History
The department has suffered many problems in aircraft acquisition over the years.
- 2003: Darleen Druyun rigged plan to lease Boeing tankers.
- 2011: Department sends KC-X evaluations to wrong companies.
- 2012: Error in paperwork requires Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance to be rebid.
Read more about this topic: United States Department Of The Air Force
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)