@HardhatHank · 13 Jan 2026 · 17:20
We built those planes. We sold them those planes. We maintain those planes — at OUR cost, on OUR computers, for THIRTY YEARS.
Now they want the planes without us. Doesn't work that way. Never did. They just never had to think about it before.
Two days earlier he had told reporters he knew nothing about it and to ask the Air Force.
Genuine question and not a gotcha: who buys the next batch?
I have spent thirty-one years welding things that get sold overseas. If the customer finds out the switch is in Texas, the customer buys French next time. That is my pension you are negotiating with.
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