Fraz, c'mon man .... selective quoting? How about this from the same source:
Still, it was not an easy decision for the Air Force to make. Service leaders had previously pledged that they would support the C-27 program, and Schwartz said the Spartan airlifter was the last item to get cut from the service’s 2013 budget.
And it should be no surprise that 'airforce-magazine' doesn't mention that C-27J was originally a US Army system, reallocated to ANG & USAF as a result of a budget-driven p1ssing contest.
Not that I'm picking the scab of
THAT argument in the @rse-end-of-the-world setting. There are plenty of cranky threads that deal with that ...