Don't blame the empty suit. He is just doing his job.
In this case it is: show up and issue platitude.
We should worry about the future of the USAF:
Morin said that becoming smaller will allow the Air Force to be a high-quality and ready force, able to modernize and become more capable in the future. To do this, Air Force leaders are focused on three critical programs: the F-35 joint strike fighter, KC-46 tanker, and the long range strike bomber.
No. Sometimes becoming smaller is just that, and nothing more.
"High-quality" doesn't go with mentioning a tanker program that will probably be "OK"; a disaster in recapping fighters; and a half-billion dollar per-aircraft long range bomber-white elephant.
Fiscal disaster. Operational capability failure.
In the making.
"We are doing everything to keep them on track. As a result, we are not doing some other things we would like to do,"
Or maybe that last bit is the equal of a Vietnam War POW trying to put a duress message into the coerced propaganda statement.
