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Today the Pentagon continues to crank out deployment orders, sending additional aircraft and troops to within striking distance of Afghanistan. While numbers remained elusive, Air Force officers said they expected more than 100 planes to be sent to the region in the days to come. Beyond the deployments detailed in take 1, B-1s from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. and Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, as well as F-15s from Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, have been ordered to the region. Among the more than 5,000 reservists the Air Force have called up are crews...
...Navy, which already has three aircraft carriers and escort ships in or headed to the region, had a fourth put to sea on Friday. The USS Kitty Hawk left its port in Yokuska, Japan, for an undisclosed location, but clearly was positioned to play a role in the region if required...
...before an escalation in conflict that is barely imaginable at this point. Eight days after the terrorist attacks, President Bush told reporters he does not want Congress to reinstate the draft in order to staff the war on terrorism. That same day, the Pentagon dispatched scores of advanced aircraft to the Persian Gulf...
...airline history this week when he announced Mesa would be the first carrier in the U.S. to put its own security guards on its flights. "The airline industry is undergoing a fundamental shift and we have to consider making innovative changes," said Ornstein, who oversees an operation of 126 aircraft with 1,100 daily flights and flies flights for America West Express, US Airways Express and Midwest Express. "The industry should keep in tune with what is important to our customers and right now passengers are less concerned about traditional in-flight amenities and more concerned about safety...
Cheney also disclosed that after hijackers slammed planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon on Tuesday morning, Bush ordered the military to shoot down any commercial aircraft that disobeyed orders to turn away from Washington’s restricted air space...