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RICHARD J. KOHOUT Major, U.S.A.F. Eglin A.F.B...
...failure may have been a contributing factor" in the crashes of three T-28s. The Air Force also announced that Viet Nam's entire squadron of B-26s was phased out, ending last month, after a B-26 lost a wing last February during a strafing exhibition at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., killing its two crewmen...
...Stead Air Force Base near Reno, Commandos learn to withstand Communist interrogation techniques by spending six hours in an isolation cell, half an hour in a cramped black box. In basic training at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, they are given a tattered piece of parachute from which to fashion shelter, then left to make shift in a swampy area for 3½ days. In the Panama Canal Zone their jungle training is enlivened by tarantulas and real but friendly Indians, who pursue them, try to steal their hats as a symbol of having slain them. The Commandos...
...leave-taking from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took...
...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...