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‘We missed our mark’: Next Boeing F-15EX delivery coming in November
Boeing's new timeline to deliver the next F-15EX comes nearly a year after the firm originally planned, and four months behind its revised estimate.
A U-turn, an angry president and a fateful walk to a church
At an Oval Office meeting late Monday morning, tempers were flaring. Trump and some of his senior aides wanted federal troops on the streets, and fast.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
The military is supposed to stay out of politics, but it keeps getting dragged in
President Trump's enthusiastic support of sending troops in to tamp down on protests has put the Defense Department in an uncomfortable position.
When to hold the line
The author of this commentary said he hopes the secretary of defense and Joint Chiefs chairman avoid risking further harm to the military by considering carefully any decision to deploy active-duty military to America’s streets.
By Andrew Milburn
Handling of street protests creates crisis for Pentagon boss
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is facing the most politically charged crisis of his tenure, criticized for calling protester-filled streets a military “battle space” and accused of failing to keep the military out of politics.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Trump offers ‘domination’ of DC protests as model for states
Claiming he is backed by a “silent majority,” President Donald Trump turned the nation’s capital into a model for the overwhelming force he believes critical to stop sometimes-violent protests that have spread across the country in a time of racial unrest.
By Zeke Miller, The Associated Press and Jonathan Lemire, The Associated Press
The quest to recover one Vietnam-era Air Force pilot lost in Lake Huron crash
On June 13, 1966, U.S. Air Force Maj. William J. Vinopal climbed into his Convair F-106A Delta Dart, a single-seat, flight interceptor aircraft, for a routine training mission over the lake. It would turn out to be his last flight. Now, over 50 years later, a group of veterans is on a mission to locate the wreckage and recover Vinopal’s remains.
By Dylan Gresik