Eglin AFB gets money for F-35 project, but another could be delayed by border wall

Defense News: The push to make President Donald Trump’s dreams of a U.S-Mexico border wall a reality has called a handful of military construction projects into question, but at least one of the two projects at Eglin Air Force Base centered around F-35 training has been cleared for takeoff.

The Air Force on Tuesday allocated funding for Eglin to build a new dormitory for students learning to maintain the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Defense News learned during a Feb. 26 trip to the base.

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