Navy, Air Force defend plans to retire planes and ships - Roll Call

“While painful, it is better to accept risk today when we have the ability, compared to the future when we may not have that luxury. Through that lens, and from our perspective, these divestitures are less about what we lose and more about what we gain,” Nahom said. Well stated...we aren't fighting the same types of wars we fought in the past...need to modernize outweighs the cost of maintaining legacy systems...IMHO