Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Officially Named MV-75 Cheyenne II
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> Consistent with the U.S. Army tradition of honoring Native American tribes
The Continental Army enlisted Native Americans to fight alongside them against the British, and then once war ended, slaughtered them, took their lands and drove the remaining survivors to the parts of the country we cared about the least. At least we can honor them by naming our future tools of war after them.
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