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Turner Advocates Boosting Homeland Missile Defense

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

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A congressman who will draft part of the Pentagon policy bill in the coming weeks said yesterday he is concerned the administration is disproportionally funding European missile defense at the expense of the U.S. missile shield. Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee, said yesterday he wants to increase funding for Boeing’s [BA] Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) homeland missile-defense effort, which has suffered two missile interceptor test failures. “I’m concerned enough (about the failed tests)…

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