Comments on: Full Disclosure on CSAR-X

By: Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:52:15 +0000

I have friends on both sides of this debate on CSAR — they work for the competing contractors. I knew all of them at the Air Force Academy where we were either classmates or in Rich Comer’s case he was an underclassman in the same squadron. I do not believe any of them are motivated by dollars — they all believe in providing the best product for search and rescue.
Don’t be distracted from the substance of Rich’s remarks based on who he now works for.

By: rob fleming

rob fleming — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:55:29 +0000

Ladies and Gents,
I used to work for General Comer at AFSOC, I don’t believe for a minute he would do a corporate sell out to keep a job. I believe as always that he put the information out that he believed was critical for putting the best equipment in our Combat Search and Rescue crews hands. Point Blank. Look at his career…you don’t put that much sweat and blood into something and then sell it out.
Just my two cents,
Major Rob Fleming

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:09:47 +0000

Good Morning Guys,
Good work Christian. This story would be shocking if it didn’t apply to many other defense projects.
The fact that underpaid Flag Officers can jump from the Pentagon to the Defense Industry and peddle their influence with the next generation of Generals who command huge budgets that go largly unquestioned/unsupervised till it’s to late, is a major problem in the pentagon.
Maybe the Chinese PLA’s 9mm solution is the right answer for Generals like R. Comer and the Industry Executives who enticed him into this behavior they are all guilty of public corruption.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

By: Richard Comer

Richard Comer — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:29:46 +0000

Hey guys,
I wrote the letter because I think the H-47 is not the right helicopter for the need. I did work for AIC and AIC had a contract with Sikorsky. AIC got bought out and threw me over the side. They had no room for me after that, so I left and became a consultant. I have advised AIC a couple of times since, mostly on SOF and overseas business. I do not have an affiliation with Sikorsky, but I do have friends in that company–as I do in Boeing and Lockheed.
There will be plenty of Chinooks available for the high altitude missions which may come up. There will also be some V-22s, an aircaft I am on record for supporting in greater numbers. The AF rescue mission will need to deploy quickly, fit in lots of LZs and will benefit from not flying the largest, hotest, and most expensive helicopter. That’s all I said. It’s true.
Rich Comer

By: C. Foskey

C. Foskey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:51:41 +0000

Hopefully the points he makes arent completely overshadowed by the apparent conflict of interest in being objective. Though, it is hard to imagine he would have thought nobody would eventually have noticed his connection.

By: Sentinel

Sentinel — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:02:38 +0000

Wait a minute, are you telling me that blogs are peer-reviewed and respond to that review? I thought only the main stream media was capable of doing that.