The military aircraft accident rate has jumped significantly in the past year and Sen. John McCain has said it’s the natural result of years of penny pinching with the military. “Perhaps the greatest harm to our national security and our military is self-inflicted. I repeat self-inflicted,” McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said earlier this year on the senate floor. “We are killing more of our own people in training than our enemies are in combat.”
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