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What is a Secret Squirrel?
The Secret Squirrel Three months after the U.S. raid on Libya in 1986, in retaliation against terrorist groups for their attacks on Americans in Europe, the Pentagon asked the Air Force to find a more effective way to destroy enemy...
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SAR helicopter
Search and Rescue SAR, or as it is more commonly known, Search and Rescue, has been around for centuries in one form or another. Each modern-industrialized country has a slight variation of SAR but they all boil down to the...
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How Low is Your Fun Meter?
   The Fun Meter What started out as a fun military patch might have accidentally been promoted to a self-boosting life philosophy and thus been extended far beyond the military branch it once originated from. In the most basic terms,...
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What is an Elephant Walk?
 Anyone would be excused for not normally associating elephants with flight since pachyderms can't fly. So, it may surprise some that elephant walk has actually been a term in use by the United States Air Force for decades. An "elephant walk"...
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How to Design a Challenge Coin?
  It was not long ago that the designing process for a coin was a long and arduous one. Because of the manufacturing techniques, there were limitations to the details and intricacies of the design that often frustrated those who...
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