The better tanker didn't win

Retired Air Force Gen. Charles Horner, who recently penned the Blowback " Boeing’s tanker tantrum," had an outstanding career in service to our country. Boeing's employees, who provide our soldiers, sailors and airmen with the products and services they need to carry out their missions, salute him and all our men and women in the military. That is why, after his distinguished career, it is all the more mystifying why Horner would dispense so much misinformation about the U.S. Air Force aerial refueling tanker competition while carrying out his duty to his employers at Northrop Grumman.

By Dan Beck

July 30, 2008