On a local radio show this morning the brigadier general in charge of the Y2K remediation for the USAF declared we are 100% ready in our mission critical systems. He said there are about 320 mission critical systems and 2200 non-mission critical systems. All but 8 of the non-mission critical systems are also ready. He also mentioned the AF has been working on this "in earnest" for about 18 months. This must be the IT success story of all time, since the military has about 37% of all the systems in use by the Federal government.

Say, he wouldn't be fibbing would he, because he thinks that maybe our enemys are listening in? I know he would tell the truth to his fellow Americans!

-- Kevin Lemke (klemke@corpcomm.net), December 02, 1999

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Well, maybe he would -- and maybe he wouldn't. If the interview were being broadcast, I think I'd stick with Sun Tzu's (sp?) advice: Your enemy should always overestimate your weaknesses and underestimate your strengths.

-- The Whistler (I'm Here, I'm There, I'm Everywhere@so.beware), December 02, 1999.

That's not the same story my in-laws say ..... off the record. And they have worked in the systems business over there.

But you never know - this general - who depends on his future promotions for support from the Clintons' administration - might be correct......and might not be influenced by political pressure. After all, everybody knows that only the "right-wing terrorists, fear-mongers and profiteers from hoarding" have a stake in this affair.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 02, 1999.

Isn't this the same Air Force that was hitting mobile Scud launchers right and left in Desert Storm not too long ago? Gee, if they played fast and loose with the truth then, the certainity that they can be counted on to give "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" is what?

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-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), December 03, 1999.