Leahy pressures Air Force to base F-35 in VT
By George Nichols, E Maj. USAF
September 3, 2013
Notes from today’s phone conversation between Senator Leahy and General Welsh
- Senator Leahy opened with casual conversation and wanted to be a little more “Parochial” concerning F-35
- He strongly supports F-35 in Vermont. Tiny vocal minority that is against it. He has received over 200 letters from the group; however, he has over 13,000 signatures for it
- He strongly urges the Air Force to not delay the RoD in light of rumor that there would be a two year delay for Ops 3 (ANG)
- He understands the rational of splitting the decision into two RoDs, one for Active Duty and one for ANG but asks for little or no delay in the two RoDs
