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Air Force Turns to Supersonic Mercenaries
BOOM TIME
The ‘smallest Air Force in history’ is dealing with more missions than ever. So the flyboys are calling in the military contractors to operate their jets.
Dave Majumdar
Published
Jan. 20 2015
5:56AM EST
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