The military's four-star transportation chief today said he would prefer keeping Boeing's C-17 production line "warm" after the final Globemaster is built -- giving the Air Force "insurance" if the service is unable to keep an ample number of C-5 airlifters flying. "If there is a decision to curtail the production of C-17 at 180, one has to seriously consider ways to hedge that by curtailing production in a way that doesn't foreclose ways to walk the dog back if...
