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STRATCOM Chief: Air Force Will Replace Huey ‘If I Have To Die Trying’

STRATCOM Chief: Air Force Will Replace Huey ‘If I Have To Die Trying’
The Air Force wants to replace its aging UH-1N helicopter. Photo: Air Force.

OMAHA, Neb.--The Air Force will buy a new helicopter to protect its nuclear missile fields even if it kills Air Force Gen. John Hyten or he is forced to murder someone, the Strategic Command chief half-joked Aug 1."We’re going to get a new helicopter if have to die trying, or kill somebody to do it,” Hyten said Wednesday at STRATCOM’s 2018 Deterrence Symposium here. “We are going to get a new helicopter."The program to replace aging U.S. Air Force UH-1N…

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