During the early 2000s, the USAF fumbled several high profile aircraft procurement projects, such as the missteps on the KC-X program. Winslow Wheeler has written that this pattern represents "failures of intellect and – much more importantly – ethics." As a result, the USAF fleet is setting new records for average aircraft age and needs to replace its fleets of fighters, bombers, airborne tankers, and airborne warning aircraft, in an age of restrictive defense budgets. Finally in the midst of scandal and failure in maintaining its nuclear arsenal, the civilian and military leaders of the air force were replaced in 2008. COUNT 3
QSN1 When did the USAF have several missteps of aircraft procurement projects?  ANS1 early 2000s QSN2 Who wrote that these aircraft procurement projects were a failure of intellect and ethics? ANS2 Winslow Wheeler QSN3 When were the military leaders replaced after a scandal over failure to maintain its nuclear arsenal?  ANS3 2008