Originally Posted by
ORAC
DF68, are they aviators? If you read the SNAFU! Bl*g the groundpounders are purple in the face at the flyboys using up the budget buying up what they consider a useless plastic jet at the expense of updated armoured vehicles.
1. Suggest you research the MAGTF. What you read on blogs may or may not reflect how the Marines actually operate.
2. The FY2017 budget is already in progress, and the FY2018 budget is already prepped and through both houses of Congress. As I understand it, mid to late February to be presented for signature into law.
Choice 1: Veto, and then get overridden by both houses to show this "outsider" who is boss.
Choice 2: Sign it. (I predict that his Sec Def nominee will recommend this).
Why does anyone think he'll assume the office and let himself get bitch slapped by Congress within a month? Vetoing that bill will be an own goal.