A former Army secretary and a retired Air Force general were named Wednesday to a new commission investigating a recent rash of deadly military aircraft crashes, the House Armed Services Committee announced.

Pete Geren and Gen. Raymond Johns, who headed the service’s Air Mobility Command, are among four commissions who will sit on the National Commission on Military Aviation Safety.

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