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David C Isby provides some details of the US Air
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Chief of Staff, General David Goldfein.EA-18G GROWLER
Mark Ayton concludes a two-part feature on the
training mission of Electronic Attack Squadron 129, the
schoolhouse and repository of electronic attack in the
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