Official: F-35 Basing Unlikely To Be Included In Milcon Funds Pulled For National Emergency

Hill Air Force Base F-35As fly in formation over the Utah Test and Training Range, March 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

A senior Pentagon official Friday called future basing for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter a high priority unlikely to be included in cuts to the department’s military construction fund for use toward wall construction on the southern border, adding funds will be pulled from from areas that would have “minimal impact.” Officials, speaking to reporters Friday before briefing Congress later in the afternoon, said Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is currently in a weeks-long assessment process to determine how $6…

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Official: F-35 Basing Unlikely To Be Included In Milcon Funds Pulled For National Emergency

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