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Jan 8, 1970 - Col. Douglas H. Frost set flight endurance record for A-7D Corsair IIs, making a ten-hour flight from Edwards AFB, Calif. with two round trips to New Mexico and covered 5,000 miles with one air refueling.
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Jan 16, 1970 - Strategic Air Command retired its last B-58 Hustlers as two bombers from the 43 BMW at Little Rock AFB, Ark., and two from the 305th BMW at Grissom AFB, Ind., flew to the aircraft storage facility at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.
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Feb 3, 1970 - Strategic Air Command finished retrofitting 300 Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with new reentry systems to modernize America's retaliatory capability.
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