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...Spangdahlem air base in Germany that afternoon, Albright seemed to draw energy from the spirited response of the soldiers and airmen she met. It put her into her feisty, no-nonsense mode. She peppered an F-16 pilot about whether his plane was carrying a maximum payload. "Yes, sir," the pilot responded, then stammered, "I mean, I guess...
...most recent U.S. air war was over Bosnia in 1995. It helped drive Milosevic to Dayton, Ohio, where he signed a peace accord. An Air Force study concluded that the key lessons were to hit hard and use precision weapons. "Precision weapons gave NATO airmen the ability to execute a major air campaign that was quick, potent and unlikely to kill people or destroy property to an extent that would cause world opinion to rise against the operation," the study concluded...
...military, Representative DUNCAN HUNTER believes that many people with disabilities are well suited for the services' growing number of jobs sitting behind the console or at the computer. "If we don't start tapping that very important pool, we're not going to have enough soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen to make our military run," says Hunter, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and a veteran who won the Bronze Star after taking part in helicopter assaults in Vietnam. The notion of recruiting such folks to the military came to him after watching Steven Spielberg's Saving...
Esprit de corps not withstanding, the Marine airmen involved in the Italian ski-lift accident last February have finally broken ranks: Capt. Chandler Seagraves has been granted immunity for his testimony about a videotape allegedly made during the fatal flight. But how did investigators scale the wall of silence that the four men had kept up for so long? Common sense...
Brave words, and familiar. Clinton, the day after the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American airmen in Saudi Arabia: "We will not rest in our efforts to find who is responsible for this outrage, to pursue them and to punish them...