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Troy Meink: “The challenges we've had with building on infrastructure…”

Featuring: Troy Meink, Secretary of the Air Force | National

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The State of the DAF | 2025 Air, Space & Cyber Conference

Published | Video Starts at 22:58

In many cases we fight from our facilities both on the Air Force and Space Force side of the house. And I think The challenges we've had with building on infrastructure, the high cost you pay in the long schedules from a military construction perspective has been a huge challenge. But I'm seeing a lot of innovation. I got an opportunity to go out to the basically fly which was super fun fly in the back of a C130 out of Guam across Tinian to Saipan at a couple hundred feet, hanging out the back. (22:58–23:07)

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Asserts that military construction faces challenges due to high costs and long schedules.

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