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And Kevin McCarthy faces pressure to punish Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of Lt. Gen. Chuck Wald by bringing readers to America's start of air operations in Afghanistan.

With the conclusion of American involvement in Vietnam, Wald returned to the U.S. He attended Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala., and, after graduation, he was promoted to captain. Wald was stationed at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, Calif., to serve as a project officer for the Operations Systems Engineering Branch. In August 1978, Wald's next assignment was to be an F-15A aircraft instructor and flight commander for the 22nd Tactical Fighter Squadron at Bitburg Air Base in West Germany and, on Oct. 24, 1980, he was promoted to major. In 1981, he ...

now and had promised to get benefits forever and oppose any benefit change. so i think you really have to look at the budget in discreet pieces and say, what are you going to do about the hollowing out that's already occurring because of all of the money we have to spend on benefits? so i think it's a more complicated subject and i don't think it's one sequestering will solve. i think it's one that maybe is going to take a couple of years to solve until people like wald and jones and the people like that stand up and say, hey, you know, we're spending too much money on benefits. >> m...

alliance approach which has us in, isaf, until the end of 2014. you can make all kind of contributions. combat troop contributions. train and assist kinds of contributions. you can make other kinds of contributions, right? we'll have a discussion with the french about where they want to go on this, but the key concept here, though, is, again, despite the specific nature of the contribution, despite the national decision you might make about pace of withdrawal or timing, you are a member of the alliance, all-in, in together, out together as an alliance in a general fashion. >> we shou...