Communities, including Oshkosh, brace for looming defense cuts

Bridget Lauderdale remembers the broad green sea -- in the parking lot. The Lockheed Martin executive was two years out of her internship when then-Defense secretary Dick Cheney killed the A-12 bomber. On Jan. 7, 1991, a unit of General Dynamics (the division is now part of Lockheed) responded by firing 4,000 workers here, in a one-day swoop as devastating as a bomber run. Full Story: Post Crescent