Measures Would Award Promotions to Tuskegee Airman and Last Doolittle Raider

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Measures Would Award Promotions to Tuskegee Airman and Last Doolittle Raider
11 Jul 2019
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk

House lawmakers have introduced legislative amendments to promote two military pilots who made great contributions to aerial battles during World War II.

Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, and Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, recently created an amendment to the Fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization legislation that would posthumously promote Richard "Dick" Cole from lieutenant colonel to colonel.
 
Cole, who died in April at age 103, was the last surviving Doolittle Raider and flew alongside then-Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolittle. The raid was famously named after Doolittle, who led 16 B-25 bombers and 80 crew members from the aircraft carrier Hornet in the western Pacific on a strike targeting factories and military installations in and around Tokyo on April 18, 1942.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/11/measures-would-award-promotions-tuskegee-airman-and-last-doolittle-raider.html

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Measures Would Award Promotions to Tuskegee Airman and Last Doolittle Raider
11 Jul 2019
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk

House lawmakers have introduced legislative amendments to promote two military pilots who made great contributions to aerial battles during World War II.

Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, and Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, recently created an amendment to the Fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization legislation that would posthumously promote Richard "Dick" Cole from lieutenant colonel to colonel.
 
Cole, who died in April at age 103, was the last surviving Doolittle Raider and flew alongside then-Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolittle. The raid was famously named after Doolittle, who led 16 B-25 bombers and 80 crew members from the aircraft carrier Hornet in the western Pacific on a strike targeting factories and military installations in and around Tokyo on April 18, 1942.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/11/measures-would-award-promotions-tuskegee-airman-and-last-doolittle-raider.html

Kinda late for a promotion,ain't it?

Call me a Kill Joy if you want,but doesn't Congress have better/more productive things to do with it's time than have members get their names in the news by promoting meaningless crap like this?