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Published on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 by Angel
Airmen with the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., tried out a new virtual firearms training simulator designed to make them feel like they are in a war zone.... Read More »
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Published on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Angel
A C-17 marooned at 35,000 feet without a radio. Air traffic controllers struggling to land the cargo plane safely. And a C-17 reservist, flying a private plane, who talked the big bird down.
It was just like a scene from TV’s “MacGyver” — except this action hero spells his name M-c-G-u-y-v-e-r.
Tech. Sgt. Alec McGuyver was in a Cessna 340, head... Read More »
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Published on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Angel
A C-17 marooned at 35,000 feet without a radio. Air traffic controllers struggling to land the cargo plane safely. And a C-17 reservist, flying a private plane, who talked the big bird down.
It was just like a scene from TV’s “MacGyver” — except this action hero spells his name M-c-G-u-y-v-e-r.
Tech. Sgt. Alec McGuyver was in a Cessna 340, head... Read More »
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Published on Sunday, February 7, 2010 by Angel
Tech Sgt. Thomas Tully had trouble getting his head around what he would say when he stepped off the plane in Haiti.Barely 48 hours had passed since an earthquake had virtually leveled Port-au-Prince, the capital of the island nation, and chaos reigned.Planes from every country imaginable were at the airport, parked at different angles. Cars and people were everywhere... Read More »
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Published on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 by Angel
Iraqi and coalition efforts had combined to sustain the stability in Iraq set new records in November with zero airstrikes, zero weapons releases and zero shows of force.
The last time aircrews had a clean streak was in June; however, June also had 16 reports of troops in contact, but in November there were only five.
"Our Airmen are dedicated to the missi... Read More »