Built for war, Air Force units reap peace
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By getting damaged air bases up and running, rapid-deployment groups expedite the flow of disaster aid.
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It is headquarters for the allied military effort in Afghanistan. But it's almost possible at Bagram Air Base to forget the war going on outside the wire.
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Airmen at Ramstein Air Base have waited nearly 48 years for a new enlisted club.
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By Tim Sheehan, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 7--Bill Oefelein fondly recalls his days flying attack jets at Lemoore Naval Air Station in the early 1990s.
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The military is refocusing spending from its vision of a transformed fighting force to the more down-to-earth needs of its ground troops because of rising war costs and a stubborn budget deficit.
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The U.S. Air Force quietly has put  into service a new weapon designed to jam enemy satellite  communications, a significant step toward U.S. control of  space.
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AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar, Dec. 11 -- In an effort to reduce the amount of military cargo hauled in vulnerable ground convoys across Iraq, the U.S. Air Force has begun airlifting much larger quantities of materiel to bases around the country.
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The military's reliance on unmanned aircraft that can watch, hunt and sometimes kill insurgents has soared to more than 500,000 hours in the air, largely in Iraq
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It was a mistake, the Air Force says -- and the public was never in danger. But nevertheless, a B-52 armed with six nuclear warheads flew for more than three hours last week across several states. They meant to take the warheads off the missiles before they mounted them under the wings, but somebody goofed. A commander is fired over the incident.
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THE Thai military turned to the power of origami yesterday in its attempt to bring peace to the countryâs restive south. Air force planes dropped 100 million paper birds over the area, where fighting between
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By ANDREW DRAKE FORWARD OPERATING BASE ORGUN-E, Afghanistan - When the thunder of the power generators eases to a rumble, Spc. Brandon Begley heads for an echoing hangar on this U.S. outpost near the Pakistan border and sets up his electric organ.
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Thirty U.S. Air Force members from Europe arrived Thursday in Kigali, Rwanda, to prepare for a two-week airlift mission of Rwandan peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Even as the first bunch of the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft have arrived in Iraq, the Air Force still thinks the current gun isn't good enough for battle
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The deadly attacks against U.S.  forces on Iraqi highways have prompted the Air Force to  increase its use of aircraft to carry supplies to American  troops on the most dangerous routes.
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On the military plane that crossed the ocean at night, the wounded lay in stretchers stacked three high. The drone of engines was broken by the occasional sound of moaning. Sedated and sleeping, Pfc. Joshua Calloway was at the top of one stack last September. Unlike the others around him, Calloway...
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A US military unit that wouldn't make a risky delivery poses a challenge to discipline.
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The US Air Force grounds 30 of its C-130 aircraft over cracks in the wings, days after a British plane crashed in Iraq.