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June 22, 2012
Two firefighters from the 420th Air Base Squadron were recently awarded the Robert A. McAllister Heroism Award.
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April 30, 2012
On May 1, 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in the airspace of the Soviet Union. The incident happened fifteen days before the scheduled opening of an East–West summit conference in Paris.
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April 10, 2012
Polish President, Lech Kaczyński, and 95 others, including several senior Polish military and civilian leaders, are when their plane crashed in Russia.
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March 11, 2012
On March 17, 1966, DSV Alvin was used to locate a submerged 1.45-megaton hydrogen bomb lost in a United States Air Force midair accident over Palomares, Spain. The bomb, found resting nearly 910 meters (2,990 ft) deep, was raised intact.
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January 18, 2012
Within EUCOM’s area of resposnibility, a B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
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December 14, 2011
United States Air Forces in Europe officials released the results of their investigation into the March 21 crash in Libya of an F-15E Strike Eagle as it performed combat operations enforcing the United Nations mandated no-fly zone established for Operation Odyssey Dawn.
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November 12, 2011
At 7:13 a.m. Nov. 15, 1969, K-19 collided with the attack submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
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September 23, 2010
The 7-ton truck he was riding in just crashed back down after being thrown 5 feet into the air after hitting an improvised explosive device while on convoy in eastern Afghanistan.
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April 20, 2010
ROTA, Spain — A funeral service was held April 20 at the Rota Naval Base Squadron 10 hangar for the four Spanish soldiers who died April 16 when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area near Haiti.
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April 12, 2010
On behalf of the men and women of the U.S. Navy, I extend our deepest condolences to our fellow sailors in the Polish navy for the loss of their Navy Commander-in-Chief Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta as well as their president and other national leaders in the tragic plane crash April 10.
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February 16, 2010
STUTTGART, Germany -- Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Panzer Kaserne Community Chapel here, Feb. 11 to honor the memory of three soldiers who sacrificed their lives in service to America.
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January 26, 2010
NAPLES, Italy - At the request of the government of Lebanon and U.S. Department of State, Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet is coordinating assets in support of search and rescue efforts off the coast of Lebanon, Jan. 25. Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET409 crashed shortly after take-off from Beirut International Airport en route to Ethiopia. Within hours, a U.S. P-3 Orion aircraft and the USS Ramage (DDG 61) arrived on scene and were assisting the on-scene commander from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
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