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...Sept. 3 issue you carried an excellent account of what an airman must go through to get married to a Japanese girl in Japan. Since the war, over 5,000 of us have had to wade through the same red tape . . . You have struck upon an extremely interesting story, but you left out a recent FEC directive when you talked of the red tape...
Some correspondents, after talking to U.N. pilots, were convinced that a new Red jet had made its debut-either a beefed-up MIG-15 or a new-model MIG. The U.S. Air Force did its best to squelch such speculations. Improved Red air tactics, said a high-ranking U.S. airman ("It's only logical to assume they've held exhaustive critiques on our tactics"), could give the mistaken impression that the Reds are flying better planes...
...Force calls its swift missile the "Matador," the airman's latest argument in the debate over close ground support. With it, the U.S. Air Force has the first operational pilotless missile which can plant an atomic bomb in support of U.S. troops in the field...
...Service Medal for the past three years as head of the Air University, then added another medal, the Legion of Merit, for his service (1946) as senior U.S. member on the United Nations Military Staff Committee. From Secretary of Defense General George C. Marshall came a personal letter. Said Airman Kenney, World War I combat pilot and one of the last of his breed on active duty in the Air Force: "I don't know what I'm going to do or where I'm going to be. But if you hear anybody...
Finally, "fully cognizant of the responsibility of marriage," the groom presents "evidence of military approval to officiating authority before marriage ceremony is performed." Then, if he still has a spark of life left, FEAF's young airman can start off on his honeymoon...