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A real Mighty Mite
As mentioned in previous articles, the quest for a simple, cheap light
weight fighter has a long and generally undistinguished history.
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Ramstein Airman ensures mission success
Many are fascinated by high-tech equipment, but only a few understand
the complexity of maintaining and repairing them. The Precision
Measurement Equipment Laboratory technicians from the 86th Maintenance
Squadron are one of the few who do understand.
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Hispanic Heritage Month
The
weeks of Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 have been set aside to celebrate National
Hispanic Heritage Month. This year
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Forward, march …
One of the most unique aircraft configurations is the forward swept
wing, which is only rarely seen and almost exclusively on jet aircraft.
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Man on the street: Remembering Sept. 11
Sept. 11, 2001, was a day that, like Pearl Harbor, will live on in
history. At the Pentagon alone, 184 lives were lost, including Air
Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy members, Department of Defense
civilians, passengers and crew.
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Part of the AFN family
Lee Kiss has been volunteering as a DJ for American Forces Network Kaiserslautern for 25 years, since April 20, 1984.
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The not-so-Defiant
Many successful fighters of World War I were two-seaters with a rear
seat gunner armed with two machine guns
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The four engine fighter – part two
As World War II ended, the new jet technology made the U.S. Army Air
Forces Air Technical Service Command issue a specification (military
characteristics for all-weather fighting aircraft) for a jet-powered
night fighter to replace the P-61 Black Widow.
Features, Health
Do’s and Dont’s of contact lens care
In recent months, the Ramstein Optometry Clinic has seen an upsurge of
contact lens-related eye infections. In most of these cases, patients
were wearing their lenses on an extended wear basis, for example,
sleeping in contact lenses, contrary to clinic recommendations for
daily wear of contact lenses. Contact lenses are among the safest forms
of vision correction, but only when patients follow the proper care and
wearing instructions provided by their eye doctor. When patients don
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