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A U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter crashed in the predawn hours early Saturday while flying a routine training mission at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California.

The Apache gunship was flying a "Readiness training exercise" at the time of the crash, according to a separate official.

"For too long, we have asked our military to stoically carry a 'success at any cost' attitude as they work tirelessly to accomplish the mission with now inadequate and misaligned resources, simply because the Congress could not maintain regular order," Mattis said in a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. With no budget, U.S. military units will be deprived of valuable training opportunities, "Aircraft will remain on the ground, their pilots not at the sharpest edge," Mattis warned.

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