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Article: Air Force argues for more money.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 11, 2008
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Byline: Gordon Lubold Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Washington -- In the Pentagon's emerging budget wars, the military service perceived to be playing one of the smallest roles in the war on terrorism now says it's in danger of breaking and needs billions of dollars more than the other services to stay whole.
The Air Force, after years of maintaining older airplanes without buying new ones, says it must be allowed to modernize or America risks losing air dominance around the world.
Five years of war in Iraq has worn down the ground forces and focused attention on the need to rebuild the Army and Marine Corps for those kinds of ...
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