Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
It's worth the read even if you have to sign up for it just to read
the story.

From today's New York Times.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 Four years after the Coast Guard began an effort to
replace nearly its entire fleet of ships, planes and helicopters, the
modernization program heralded as a model of government innovation is
foundering.

http://tinyurl.com/yzoddj

absolutely unconscionable. the people at CG stations are already having
to fight the aging fleets and bad equipment...now to place their lives
in danger in this manner...

HP got ****ed when they spied on a few executives. you'd think lockheed
would get a similar ****ing for dicking around with national security
and the safety of coast guard crews.