The bombing campaign against Serbia is still recalled with a shudder by American air-force commanders.
The army is unlikely to be happy at an air-force man plundering its resources.
At about midnight on April 1st they came back to finish off the air-force headquarters.
Separatist Tamil Tiger rebels had audaciously attacked the airport and the neighbouring air-force base.
They were killed when an air-force jet shot at their aircraft, confusing it with a drug plane.
The fourth is a former air-force general, Ahmed Shafiq, who was briefly prime minister as Mr Mubarak fell.
They are managed by Infraero, an air-force dominated state company that is a Brazilian byword for bureaucratic obstruction and incompetence.
This month alone, two serving officers, a national-guard captain and an air-force colonel, separately called on Mr Chavez to resign.
The Central Bureau of Investigation said it registered charges of bribery, corruption, conspiracy and cheating against the former air-force chief, S.P.
But the revolution in military robotics does have an Achilles heel, notes Emmanuel Goffi of the French air-force academy in Salon-de-Provence.
Their combined income was two hundred dollars a month, and they lived in a small barracks apartment on a local air-force base.
Turkey remains a bastion of NATO, with the biggest army after the United States and a vital American air-force base at Incirlik.
Mr Aldrin describes the rockiness of his own post-moon life: alcoholism, depression, two failed marriages and a sad end to his air-force career.
Some 80 Israeli diplomats and their families were driven to the airport under military escort and ferried home by an Israeli air-force plane.
Mr. Amro's wife and six children were kidnapped by members of Syria's powerful air-force intelligence, said Fahd Almasri, a Paris-based spokesperson for the council.
The harrumphing ex-strongmen, all army types, were irked when the president chose an air-force man, Djoko Suyanto, as his chief of the armed forces.
These include Graito Usodo, an air-force man who was named military spokesman after his predecessor had questioned the president's authority over the armed forces.
So the town of Rantoul, a success story in central Illinois, followed the opposite course: it has replaced its air-force base with 71 different tenants.
His manifesto is being drafted by a socialist former air-force officer.
In the western Pacific, that would mean targeting or putting in jeopardy America's aircraft-carrier groups and its air-force bases in Okinawa, South Korea and even Guam.
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Take the chaos that has engulfed Brazil's airports for the past six months, the result of a creaking air-traffic control system operated by disgruntled air-force staff.
Meanwhile, the Oviedists who now run the armed forces have begun a court martial of the former air-force chief who foiled their hero's attempted coup in 1996.
When the smoke cleared, 13 rebels and five air-force staff were dead, and half the fleet of Air Lanka, together with eight military planes, had gone up in flames.
And so, again, with an abundance of caution, sometimes air force -- our air force, the Canadian air force -- will scramble some jets to make sure that everything is okay.
Mr Olmert's fatal error was to believe his chief of staff, a former air-force commander, who assured him that Hizbullah's thousands of short-range missiles could be dealt with in the same way.
Just last week, our Air Force -- our own Air Force -- used an advanced biofuel blend to fly a Raptor 22 -- an F-22 Raptor faster than the speed of sound.
Advocates of close relations with China maintain that its military strength has been overrated by Americans in search of an enemy: they point to China's lack of long-range naval power and the poor training of its air-force pilots.
As his family lived close to Greenham Common in Berkshire - a former air-force base where nuclear-armed US planes were stationed in the 1980s - Mr Cameron said he had also been aware of the arguments about nuclear weapons and Britain's defence.
Since some of Pakistan's jihadist groups declared war on their country in 2007, they have attacked air-force bases, buses carrying servicemen and at least five offices of the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, the military spy agency that spawned and nurtured many of the extremist outfits.
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For one thing, a win for his rival, Ahmed Shafiq, a former air-force commander who was the last prime minister of the fallen president, Hosni Mubarak, would have tipped power entirely into the hands of what many Egyptians regard as the forces of counter-revolution.
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