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June 1998, Vol. 81, No. 6


Editorial: Long Range Blind Spot
By John T. Correll
There is no plan for long range airpower beyond upgrades and improvements for the existing bomber fleet.

To Provide for a Powerful Force
By John A. Tirpak
At an Air Force Association symposium, USAF leaders consider the future and talk about requirements.

B-1s for Theater War
By John A. Tirpak
The "Bone" has shifted from nuclear to conventional missions and would be heavily tasked in event of Major Regional Conflict.

Thunderbirds
Rapid and frequent deployments, 20-hour days, 200 days of TDY a year-it sounds like almost any other squadron in the US Air Force.

Khobar Towers
By Rebecca Grant
Nineteen airmen died in the blast-and the repercussions went on from there.

The Berlin Airlift
By Stewart M. Powell
Veterans of the greatest humanitarian airlift in history recall the experience. It began 50 years ago this month.

The New Way of Officer Assignments
By Bruce D. Callander
The Air Force is essentially returning to the "select and assign" procedure that prevailed until 1991.

Troubles With Tricare
By Peter Grier
There is still a long way to go before it will be a smooth-running health care system.

The Young Tigers and Their Friends
By Walter J. Boyne
Sometimes the tanker crews bent the rules to ensure that strike aircraft, critically low on fuel, made it home.

Zuckert Remembers
By Bruce D. Callander
A former Secretary of the Air Force looks back 50 years to how the force began and grew.

AFA Advisors and Councils
By Courtney D. Manuel
AFA President Doyle Larson has appointed these advisors and councils for 1998.

The Chart Page

Aerospace World

Valor--One Magic Moment
By John L. Frisbee
Battered by high waves and without a life raft, Linebacker II veteran navigator Capt. Myles McTernan refused to give up. At last, fortune smiled on him.


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