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  • Deployed Airmen honor Tuskegee great with nose art

    02/17/2010 3:45:33 PM PST · by SandRat · 8 replies · 573+ views
    Air Force News ^ | Master Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol, USAF
    2/17/2010 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- A member of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing created a nose art display on an RQ-4 Global Hawk recently in honor of Lt. Col. Lee Archer, a World War II fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen. But it all started with Tech. Sgt. Jason Aucoin, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing ground safety manager at an air base in Southwest Asia, who initiated the idea to honor Colonel Archer who died Jan. 27 at the age of 90 in New York City. Upon hearing the news, Sergeant Aucoin recalled when he met Colonel Archer and decided...
  • Pakistani Forces Battle Al Qaeda-Linked Militants

    06/13/2004 7:29:16 AM PDT · by Valin · 6 replies · 144+ views
    Reuters ^ | 6/13/04
    WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces battled al Qaeda-linked militants Sunday in a fifth day of fighting in a remote tribal region bordering Afghanistan, where several army posts came under rocket attack, witnesses said. Artillery fire boomed in the Shakai area of South Waziristan, 250 miles southwest of Islamabad, where Pakistani forces were trying to flush-out foreign and local militants from their mountain hideouts, witnesses said. "Our houses shook because of the artillery fire all night," said one resident in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan. The army was hitting targets in the Shakai area. Militants fired rockets at...