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  • Civil rights legend honors King holiday

    1968. Memphis, Tenn. Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel. Friends sit in fellowship discussing a recent union strike. They didn't know this would be the last moments they would spend with one of their dearest friends and one of history's most admired people. This man was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and

  • Future 30,000-pound bomb reaches mile stone

    Air power was taken to a new level when a team of weapons specialists loaded a 20-foot mock bomb into the bomb bay of a simulated aircraft here Dec. 18. This wasn't just any fake bomb or aircraft. The bomb was a mock up of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000 pound bomb that has yet to enter

  • Gunfighter missing in action identified

    On March 7, 1972, Capt. Stephen A. Rusch went on a mission during the Vietnam War.More than three and a half decades later, he returned home.Captain Rusch, a native of Lambertville, N.J., served as an F-4E Phantom weapons system officer during the Vietnam War. Assigned to the 366th Tactical Fighter

  • Shaw aims to recycle more, make less trash

    People tend to take care of things important to them such as their personal possessions, friends and family. They tend to ignore things perceived as not important. People throw anything away that is of no use to them and call it "trash." Is it really trash? According to Mark Hall, 20th Civil

  • Minot medic becomes combatant to save friendly, enemy forces

    Not too many people can tell a story of saving the life of someone who's trying to kill them. For Tech. Sgt. Mark DeCorte, 5th Medical Support Squadron, NCO in charge of medical readiness, this is a story he's in a postion to tell from experience as a combat medic in Operation Enduring

  • Hispanic-American was aviation pioneer, tactical genius

    He was an aviation pioneer, an organizer of Allied victory during World War II and a Hispanic American. He was Elwood R. "Pete" Quesada. Quesada was the son of a Spanish businessman and an Irish-American mother. His military career spanned aviation history from post-World War I era biplanes to

  • Nothing will stop the U.S. Air Force!

    "Down we dive spouting our flames from under, off with one helluva roar!" Many have sang these lines dozens or even hundreds of times - in basic training and during numerous Air Force ceremonies, but there are few who have seen and heard what lies behind those words. This year, the Nellis firepower

  • Doolittle Raiders tour Mountain Home AFB

    They set out to settle the score ... to defend America ... to make history. On April 18, 1942, the Doolittle Raiders did just that. More than 65 years after flying 16 bombers over Japan to conduct the first bombing mission of World War II, retired Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, retired Maj. Thomas C.

  • 'Bomb Squad' uses tools, intelligence to battle GWOT

    Air Force explosive ordnance disposal experts are fighting a daily, deadly battle on the front lines of the Global War on Terror using the latest technology and the power of teamwork. A weapon commonly employed by insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan is the improvised explosive device. The many