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House panel reverses cuts in aircraft programs

June 12, 2009 The House Armed Services Air and Land Forces Subcommittee Friday unanimously approved its part of the fiscal 2010 defense authorization bill, again overruling the Pentagon to require a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and potentially slowing the process of getting the multiservice aircraft into the field. Meanwhile, ...

Lawmaker engages Army general over Medal of Honor

May 15, 2009 The U.S. military appears to have toughened its standards for bestowing the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor in battle, to exclude troops who survive their heroic acts, a California lawmaker charged Thursday. Either troops are "not as brave as they used to be, which I don't ...