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Wounded Soldiers Stuck in Middle of Aircraft Battle

By Sharon WeinbergerOct 30th 2010 – 5:46PM
U.S. Air Force

U.S. Air Force

This is the third in a series of stories by our special correspondent about military aviation issues linked to the war in Afghanistan. Read also the growing pains of the Afghan air force and the attempts of female pilots to find a place in it. RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Oct. 30) -- More than two dozen injured U.S....

Background on c 17

The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft. It was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas; the company later merged with Boeing.

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