Claim: Making a point about Defense Department waste, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang related a secondhand story about a Navy fighter pilot who said that airmen routinely dumped fuel into the Pacific Ocean at the end of the fiscal year as a way to preserve the following year's fuel budget. But the story doesn't add up.
Fact-check: Yang's Top-Gun Tale - FactCheck.org
Verdict: making a point about defense department waste, democratic presidential candidate andrew yang related a secondhand story about a navy fighter pilot who said that airmen routinely dumped fuel into the pacific ocean at the end of the fiscal year as a way to preserve the following year's fuel budget. but the story doesn't add up.
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Robert Farley
Date published: 2019-09-13T19:31:12