Navy accelerates F-14 retirement

The U.S. Navy has decided to shave three years off the projected service life of its F-14 strike fighters, retiring the last of the planes in 2007. The Navy leadership has "reduced our life and they're trying to get us out of the inventory now in 2007," Capt. Ted Carson, who coordinates F-14...

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