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Caught Our Eye

War hawk reaches for the sky with latest hire

Posted by LegiStorm on March 22, 2016

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has hired a decorated fighter pilot to be his new military legislative assistant.

Air Force Maj. Beau Diers, an F-16 fighter pilot, served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany, Libya and South Korea and in 2013 received the Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault Award for outstanding aerial warfare tacticians.

A third-generation pilot (Diers' grandfather flew as a civilian and his father still does), Diers graduated from Fremont (Neb.) High School in 1999 and then Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2003. He was a weapons instructor at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., before joining Cotton's staff recently.

Cotton currently chairs the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee.