"Forgotten" Missions Bring Succor To Pakistani, Filipino
Disaster Victims
Marines break things and hurt people. Navy Structural Mechanics
fix shipboard aircraft. Seabees build airfields and fortifications;
Army helicopters sweep troops into and out of combat. That's the
conventional wisdom about the US military machine; and there's
little reporting about it, until somebody dies in Iraq.
For the crew of a Royal Air Force F-3 Tornado, it all started
out as a routine training mission. But it ended in a life-saving
diversion as the crew escorted a crippled Beech King Air to a safe
landing Wednesday.
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