In the category of "What's another $68 million in the scheme of things" category.
The Chapel at the USAF Academy was supposed to be renovated, at the cost of $68 million, beginning this year. However, after Hurricane Michael leveled Tyndall AFB, it's going to cost at least $3 billion to fix that base. So the USAF has pulled "maintenance money" from this and other projects to get started on fixing Tyndall.
It is a pretty cool building. Sunday church service was mandatory when I got the the Academy in 1972 until the Supreme Court put a stop to that. A lot of cadets still went there for church services, and a lot of us got married there. It seems like fixing water leaks and corrosion would be important. (A stitch in time saves nine.) Goodness knows the USAF has more infrastructure than they need given the number of airplanes and personnel these days, but having three USAF bases in the Florida panhandle (Hurlburt, Eglin, and Tyndall) must be a priority to someone.
But gosh, for less than the cost of a single F-35, they could fix the poor place up.
https://gazette.com/military/air-force-academy-chapel-renovation-canceled-in-favor-of-hurricane/article_e1305930-50b0-11e9-a09a-d71c11922eb4.html
"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.
The Chapel at the USAF Academy was supposed to be renovated, at the cost of $68 million, beginning this year. However, after Hurricane Michael leveled Tyndall AFB, it's going to cost at least $3 billion to fix that base. So the USAF has pulled "maintenance money" from this and other projects to get started on fixing Tyndall.
It is a pretty cool building. Sunday church service was mandatory when I got the the Academy in 1972 until the Supreme Court put a stop to that. A lot of cadets still went there for church services, and a lot of us got married there. It seems like fixing water leaks and corrosion would be important. (A stitch in time saves nine.) Goodness knows the USAF has more infrastructure than they need given the number of airplanes and personnel these days, but having three USAF bases in the Florida panhandle (Hurlburt, Eglin, and Tyndall) must be a priority to someone.
But gosh, for less than the cost of a single F-35, they could fix the poor place up.
https://gazette.com/military/air-force-academy-chapel-renovation-canceled-in-favor-of-hurricane/article_e1305930-50b0-11e9-a09a-d71c11922eb4.html
"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.
