The House Armed Services Committee voted 32 to 25 to send to the full House its bill (H.R. 3159) to provide a minimum time period between deployments to Iraq for both active and reserve forces. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) introduced the measure, which parallels an amendment tacked onto the now-deferred Senate version of the 2008 defense authorization bill. In a joint statement with Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), Tauscher said that the current strategy of “multiple back-to-back deployments has stretched our military and is breaking our all-volunteer force.”
The last remaining T-1 Jayhawk at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, took its final flight to the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on July 15. The 99th Flying Training Squadron will train pilots using T-6 and simulator until it gets T-7 Red Hawk in fiscal 2026.