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Gen. Lori J. Robinson succeeded Adm. Bill Gortney as commander of U.S. Northern Command (Northcom ) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on May 13. She is the first female combatant commander for the U.S. military.
A Royal Canadian Air Force investigation into the crash of a CT-156 at Moose Jaw in 2014 found that the loss of the training aircraft could have been avoided.
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Royal Air Force Eurofighters currently undertaking the NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission in Estonia have been scrambled for the first time on May 12.
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Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and former Air Force chief Prajin Juntong told reporters that Bangkok is interested in getting four more Gripen fighters. Juntong made the comments after meeting Swedish ambassador Staffan Herrstrom.
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Fighter pilots from Japan Air Self-Defense Force will be flying the F-35A at Luke Air Force Base by the end of the year, a Lockheed Martin official told Stars and Stripes in Tokyo.
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