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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Air Force Leaders Detail Force Cuts

A-10C Thunderbolt IIAir Force leaders detailed future force cuts and defended the service's religious accommodation practices after coming under attack from conservative lawmakers at a congressional budget hearing Friday.

When presenting the fiscal 2015 budget request and the Future Years Defense Program last week, the Air Force announced that it wants to eliminate the entire A-10 close air support fleet and the U-2 spy plane fleet, and significantly reduce the number of F-15 and F-16 fighters, and MQ-1 drones, because of budget constraints imposed by Congress.

Pentagon leaders want to use the resulting savings to invest in modernization and readiness.

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