Basically, the planes are great and would be very useful, but the Pentagon claimed that they were too much of a luxury and that the Pentagon could not afford them. The article also provides the reason as to why the construction of these planes cannot be cancelled. According to the Air Force spokesman Darryl Mayer, "they are too near completion for a termination to be cost effective and other government agencies have requested the aircraft". The cargo planes are important to our military, and it is wasteful for the Pentagon to decide that they can't afford them after they have already been nearly completed, so they should not just be being shipped off to Air Force bases where they will just sit there unused.
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