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The new Airman Battle Uniform will go out to the field around the
middle of next year. Airmen assigned to Air Expeditionary Force
rotations 7 and 8, scheduled to deploy between May and August, will be
among the first to get it. They can buy the ABU about six weeks before
they leave, officials say. It should be available to other Airmen by
next summer. Once the ABU is available in base clothing stores, Airmen
are authorized to wear it. In all, the new gear will cost about $370
plus badges and rank. Clothing allowances will increase in October.

Numerous crows cover the sandy turf near the construction site on
Ramstein

There are few military aircraft that can be called

In the cavernous Ramstein North Chapel annex, the sounds of crinkling
lunch bags gradually gave way to a free-flowing conversation about
force shaping, Air Force Smart Operations 21 and more in the second
edition of the

Spirits are high during the holiday season, but checking accounts don

The British TSR.2 (Tactical Strike, Reconnaissance), first flown in
September 1964, was a highly advanced strike aircraft intended to
penetrate Soviet air defenses at very low altitude. It fulfilled
roughly the same requirement as the U.S. F-111 and, like the F-111,
pushed the

Approximately 150 Ramstein Airmen returned Dec. 18 from a nine-day
deployment for EAGLE FLAG,  an Air Force-level expeditionary combat
support exercise executed by the Air Mobility Warfare Center