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The new Airman Battle Uniform will go out to the field around the
middle of next year. Airmen assigned to Air Expeditionary Force
rotations 7 and 8, scheduled to deploy between May and August, will be
among the first to get it. They can buy the ABU about six weeks before
they leave, officials say. It should be available to other Airmen by
next summer. Once the ABU is available in base clothing stores, Airmen
are authorized to wear it. In all, the new gear will cost about $370
plus badges and rank. Clothing allowances will increase in October.

There are few military aircraft that can be called

The tires of the mud-covered Opel Vectra spin on wet pavement and the
sedan launches toward a 90-degree turn with speed. The instructor in
the passenger seat firmly tells the student driver to wait for
instructions before deviating from the collision course.

Spirits are high during the holiday season, but checking accounts don

When one thinks of large airlifters, the C-5, the C-17, the Boeing 747,
and the Antonov An-124 leap to mind. But the ancestor of these
aircrafts still holds the title of the largest land-based,
piston-engine airlifter, the Convair XC-99. Dubbed the