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# US Air Force

This year
2023
US Air Force asks public for help to locate missing downed F-35 plane
The base labelled the event a “mishap” and said that the pilot had safely ejected from the plane.
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Sep 18th 2023, 2:40 PM
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Afghan woman gives birth while aboard US military plane
Terrified Afghan citizens are continuing to flee the country after the Taliban’s return to power.
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Aug 22nd 2021, 5:24 PM
Human remains found in wheel well of US military plane following Kabul airport chaos
The plane was surrounded by hundreds of civilians as it took off from Kabul’s airport.
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Aug 18th 2021, 11:02 AM
'Storm Area 51' attendees fail to storm Area 51 as far fewer than expected turn out
It was a spur-of-the-moment joke that spiraled into a large-scale event.
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Sep 21st 2019, 5:46 PM
First US female fighter pilot to fly in combat claims she was raped while serving in Air Force
Martha McSally made the claim at a Senate hearing yesterday.
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Mar 7th 2019, 7:51 AM
This is what it's like to live at the US's most remote and isolated air bases
Thule Air Base is at the strategic halfway point between Moscow and New York City – 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Apr 17th 2016, 9:15 AM
Christmas lights: The inside story of one of the world's most notorious UFO sightings
Three decades on, TheJournal.ie talks to the man at the centre of the Rendlesham Forest incident, Christmas 1980.
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Dec 24th 2015, 10:00 PM
This is what a US Air Force mission looks like through a GoPro camera
Do you feel the need? The need…for speed?
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May 24th 2015, 3:00 PM
The US military wants to build a drone carrying "mothership"
Military designers want to build and aircraft carrier in the sky.
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Nov 19th 2014, 7:30 AM
Teen found dead in the wheel-well of an American military cargo plane
The body is possibly of African origin and was found trapped in a compartment above the aircraft’s rear landing gear in Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
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Jul 30th 2014, 9:43 AM
US Air Force helicopter crashes on English coast with four crew believed dead
It is not thought that anyone in the surrounding area has been injured but an assessment on possible munitions on board is taking place.
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Jan 7th 2014, 11:36 PM
Pics: This is what a day of military bomb squad training is like
A dangerous job like this needs a lot of extensive training and practice. The average US Air Force bomb tech can spend years doing this.
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Sep 21st 2013, 8:30 PM
Girl gets tasered, accidentally grabs a handful
This must have been painful for everyone.
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Sep 18th 2013, 6:53 PM
Hypersonic jet fails Mach 6 test
Officials have blamed a faulty control fin for stopping the super-sonic combustion ramject engine from starting properly.
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Aug 15th 2012, 9:42 PM
US to trial unmanned plane flying at Mach 6
Yep – if it had space for a passenger, the plane would still move six times faster than their screams.
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Aug 14th 2012, 3:59 PM
Agent Orange clean-up launched in Vietnam decades after war ends
US and Vietnam are commencing a landmark project to remove dangerous defoliant sprayed by American forces to defoliate Vietnam’s forests.
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Aug 9th 2012, 12:17 PM
Gilmore accepts US assurance of no rendition flights through Shannon
Eamon Gilmore says he’ll take the United States’ word that its Air Force did not carry prisoners of war through Shannon.
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Sep 20th 2011, 3:11 PM
Banning the ban: US must let gay people serve in military, says court
A panel of judges has ruled the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ ban on open homosexuality must end immediately.
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Jul 7th 2011, 3:01 PM
Obama hails Navy SEALs as it emerges bin Laden could have been caught sooner
It is also being reported that Osama bin Laden’s home movies – shot inside the compound in which he was killed last week – will be released to the media later today.
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May 7th 2011, 1:39 PM
US jet 'crash-lands' in field near Benghazi - report
The Daily Telegraph says a US fighter jet crashed due to a mechanical failure – but that the pilot ejected to safety.
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Mar 22nd 2011, 11:04 AM
Man charged with murder after Frankfurt Airport gun attack
One person remains in critical condition after yesterday’s gun attack on a US military bus outside Frankfurt Airport, in which two people were killed.
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Mar 3rd 2011, 8:45 PM
Two killed in Frankfurt Airport shooting
Two US military personnel were killed and two others injured in a gun attack outside one of Europe’s busiest airports this afternoon.
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Mar 2nd 2011, 7:40 PM
New tapes do little to solve British UFO mystery
Tape recordings of a potential UFO landing in Suffolk 30 years ago do little to explain the mystery.
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Nov 4th 2010, 3:26 PM