| October 20, 2008 | - David Moore, a former Air Force mechanic in Connecticut who is building a flying bat-suit, admitted that he had “failed miserably” this year. “It looks,” he said of his crumpled nylon contraption, which he calls The Fletcher, “like a pile of spaghetti right now.”
| Source:
Hartford Courant
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| June 23, 2008 | -
Air Force veteran, comedian, and self-described “old fuck” George Carlin died at 71.
| Source:
WP
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| May 17, 2008 | - U.S. Air Force pilots were testing the Advanced Mission Extender Device, the result of a $5 million program to replace unhygienic “piddle packs” with a system that converts urine into a gel.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| February 13, 2008 | -
Representative Tom Lantos (D., Calif.), a Holocaust survivor and superdelegate who was expected to back Clinton, died. At a memorial service, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni compared Lantos to “a shining blue Star of David emblazoned on an American Air Force jet.” Bono led mourners in an a cappella version of John Lennon's “All You Need Is Love,” and Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R., Florida) interrupted the closing speech by Elie Wiesel with a call for a vote to adjourn.
| Source 1:
New York Times
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Jerusalem Post
Source 3:
Politico
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Washington Post
Source 5:
Washington Post
Source 6:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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| September 22, 2006 | - A British major described the Royal Air Force as “utterly, utterly useless.”
| Source:
The Independent
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| May 14, 2006 | - The Air Force, under orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was researching alternative fuels for its jets. "Energy," said an Air Force representative, "is a national security issue."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 9, 2006 | - The U.S. Air Force, under pressure from evangelical Christians, changed its religious tolerance guidelines to allow for religious intolerance.
| Source:
AP via Forbes
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| August 10, 2005 | - An Air Force colonel in Denver, Colorado, was in trouble for vandalizing cars that sported pro-Bush bumper stickers.
| Source:
AP
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| June 29, 2005 | -
President George W. Bush gave a nationally televised speech about the war in Iraq to an audience of soldiers. Bush, who served in the Air National Guard, said there was “no higher calling” than military service and mentioned the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks five times. After the speech, there was some question as to whether the soldiers had clapped enough.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| June 7, 2005 | - Recently released emails showed that Air Force officials knew all along that a contract for leased refueling tankers was actually a bailout for Boeing. "We all know," wrote an official in the Pentagon comptroller's office, "that this is a bailout for Boeing."
| Source:
Washington Post
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| November 17, 2004 | - The Army and Air Force increased the number of mobilized National Guard and Army Reserve personnel to 182,478, and
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Dept. Defense
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| 0, 2000 | - Recalling September 11, New Yorkers panicked as a spare
Air Force One 747, accompanied by a fighter jet, flew low near the World Trade Center site in Manhattan for a White House photo op. President Barack Obama, who is reading the novel Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, ordered a review of the $328,835 flight.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
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The New York Times
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CNN
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