52nd OMS ’72-’74

Re: KansasCrude post# 2800
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Seems a perfectly fine 3rd qtr review. Cost down and production as well but for easily explained reasons. Lower grades loaded, reduced POG, dollar rise (peso fall) and rainy season after the 2nd qtr. Over all not so super but quite good and best of all? Same damn $44 million in the bank to take on all we need and reduce cost/oz as well we do expect AND still hand us our top skim rake off 20%. I became an award winning USAF Historian in the early 70’a when as Administrative Officer ( Adjutant) in an F-4 maintenenace squadron, I both owned the big IBM Desk sized thing with spread sheet print outs and did the history. Want to know why a thing happened when? recall why the supply cost and man hours went up at the very time and tell abut it story wise. Believe or not? none had ever had the very detailed tools you need and was at the exact point when military went computerized. USAF Europe began to teach my system as military history tries hard to halt George Santyana’s edicts to avoid defeats. Lost on our current POTUS, BTW.

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Has become trite today ( the future to him) but George had a brain and knew how both to use and express it to others! 8
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