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General: Air Force might ‘have to stop flying’ for six weeks

By Joel Gehrke
Published March 29, 2017 10:21pm ET
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General: Air Force might ‘have to stop flying’ for six weeks
Air Force budgets don't have the money to pay for any U.S. pilots to fly. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) | Mindaugas Kulbis

Air Force budgets don’t have the money to pay for any U.S. pilots to fly in the last six weeks of the fiscal year, a top general warned Congress.

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