Liberals are going to be screaming about "Big Aerospace" and Bush's corporate bedfellows.
***..........In 1986, Edward Cleveland "Pete" Aldridge was training to fly on a space shuttle as a payload specialist, or non-career astronaut, right before the Challenger explosion. His flight was scrapped after Challenger erupted in a fireball during liftoff.
A few months later, Aldridge was appointed Secretary of the Air Force under President Reagan.
Aldridge has degrees in aeronautical engineering and currently serves on Lockheed Martin Corp.'s board of directors. He retired from the Defense Department last spring after working 18 years at the Pentagon.
At the time, he was serving under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.
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I suppose to LIBERALS he's suspect because he's overqualified.