Word: airman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought. Senior Airman Danny Joe Stroud and his alleged accomplice, Airman 1st Class Brian David Roth, hadn't reckoned on Operation Punchout, a sting that ran a phony purchasing company set up by the FBI and military investigators to buy hot military gear. Along with the pricey jet engines, the sting netted a "warehouseful" of items, from canteens to jet instrumentation. Stroud, his wife Kimberly and Roth were charged with stealing the engines. They pleaded not guilty. Twelve others have also been indicted on related charges. "Many of the participants are military policemen, and we find that especially disturbing," commented...
...plane, based at K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base near Marquette, Mich., was en route from Dyess to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii on a training mission with 19 people on board, said Dyess Airman 1st Class Beverly Foster...
...Haiti on Sunday before reaching a raging fury over Jamaica on Monday. In Kingston the sky darkened and turned slate blue, as winds tore into the unprotected tropical island. Streets became rivers; trees were abruptly upended; and four out of five rooftops were ripped off. Said a U.S. airman trapped on the island: "There was no power, no water, no phones, no radio, nothing. The place was wrecked...
...first many spectators did not know what had happened. "I thought it was just some kind of special effect," said Victor Thompson, an airman stationed at Ramstein. Recalled another witness, U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant John Flanagan: "There was a second explosion and more fire, and that's when people started running, screaming. I saw this little boy just standing there. His hair was all singed, and the skin was coming off his face. Nobody was helping him. We stopped the police, and they picked...
...Hunt) is teaching sign language to her prize pupil, a chimpanzee named Virgil (beautifully played -- no kidding -- by a chimp named Willie). After two years, Virgil is shipped to an Air Force base in Florida for a top-secret experiment shepherded by Jimmy Garrett (Broderick), a bright, goof-off airman who develops the same parental bond for Virgil that Teri had. Soon Teri, the Mary Beth Whitehead of primate research, is off to Florida to steal back her chimp-child. The ensuing custody battle will involve Jimmy, the Air Force brass and a balky nuclear reactor...