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Air Force Is Sending Brand New Cargo Planes Straight to the Boneyard

"The notion of stashing brand new cargo planes in storage alongside thousands of dead aircraft is sad, but it's sort of everybody's fault. Since 2007, the Air Force has spent some $567 million acquiring the new aircraft—only to realize, in the wake of sequestration cuts, that it actually didn't have enough missions for the planes to fly. This was around the same time that President Barack Obama told the airmen at Mansfield National Guard Base in Ohio, one of the homes of the C-27J fleet, that he would 'find a mission' for the planes. Well, he didn't, and now they're going to be rotting in a desert, perhaps forever."