The Air Force's top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on "comfort capsules" to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved in design details such as the color of the capsules' carpet and leather chairs ... Air Force officials say the government needs the new capsules to ensure that leaders can talk, work and rest comfortably in the air.The idea of making our "civilian leaders" more comfortable as they look into the wars that they expose our military guys to is just wrong. I say let them sweat. And with lower level GIs on the ground being "stop-lossed" into 2 or 3 tours of duty, I have no problem with military generals having to "rought it out" now and then.
With record budget deficits spending $16.2 million on "comfort capsules" is just nuts.
You can read the story here, in the Washington Post (there may be a registration wall).
- Mark
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