June 03, 2012 Military Aviation News
06/03/2012
After more than 46 years of heartbreaking uncertainty, the remains of a U.S. Air Force colonel who served in Vietnam are coming home to America. Col. Derrell Jeffords, a Florence native, was 40 when the AC-47D aircraft he commanded and piloted disappeared on Christmas Eve 1965. A mayday signal was sent from the plane, known as “Spooky,” which was carrying six men over southern Laos while on a combat strike mission.
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06/03/2012
AUSTRALIA has thrown its support behind a ''rebalancing'' of American military might in the Pacific region, which promises to deepen strategic rivalries with China. Defence Minister Stephen Smith yesterday spoke of the ''positive impact'' of the United States on regional security, just hours before the US presented its most detailed plan of how it will bulk up military might into the Pacific region while making budget cuts elsewhere.
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06/03/2012
U.S. Defence Secretary Leon E. Panetta, seeking to persuade a sceptical audience of Asian officials that the United States is committed to enhancing its military presence in the region despite coming budget constraints, unveiled here on Saturday the most detailed inventory to date of planned new weapons for the region. The Navy, Mr. Panetta said, would reconfigure its forces from a 50-50 split between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific to 60 per cent of the Navy's assets assigned to the Pacific
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