On the Fact that Even Though the Pentagon Brass as Early as 1975 Considered the A-7 Subsonic Attack Plane Obsolete, Congressional Pork-Whores (the Texas Delegation In Particular as that's Where the Vought Corporation Which Manufactured the Craft Was Located) Continued to Fund the Program for Another Half-Dozen Years

The waste in the defense department is legion with this being a perfect example (the problem got much worse in the early '70s when Congressmen and Senators finally figured out that they could micromanage the procurement process and thereby bring home the bacon). Time for reform? Fucking-A, yeah.