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Dispersal: SAC's and TAC's bases are overconcentrated, present big targets to Soviet air and missile power. Item: SAC's March AFB at Riverside, Calif, has 90 6-475 and 40 KC-97 tankers, and only one usable runway to get them all into the air come an emergency. The USAF needs six more bases right now, another 100 as soon as Tommy White can get them...
...slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks and loan companies to cover them...
Last week, in Second Air Force Headquarters at Barksdale AFB (Shreveport. La.), Captain French, career officer in the U.S. Air Force, went on trial before a general court martial. The charge against him: violation of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by attempting to communicate national-defense information to a foreign power. French pleaded not guilty, listened while a military lawyer pleaded that he had been a good Air Force officer, had no Communist affiliations or beliefs. But at the end of the four-day trial. Captain George French's biggest gamble went against...
...HARRIS SLOTIN, U.S.A.F. Sampson AFB...