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“the Committee on Armed Services has received a request from the Secretary of the Air Force seeking access to records of the Committee relating to the Committee's consideration of the 1972 nomination of MG John D. Lavelle to retire at the rank of lieutenant general. That nomination was not confirmed. In 2010, the President nominated Major General Lavelle to be posthumously advanced on the retired list to the rank of general. After the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee requested further information regarding that nomination, the Air Force initiated an independent review of Major General Lavelle's case. That review is being led by the Honorable William H. Webster. The Secretary of the Air Force requests that Judge Webster and those assisting him in the independent review be granted access to the Committee's executive session documents relating to the 1972 Lavelle nomination. The Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee would like to be able to cooperate with this request by providing access to those conducting this independent review to the requested committee records. This resolution would authorize the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Armed Services, acting jointly, to provide records, under appropriate security procedures, from the Committee's 1972 consideration of the Lavelle nomination to those conducting the independent review of Major General Lavelle's case on behalf of the Air Force.”