The POGO Watercooler » Air Force http://pogowatercooler.org Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:38:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Three R’s at the Air Force? http://pogowatercooler.org/2008/10/01/three-rs-at-the-air-force/ http://pogowatercooler.org/2008/10/01/three-rs-at-the-air-force/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:35:01 +0000 michael http://blog.pogowatercooler.org/?p=40 I belong to one of the first generations where environmental consciousness was taught–I knew never to use an aerosol can, and learned about the greenhouse effect in my catechism classes (and I’m a Roman Catholic from the Midwest, not some Berkley hippie like Smallberg).  Our three R’s (and since we’re a more progressive generation, everything really does start with “R”) were Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

 

The Air Force isn’t at the forefront of green thinking, but they are starting to get into the act.  In January, Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee won a recycling award, and a press release yesterday shows that they’re seeing the value of “Reuse”.  Now if only they would learn to reduce troubled programs like the F-22…

 

– Mandy Smithberger

]]> http://pogowatercooler.org/2008/10/01/three-rs-at-the-air-force/feed/ 0 Watercooler Quote of the Day: 9/19/08 http://pogowatercooler.org/2008/09/19/watercooler-quote-of-the-day-91908/ http://pogowatercooler.org/2008/09/19/watercooler-quote-of-the-day-91908/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:21 +0000 michael http://blog.pogowatercooler.org/?p=36 “We are an ‘insight’ organization.  If DoD customers ask us for information, we will provide that information as requested.”

- Richard Cole, spokesman for the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), in response to allegations that the DCMA improperly assisted Lockheed Martin and the Air Force in their efforts to undermine then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s decision to terminate the C-130J program

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