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A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 from No. 5 Squadron has returned home to RNZAF Base Auckland on Dec. 8 after spending 16-month in the Middle East.
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Photos: Royal New Zealand Air Force
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Two Afghan Air Force airmen assigned to the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base failed to turn up for duty on Dec. 7. One of the men is an Afghan Air Force lieutenant, while the other is a senior master sergeant.
By Senior Airman Ryan Callaghan (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1716020) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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For the first time since 1952, airmen from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Royal Australian Air Force are joining the U.S. Air Force for Operation Christmas Drop.
U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Riedel
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VFA-106, the East Coast Fleet Replacement Squadron, brought its Hornets and Super Hornets to Mountain Home Air Force Base qualify 14 students on air-to-ground tactics and currency training for others.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jeremy L. Mosier
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India’s largest aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, is sailing towards the coast off Gujarat and the ship’s air wing will have to defend the task force from mock attacks carried out by Indian Air Force Jaguars and possibly Su-30MKIs.
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