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...said, "in terms of a blast that you don't normally see in the normal kinds of terrorism." Still, it was common knowledge that the airmen were vulnerable, living in apartments facing a public parking lot less than 100 ft. away. "If anything was going to happen, says Senior Airman Dan Williams, who lived in Building 131, "it was going to happen there...
...four more and damaged six others in just nine months. Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It), Allen Payne (New Jack City), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Outbreak) and Andre Braugher (TV's Homicide) play the much-decorated flyers. "Nothing compares to this," says Robert Williams, 73, an airman who sold the story concept to hbo after spending 43 years shopping it around Hollywood. "Not even flying 50 missions, shooting down two Germans and getting the Distinguished Flying Cross from the President"--all of which he's done--"compares with getting this movie made...
...search continues for the missing American pilot of the downed F-16 fighter plane. Signals have stopped coming from the airman's beacon, the Pentagon says. And the Bosnian Serbs are now denying earlier claims that they had captured the pilot...
Women improved things -- because of military skills and because of gender. Wives noticed they were getting better gifts because during port calls their husbands had female shipmates to advise them on shopping. "Some of the guys have an easier time talking to females than males about family problems," said Airman Heather Weers. Feeling competition, the men worked harder. And foul language was toned down. "I think we've become a little more civilized," said the skipper, Captain Alan Mark Gemmill...
...airman discharged for psychiatric reasons came back to Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington State armed with an MAK-90 assault rifle. The gunman, identified as Dean Mellberg, killed four people and wounded 23 in the base hospital before being shot to death by a military policeman. Four days later another tragedy befell the base when a B-52 crashed, killing the four people on board...