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Business

Boeing opens new Everett, Wash., delivery center

Posted April 5, 2013 by

Boeing photograph Boeing April 3 opened its new expanded Everett Delivery Center, a world-class facility which will be the home of deliveries for the 747-8, 767, 777 and 787. The 180,000 square foot facility triples the amount of office, conference and delivery operations space as the old EDC and is designed to increase operational efficiencies….

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Defense

Air Force installations chief testifies to Congress on BRAC, MILCON

Posted April 15, 2013 by SSgt. David Salanitri

Air Force photograph by SrA. Carlin Leslie Kathleen Ferguson, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for installations, Environment and Logistics, testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction-Veteran Affairs, April 12, 2013. Fergusonís statement included topics as military construction, military family housing, environmental, energy and base realignment and closure. In testimony before the…

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Veterans

Faith in captivity: Vietnam War POW inspires Airmen

Posted May 1, 2013 by SSgt. Jenna Hildebrand

With his hands bound in manacles, an imprisoned Air Force pilot watched from his bamboo holding cell as North Vietnamese soldiers moved a wounded American prisoner into the cell across from his.

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Air Force photograph by A1C Gustavo Castillo
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Defense

Spangdahlem AB airmen launch final A-10 sortie in Europe

Posted May 15, 2013 by SSgt. Daryl Knee

Air Force photograph by TSgt. Jonathan Pomeroy Lt. Col. Jeffrey Hogan receives an American flag from Senior Airman Christopher Nichols May 14, 2013, at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. This tactical sortie is scheduled to be the last before the squadronís inactivation in June. Hogan is the 81st Fighter Squadron director of operations from Olympia, Wash….

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Defense

Navy Triton unmanned aircraft system completes first flight

Posted May 24, 2013 by

The Navy’s newest unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft platform, the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System, completed its first flight from Palmdale, Calif., May 22

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Defense

U.S. Army Tropic Regions Test Center puts MRAP through its paces

Posted March 29, 2012 by

During the worst years of the Iraqi insurgency, the mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicle was developed to protect American soldiers from the destructive power of roadside bombs and other improvised explosive devices. U.S. Army…

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NASA’s ER-2 completes MABEL validation deployment

Posted May 4, 2012 by

NASA’s high-flying ER-2 Airborne Science aircraft has concluded its four-week deployment to validate data acquired by the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experiment Lidar (MABEL) laser altimeter over the Greenland ice cap and surrounding sea ice fields. After an almost 10 and one-half...

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Events

Mojave hosting Intermediate Space Challenge

Posted May 17, 2012 by by Raphael Jaffe

Forty teams will be competing in the Intermediate Space Challenge at Mojave Air and Space Port May 22. There will be 30 teams from Mojave and California City, and 10 from the surrounding area schools.

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Defense

U.S., Pakistan military coordination improves

Posted May 31, 2012 by by Claudette Roulo

In a sign of improving coordination between the United States and Pakistan, two U.S. military liaison officers recently returned to Pakistan, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. John Kirby told reporters May 31.

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U.S.

Continental Congress authorizes Army

Posted June 13, 2012 by by Army News Service

When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, the original 13 colonies did not have a shared army, but instead, a collection of independent colonial militias. The first battles of that war were fought...

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