Thanks for your service, and keep up the good work. I think the issue for the lay-people back on the homefront is that it looks like using a $3500 elephant gun to pick off gray squirrels on a bird feeder, when a $50 pellet gun would suffice. I know that is a gross oversimplification, but when people see the numbers…

I think his point is that there must be a lower-tech, significantly cheaper option than using a B-1 bomber for this purpose. E.g., a Super Tucano or Beechcraft AT-6B (my preference). To the extent, though, the intention is to place no U.S. pilot in harm’s way, the B-1 may be the best available option. The question…

War profiteering. We need a Harry Truman in Congress to root this out.