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At Least Two Dead in Bomber Crash
At Least Two Dead in Bomber Crash: The Air Force has confirmed that at least two are dead out of the six-member crew of the B-52H bomber that crashed Monday morning (about 9:45 a.m. local time) off the northwest coast of Guam. A joint search and rescue effort recovered the two bodies and was still ongoing for the remaining crew. According to a July 21 Air Force release, officials had determined the identity of one of the airmen recovered, but they were withholding that information pending notification of next of kin. The B-52 and its crew had deployed to Andersen Air Force Base from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale AFB, La. It arrived in June at Andersen as part of a regular, four-month rotation of bombers. The current nine B-52s relieved another group of Barksdale B-52s. Joining the Air Force in the search efforts are the Navy, Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and Guam Fire and Rescue and Police. The bomber was on a training mission that included participation in a flyover marking Guam's Liberation Day. There were no weapons aboard.
7/22/2008
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Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. |
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Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.
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