Posted on Apr 8, 2015
Would you rather see old war planes re-used (scrapped), mothballed, or used like this?
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There is something else, I didn't think of when I first saw this. Every plane, tank, and ship that has ever been produced for the military has a story. People have fought, bled, died, loved, beaten, hated, nurtured, and slaved over these pieces of equipment.
Turning it into art gives it another chance at life in the form it is in now.
Turning it into a museum celebrates the stories that come with the plane, ship, tank, etc.
Recycling it lets it be re-incarnated into something useful again
Mothballing it is an insult to all who have been attached to that item. It says we don't care about your blood sweat and tears, we are going to hang onto this Vietnam Era attack plane in the event that we decide we are going to bring it back for the sequel.
Outside of transport planes, I highly doubt that any plane in the boneyard is ever going to see the skies ever again.
When I grew up on Kwajalein we always had the military PSA's on AFRTS. One of them was the Fraud Waste and Abuse hotline. I fully agree with PO1 (Join to see) keeping these boneyards is a huge instance of FWA
Turning it into art gives it another chance at life in the form it is in now.
Turning it into a museum celebrates the stories that come with the plane, ship, tank, etc.
Recycling it lets it be re-incarnated into something useful again
Mothballing it is an insult to all who have been attached to that item. It says we don't care about your blood sweat and tears, we are going to hang onto this Vietnam Era attack plane in the event that we decide we are going to bring it back for the sequel.
Outside of transport planes, I highly doubt that any plane in the boneyard is ever going to see the skies ever again.
When I grew up on Kwajalein we always had the military PSA's on AFRTS. One of them was the Fraud Waste and Abuse hotline. I fully agree with PO1 (Join to see) keeping these boneyards is a huge instance of FWA
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Well thanks to modern technology, these pieces can be thoroughly documented, reenacted, have relics built in their name, etc... but how much of this 'history' should we pile-up? When enough is enough? I say if you can't figure what to do with those parts in, say 1 year time span, thoroughly document it, take pictures, and on to recycling mill.
No offense to all hard work, blood, sweat, and tears poured into it, but we still need to manage that ever-increasing stack full of 'memories'.
No offense to all hard work, blood, sweat, and tears poured into it, but we still need to manage that ever-increasing stack full of 'memories'.
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Agree that we really don't need some P-51s anymore, but we should keep some of the analog equipment around. In the advent of an EMP most of the military's hardware will cease to operate
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I think once there is no hope for an aircraft to be refurbished and utilized again it should be used in the manner like the picture above. Personally, I love looking at our history-machines we used in the past. Being on Fort Bragg with aircrafts everywhere it's touching and gives me more pride serving in the 82nd and the US Army. I think putting them in a "boneyard" is a waste especially if we know it will never be gutted or utilized again.
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Air Force bases are full of "Jetsicles"
I think every city should get at least two.
I think every city should get at least two.
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