Army Defers Boeing Chinooks in Budget Until Later Wish List

The U.S. Army is leaving out Boeing Co.’s upgraded Chinooks from its official fiscal 2022 budget request.

Instead, service leaders say money for the helicopters will be included in a separate wish list sent to Congress later.

For two years in a row, the congressional defense committees rejected U.S. Army plans to curtail its Boeing Chinook CH-47 Block II program—an upgraded standard model of the workhorse helicopter used for transporting troops, supplies, and artillery to the battlefield.

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