I think one thing you all are forgetting about is the politically laden procurement aspect of this. I think the military is scared if they buy some of these there would have been/will be less justification to buy and/or keep F-16/AH-64/AH-1Z/AV-8/F-35's. I actually think they are justified to a degree in that fear since it would certainly be used by many to justify less of the more capable aircraft, the numbers would be the same but look at all the money we saved! After that it becomes a death spiral with people pointing to the fact we aren't using those nice F fighters like the F-22 so why not cut more? Soon enough we are left with a whole lot of turboprops that aren't much use outside the current war we are in right now and rapidly pulling out of.
It is the same reason that the Navy was so adamantly opposed to the 'Sea Control Ship' and probably why the USAF was so dead set against the C-27J. It is a niche aircraft that couldn't be used in any sort conflict with any credible threat. And before you say that we haven't faced that sort of thing too often recently may I point out that sort of environment is what we faced includes OAF, Desert Storm, Libya, the initial stages of OIF, ONW, OSW and possibly Syria soon. The Super T would not have been able to be used in any of them while all of our fighters, bombers and in many cases attack helos were.
Then you're saying there is little integrity in the procurement process or the service bosses who drive it. If the services will not do the right things, then why should anyone expect integrity from the politicians? IOW, the republic is halfway down the shitter and no one can expect better in the future/ Maybe Jihad Johnny knows something we don't. Maybe we deserve whatever we get. Just ideas for possible discussion.