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Doug Roach, Longtime HASC Staffer, Dies

Julie Samuel

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

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Doug Roach, a longtime House Armed Services Committee (HASC) staffer who kept weapons-program officials on their toes, died last Friday in Washington. He was 70. Roach, the staff lead for the HASC’s Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee and a retired Air Force colonel, was a keen overseer of large Pentagon weapons programs who was well-known in defense and media circles. In recent years he devoted considerable energy to the debate over whether to keep the Pentagon’s now-canceled alternate-engine program for…

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