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  • 60-MPH Wind and Hail Buffet Patriot Express players

    As I'm scraping out thick mud caked to the bottom of my boots I hear,  "Well that definitely doesn't look good at all." Canvassing the mud-spattered site here, my jaw dropped. The 50-foot antenna mast, which serves as the primary communication for air to ground transmissions for the Hard-sided

  • Turn and Burn -- The Things I Saw At War

    The following is a snapshot of my deployment while at Camp Phoenix, Afghanistan."So this is just a turn-and-burn right?" I ask the Marine. We're standing on the side of the main road of Camp Phoenix, across from the building we both work at, in frontof a row of black SUVs. It's late afternoon on a

  • Crash Course

    Members of the 439th Operations Support Squadron spent several days teaching lessons they hope no flyer ever has to use. The unit's aircraft life support crew hosted water and land survival refresher training at Key West, Fla., Feb. 21-25 to help flight crews overcome their worst nightmare --