As lawmakers and Pentagon officials debate whether the overseas contingency operations budget is being used as a "slush fund," Air Force mishap numbers appear to support the service's request to buy 12 MQ-9 Reapers using wartime funds. In a July 21 email to Inside the Air Force , service spokeswoman Jennifer Cassidy said 96 MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers have been destroyed in domestic and overseas operations since 2001. An additional 28 MQ-1s and MQ-9s were destroyed in training or...
