Senate Appropriates Committee conferees, who today secured funding for 10 additional C-17 airlifters, are to be commended for recognizing the inadvisability of terminating the production line of the Nation's only highly capable, heavy-lift transport aircraft.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Victory on the C-17, but concerns remain

They panicked at year-end 2008, closing down assembly lines and terminating tens of thousands of production workers of long seniority.

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