and air force pilot. on tuesday, a marine corps super stallion helicopter crashed in southern california killing four marines on board during that training flight. earlier that day, in the eastern african nation of gentleman beauty, a marine corps jet crashed on takeoff. in stable condition according to the marines. all in all nine combat aviation crashes alone killing nine service members. 37 u.s. service members were killed in noncombat aviation crashes. nearly double the killed 2016. congressman matt thornberry warned in an interview on wednesday he doesn t want to seat trump administration fund the national guard and additional border security with the pentagon s critical readiness dollars. quote: i fully support doing more at the border but we don t need to rob the myrtle. thornberry said in a statement. pentagon just received $700 billion as part of last month s omnibus spending
impediment between the two classes, those people who are signing up to fight our wars and those of you who enjoy our freedom. there s already a gulf and i think we need to bring it. its going to be difficult to do when you don t have to serve. when our battles are being fought in ditch ar at places many. speaking of niger. we have troops in uganda and thousand of troops in gentleman beauty, for example, but we have people in the philippines and so on. i think it s circumstances in which this gap, i think it depends to get wider overtime and in a fragrance minted and polarized sewed gets wider yet and it s extremely dangerous. the president is in this fight with a gold star widow and awards the medal today.
jon: shannon bream, thank you. um-huh. jon: new signs the obama administration may have gone after terror suspects abroad without rights to due process. it s a very controversial case and many details are still stop secret. fox news has learned authorities arrested three suspects last year in the small african nation of gentleman beauty. u.s. agencies agents say the men may have ties to operation in somalia. the lawyers spent months in jail without knowing the charges against them. now they are facing trial here in the united states. catherine herridge is live in d.c. for us. catherine, what else do we know about these suspects? well, jon, the men are alleged members of the somali terrorist group al shabaab. secret interrogations overseas only became public when documents were unsealed and men briefly appeared in brooklyn court last december. the appropriate venue is not to take somebody involved in a civil war in east africa and bring them to the eastern district of new york