Wicker Prepares Amendment That Would Freeze Air Force Intra-Theater Force Structure Changes

By Gabe Starosta / June 11, 2013 at 3:04 PM
A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee has drawn up an amendment to the panel's fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill that would freeze some force structure changes proposed by the Air Force and already approved by Congress until next summer. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services airland subcommittee, described the amendment during the subcommittee's brief mark-up session this morning. The amendment would prevent the "transfer, conveyance or divestment" of any Air Force...

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