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Colonel Edwin Carraway “E.C.” Newman II, 80, an Air Force fighter pilot and test pilot, "slipped the surly bonds of earth" for the final time on April 7, 2021 after a valiant fight with an aggressive form of multiple myeloma, attributed to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. E.C. was born in 1940 and raised in rural Sampson County, NC. In 1958, he graduated from Clinton High School, waved good-bye to the tobacco fields, and left the family farm for the U.S. Air Force Academy. In 1959, he played center in the first ever Air Force-Army football game, a 13-13 tie in Yankee Stadium. He gr...

Bilbray is a former member of the House of Representatives and was elected to San Diego’s 50th Congressional District in the special election to replace Randy “Duke” Cunningham. He lives in Imperial Beach. Traitor. It’s a word we throw around quite a bit these days. A popular term for both conservatives and liberals to sling at the other side, we know it’s overused when it’s only one side using it. The United States is fortunate to have a short list of people who everyone agrees are traitors. These are the people — the turncoats, the spies — who decimate the safeguards we bui...

For the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Bomber, Size Really Didnt Matter Small, nimble and simply built, the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk served the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps from 1956 onward for nearly 40 years. Here's What You Need to Remember: The A-4H was the first U.S.-made military aircraft adopted by the Israeli Air Force — this was an A-4F based export variant peculiar to both Israeli requirements and American export caveats. It added on a braking parachute but lacked the A-4F’s avionics hump, rear-facing radar warning receivers and the fire control systems to perform loft bombing. On Aug. 2, 1990, ...

Down. we go in, look attractive, they shoot at us, and if we survive, we get them. it's a crazy job. a lot of fun though. the helicopter thing, that was an absolutelily miserable day. it was overcast, one hole in the cloud. you never, ever fly down through hole in the cloud because everybody shoots through it. but we had to do it because they told us saddam was trying to get away. i used up every piece of self-protection equipment that airplane had that day getting in and out of there. probably one of the worst days i ever had. >> can you tell us about the hairiest air combat story that you've...

Including 12 consecutive shows. he even has a banner in the arena. he said he's played all over the world but there is no place like home. the first four shows which were already planned are sold out. the pentagon has a new number, too. not only is kristine fox the first woman to be poinld the deputy secretary of defense, she has a former claim to fame in the 80s blockbuster top gun. she is the real life charlie. here she is played by kelly mcgillis, of course. >> when i fly, i'll have you know my crew and my plane come first. >> i'm going on finish my sentence. >> i'm sure the film makers w...