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Just a quick follow-up to the previous posting on the skyrocketing American casualties in Iraq. The Air Force is requesting $50 billion in emergency funding—that’s an amount nearly half of its normal budget. The branch has been stretched by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there’s another reason it needs more cash:
Another source familiar with the Air Force plans said the extra funds would help pay to transport growing numbers of U.S. soldiers being killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
