Day: May 15, 2015

A spokesman from the Australia Department of Defense has clarified that Assistant U.S. defense secretary David Shear had ‘misspoke’ on the deployment of B-1 bombers to Australia during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

By SSgt. Jerry Morrison, USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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There are four trainee pilots taking the current class at Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Introductory Fighter School, one of them is a Qantas captain who took unpaid leave to try make the cut as a fighter pilot.

By Robert Frola (Flickr) [GFDL or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons

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