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The 131st Fighter Squadron from Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts and 194th Fighter Squadron, Fresno Air National Guard Base, California will be deploying 12 F-15Cs to Europe starting from today.
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The driver and a passenger inside a Jeep Cherokee were killed after their vehicle hit a parked F/A-18E at NAS Lemoore on Mar. 30.
At the U.S. Central Command change-of-command ceremony in Florida, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that U.S. service members who serve or have served in Iraq or Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve will receive the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal.
DoD Illustration
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At the FIDAE airshow in Chile, an executive from Embraer brief Reuters on the latest development in the KC-390 flight test program.
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Somewhere in Delaware, a ATR 42-500 is siting in a hangar collecting dust after $86 million was spent trying to convert the airliner into a surveillance plane for counter-narcotics mission in Afghanistan.
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Photo: U.S. Department of Justice
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