Iraq Wars Strains U.S. Marine Corps Budget, Helicopters
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U.S. Marine Corps aviation is in a crisis with both heavy-lift and attack helicopters out of production and numbers beginning to fall from combat losses and hard use in Afghanistan and Iraq. "The nation has not been in prolonged combat like this since Vietnam," says Lt. Gen. Robert Magnus, deputy...
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