Gen. Schwartz is GANGSTER

I typically rush to judgment and I know it's still early in the game, but early reports are showing that Sec. Gates has the Midas touch. After sackign Moseley and Wynne, it looks like putting Gen. Norton Schwartz at the helm of the world's greatest Air and Space Force has been a stroke of genius.

You have to love how Norty decided to use the AFA to go Suge Knight on some punk ass retired generals:

What I think we need to avoid is to have Americans believe that their military leadership can be bought

I also think that sending pilots straight to UAV training before UPT is the right call, but I'm pissed that their bringing officers in off the line to fly UAVs. I missed that boat. It would be like playing video games all day for work--I was already a pro at doing that while I was in the Air Force.

Finally, I think his move to blues on Mondays was just the economic stimulus package needed by AAFES...more on uniforms later.

Schwartz was given the mandate for change and he's chosen to take the ball and run with it. Asa an organization clearly in need of an identity alteration, things are looking up in the early going.