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Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Military's Independent News Source: Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Top headlines from Stars and Stripes. See the rest of today's news at www.stripes.com U-2s challenge pilots' endurance in the air The once-secret U-2 reconnaissance plane is known for its high-value role in some of the Cold War's most critical events. It's also known as the world's toughest plane to pilot. Airman's death ruled an accident Italian investigators have concluded that an American airman who died in October was fatally injured after jumping from a train that was leaving the Pordenone station, two Italian newspapers reported. New policy makes post-deployment leave easier for Pacific airmen A recent change to an Air Force regulation on taking leave can save Pacific-based airmen a lot of money. Effective Dec. 16, the Air Force began allowing its personnel to take vacation days in the United States while traveling back to their home duty stations after a contingency deployment Policy chief pitches alternative Futenma plan Transferring 23 F-15 fighter jets from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, to Misawa Air Base in mainland Japan would free up room for operations at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to be moved to Kadena, according to a proposal pitched Tuesday by the policy chief of one of the two junior partners of Japan's coalition government. Obama to announce new airline safety measures President Barack Obama is announcing new measures Tuesday to beef up airline security after an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Obama says terror attack 'dots' not connected President Barack Obama scolded 20 of his highest-level officials on Tuesday over the botched Christmas Day terror attack on an airliner bound for Detroit, taking them jointly to task for "a screw-up that could have been disastrous" and should have been avoided.
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