Gates Ratchets Up Rhetoric Against Split Tanker Buy
In case anyone on Capitol Hill thought Defense Secretary Robert Gates was softening his position against splitting the Air Force KC-X tanker buy between two contractors, he made himself clear last week. “I am laying my body down across the tracks” to avoid it, he told an audience at the Air War...
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