New budget documents for the three military branches that fly the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft show that none has plans to buy any additional airframes, a sign that the Pentagon isn't prioritizing growing the fleet.
Both Brown and Lyons think these efforts need to start early.
“We want to better understand how can we identify these individuals during the recruitment process so that we can screen them and prevent them from joining the military, and we want to better understand what is it about the military environment that is attractive,” Brown said.
Secretary Austin wrote this is just the first initiative. He closed his memo writing: We owe it to the oath we each took and the trust the American people have in our institution.
We asked Lyons what the consequences are if the military doesn’t root out extremism in the ranks.