Senate Bolsters Military With Extra C-17s, F/A-18s

The Senate has passed a $264.7-billion defense appropriations bill for Fiscal 2000, approving multiyear procurement of 60 more C-17 airlifters, advance procurement of six F/A-18E/Fs and the purchase of an array of 15 additional helicopters. In an appropriations measure that is $1.4 billion higher...

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