It was a classic case of suspense that wasn't brought to closure until their hands went up. |
That has proven to be the difference from having to scramble from scratch to having a prepared program. If we had started from zero, we never would have caught up. |
That is what opened the door and drove us to be insistent that there was more to the story than what the Air Force said. |
The thing that really came out was, both bases were very competitive and had strengths. But they were going to spend $300 million to reallocate bombers and end up with no significant increase in operational capacity. |
We'll put our best foot forward. We feel very capable of taking that mission. |