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MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFPN) -- Air Force Officer Accession and Training School officials here are assessing the damage to Air Force ROTC detachments and Junior ROTC units affected by Hurricane Katrina. Twenty-five Air Force Junior ROTC units located in high schools in Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Alabama are potentially affected. Of the 70 instructors assigned to those units, only 25 have been accounted for. Reports have confirmed that at least 13 of the 25 high schools were destroyed. "We are assessing what it is going to take to re-establish those units in terms of uniforms, textbooks and supplies,...