[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3933]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            SUPPORT THE B-2

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, today we are going to have a vote on the B-2 
amendment. That is a question of whether or not we are going to have 
this tremendous aircraft in our inventory in numbers in excess of 20.
  As my colleagues know, during Vietnam we lost about 2,300 fixed-wing 
aircraft to SAM missiles. Those were the surface-to-air missiles that 
the Russians were proliferating to their friends around the world and 
are still proliferating to their friends. A SAM missile took down Scot 
O'Grady a few months ago in Bosnia when he was flying his high-
performance F-16 aircraft.
  If we turn down the B-2 today, it is going to be the first time the 
American people have decided to send their young pilots out in aircraft 
that are not the very, very best that this Nation can provide. Support 
the B-2. Our troops need it.

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