S.Amdt. 3824

SA 3824. Mr. BUDD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3748 proposed by Mr. Wicker (for himself and Mr. Reed) to
the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In section 136 of title I of division A, strike subsection
(a) and insert the following:
(a) In General.--Section 9062(l)(1) of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by striking ``During'' and all that
follows through ``retire more than 68 F-15E aircraft;'' and
inserting ``The Secretary of the Air Force may not--
``(A)(i) retire any F-15E aircraft during the period
beginning on the date of the enactment of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 and ending on
September 30, 2026; and
``(ii) retire more than 54 F-15E aircraft beginning on
October 1, 2026, of which the Secretary may not retire more
than 24 during the period beginning on October 1, 2026 and
ending on September 30, 2027;''.
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