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George Bush - Air National Guard Pay-Off? _POSTEDON Saturday http://www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca/displayarticle430.html {EXCERPT} Canadian Democratic Movement, Canada - 22 hours ago to send other men's sons to Vietnam, enlisted his own son in a very special affirmative action program, the...

Does anybody know what the USAF tends to do when people with a directly translatable skill, i.e. civilian aircraft mechanics or computer programmers, enlist? I expect that they would have to go through basic training, but would they have to go through the entire course of technical training that...

------ Forwarded Message Interesting sale on E-Bay today. F-100D #552888 in Thunderbird colors is up for sale out of Seattle for a starting bid of $3,000,000. It states this is the only flying F-100D in the country and this aircraft actually flew with the Thunderbirds. ------ End of Forwarded...

Air Force board game debuts Dec. 1 (EXCERPT) by Staff Sgt. Melanie Streeter Air Force Print News 11/18/2003 - WASHINGTON -- A new game is scheduled to hit the shelves of base exchanges Dec. 1 when the Army and Air Force Exchange Service introduces Air Force Edition Monopoly. “This is a...

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Good book about the Southwest Pacific air war- Fire in the Sky, by Eric Bergerud. Now I appreciate all that Corsair weathering after reading the description of a typical airstrip. -- Jim Atkins Twentynine Palms CA USA "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark...

Nellis Airshow pics from above! Check out the Patriot Aerobatic Team, Sean D. Tucker and a formation flight with the F-14 demo team over the Vegas Strip and the Hoover dam! http://www.tvrphotography.com/nellis03.htm Enjoy, Tyson --

Air Force seeks to increase military participation in 8th annual . http://www.blackhillsbandit.com/articles/2004/06/18/sports/sports03.txt {EXCERPT} Black Hills Bandit, SD - 59 minutes ago The Air Force Marathon is open to the public, but being a military marathon, we felt we needed to increase...

It has been estimated that about 24% of all active duty military personnel served in Viet Nam between 1964 and 1975. To add further perspective consider the below information on draft dodgers and deserters who fled to...

"Anonymous" wrote in message ... I noticed in last Wednesdays Washington Post, in the Metro section they had a picture of the New Executive Office Building and showed a permanent installation of anti-aircraft...

"CV-22: Impacts of Performance on Cost Effectiveness" http://newsobserver.com/collections/osprey/osprey.pdf

Hi, Have posted photos of my 1:48 Tamiya Spitfire with resin 'C' wing here... http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/southfly/spitfirevc.htm Hope this isn't too cheeky but the model is also for sale on trade-me...

Can someone tell me what the short tubes are that are located alongside the canon on each wing? I've looked through a few books that show them but lack an explaination as to what they are. Thanks, Howard

Looked up around 3:15 PM in Southern New Jersey, after hearing noise from a plane going overhead. I saw a four engined plane with a blue bottom and what looked like white trim. Any chance this as Air Force One? Wonder where GWB was today? Either way it was kind of low, like the DC-9s that go down...

The US doesn't even have a democratically-elected president any more.....!!! What would the founding fathers have made of that?!?!?!?! Duties of US president is mainly ceremonial,he is basically a butler who supposed to serve meals cooked by the chief cooks to the people. So elected president...

James Bamford (author of 'Body of Secrets' which also includes a chapter on the USS Liberty cover-up) interviewed on MSNBC about his new* 'Pretext for War' book as it is about how the war in Iraq was for the Likud in...

About half the sources I have say that the Kawasaki Ki-100 had 2 cannons mounted on the fuselage and 2 heavy MGs mounted in the wings, while the other half say that the cannon were mounted in the wings and the MGs in the fuselage. Which is correct? If both are correct, then why did they switch the...

Flight Simulators as used on PC's should not be called simulators because they simulate too damned little. Call them flight trainers. That is a far more accurate description by far. Except the ones that are just games. Call them flight games. After all else has failed, always resort to reality no...

SHOOT GRIEGO SHOOT It was our first mission. We didn't know what to expect, but we expected the worst and were ready for anything. And sure enough we got it. When you are the newest crew in a squadron you always get stuck back in the tail end Charlie slot…number 6 in the low flight. What's bad...