[ARC5] Military Procurement

[Brian]

Hello Wayne,

Thanks for the 'women muck up, too', observation.

And of course, these women you name had final sign-off on WWII purchase 
decisions. They probably weren't even born then.

Perhaps you missed my point about the male chauvinistic product designs the 
military purchased around WWII - which are the sets we started this thread 
with, eg, the S-38 and its clones.

73 de Brian, VK2GCE.

On Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:56 AM , Wayne said:

"name just one recent female military purchasing executive."

I could name a number, but one was Darleen Durhan, who was head of the Air 
Force Acquisition at the Pentagon during the latter part of the Clinton 
Admin.  She implemented a number of procurement "reforms" that mostly proved 
to be disastrous and the ended up in jail because she was found to be 
cutting a secret deal with Boeing to get hired by the company after she left 
government service.

We also have had a couple of Secretary of the Air Force who were female, 
including the current one.

Wayne