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Monday Nov 9 | Las Vegas Review Journal

Nevada military took no special precautions

Nevada military posts took no extraordinary precautions as a result of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.

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Related Topix: Nellis Air Force Base, US Military, US Air Force, Indian Springs, NV

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Gouverneur Times

They Don't Get It

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. a ' Thirty years ago this week, a group of Iranian "students" shouting "death to America" stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking nearly 100 hostages a ' among them 65 Americans.

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Related Topix: Iran, World News, Middle East, US Military, US Air Force, Prison

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Department of Defense News

Nellis Programs to Have Regional Reach

Two new programs here are focused on getting care and services to wounded or sick servicemembers and to military families during their loved ones' deployments.

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Related Topix: Nellis Air Force Base, US Military, US Air Force

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Air Force Link

Security forces Airmen, Soldiers mentor Afghan prison guards

Staff Sgt. David Popp meets with Afghan prison officials during a mentoring session Oct.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Stars and Stripes

Daily transition between battle, home takes a toll on drone operators

" The daily work duties are arduous, involving close tracking of insurgents, patiently watching them dart in and out of shelters and, if the opportunity presents itself, occasionally raining missiles down on their heads.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, US News, Family, Kids

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Air Force Times

Officials extend UAV jobs freeze

Airmen operating unmanned aerial vehicles had better get comfortable - they will be staying put until at least Sept.

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Related Topix: Holloman Air Force Base, US Military, Cannon Air Force Base, US Air Force

Fri Oct 23, 2009

The Washington Post

U.S. drones protecting ships from Somali pirates

In this March 13, 2007 file photo released by the Department of Defense, An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle from the 42nd Attack Squadron taxis into Creech Air Force Base, Nev.. U.S. military surveillance drones based in the Seychelles islands are patrolling off Somalia's coast in hopes of stemming a rising piracy trade.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, US Military, US Air Force

Thu Oct 22, 2009

TheDailyBeast.com

Death by Joystick

With Joe Biden advocating an Afghanistan strategy that concentrates on remote drones, Douglas Rushkoff visits the Nevada site where soldiers play videogames - and real people die.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, US Air Force, Indian Springs, NV

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Esquire

We've Seen the Future, and It's Unmanned

Dan Winters The Predator's big brother, the Reaper, is a third bigger, flies three times as fast, and carries a much bigger payload The war begins each day on the long drive into the desert, just past the Super Buffet and the Home Depot and the Petco, and the swath of look-alike houses that cling to the city's edge, along the forty miles of the ...

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Watches, State Prisons, Prison, Cellphones

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Aerotech News And Review

UAS career field decisions, ISR organization discussed at summit

Air Force leaders met at an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance summit here Sept.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Air Force Link

Reaper takes flight at Holloman

The first MQ-9 Reaper to arrive at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., made its first local flight Oct.1, expanding the capacity for the base's remotely piloted vehicle formal training unit.

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Related Topix: Holloman Air Force Base, US Military, US Air Force, Holloman AFB, NM

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Las Vegs Sun

Nellis site of Nevadaa s biggest military baby shower

Air Force Airman 1st Class Holly Hughes, who is 22 weeks pregnant, and Airman 1st Class Michael Ruark laugh while opening gifts for their daughter Saturday during Nevada's largest military baby shower at Nellis Air Force Base.

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Related Topix: Nellis Air Force Base, US Military, US Air Force, Caliente, NV

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Asia Times

Kabul 2009: War of the Worlds redux

Page 1 of 2 Kabul 2009: War of the Worlds redux By Tom Engelhardt An unremarkable paragraph in a piece in my hometown paper recently caught my eye.

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Related Topix: World News, Afghanistan, Asia, Travel, Afghanistan Travel, US Military, US Air Force, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Government Computer News

Control systems cited in unmanned aerial vehicle crashes

The hazards of operating unmanned aerial systems were magnified in September by a number of UAS mishaps for the Air Force and Army.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Iraq, World News, Middle East, Asia, Afghanistan

CBS News

Wars Without End: The New Normal?

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project , runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. He is the author of The End of Victory Culture , a history of the Cold War and beyond, as well as of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing .

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, US Air Force, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, AZ, Opinion

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Asia Times

Payback time

Page 1 of 2 Payback time By Julian Delasantellis They say it's not easy to be a teenaged girl these days, and, wherever in the world you're talking about, that's probably right.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Millburn, NJ, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens

Mon Oct 05, 2009

Time

A New Kind of 'Top Gun' for a New Kind of War

As a small boy living near an Air Force base in Florida, Steve Petrizzo would crane his neck as jets roared overhead.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force

Sat Oct 03, 2009

DefenceTalk News

Predator passes 600,000 flight hours

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE: Airmen of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing here surpassed the 600,000 flight hour mark in the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft system Sept.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Patrick Cote, Mixed Martial Arts

Thu Oct 01, 2009

Air Force Times

Predator passes 600,000 flight hours

Airmen of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., last month surpassed the 600,000 flight hour mark in the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft system.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force

Tue Sep 29, 2009

Air Force Link

Airman sketches his way into Air Force history with UAS wings design

Staff Sgt. Austin May designed an occupational badge, or wings, to be worn by future unmanned aircraft system pilots.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, World News, United Kingdom, Katy, TX

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