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Hi

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and thanks for joining us . November

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27th Major Troy Gilbert was killed in

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action while engaged in support of

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coalition operations in Iraq is up 16

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crash 20 miles north of Dan Dad . This

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week , Major Gilbert was buried at

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Arlington National Cemetery or his

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heroic actions . He was posthumously

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awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross

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with valor and the Purple Heart Major

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Gilbert with the stations at luke . Air

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Force Base Arizona and is survived by

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his wife and five Children . Three

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congressman from California visited

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lodges field Azores to attend the

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transatlantic conference on renewable

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energy . Well , they're the

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representative may be time to meet with

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a high school government class on base .

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The congressman took questions from

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both students and their parents . It

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was also a chance for the gentleman to

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reconnect with their roots . Each one

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is of a korean defense . Hard copies of

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newspapers will soon be a thing of the

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past in the airport human chain ,

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Arrington says In the bible airbase ,

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the based newspaper is transplanted to

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a purely online format . The solar air

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bases newspaper . The Northern Light ,

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along with other Air Force papers

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around the world will be contributing

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to the Air Force Smart operations 21 or

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a 0 21 by pulling papers off the shells

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and putting them in service members to

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computers asked us what we want applies

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to the Northern Light because we're

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going to be converting from a hard copy

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newspaper to an online version um which

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will streamline and make our process is

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more cost effective and time effective

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by applying a so 20 wants to their

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operations . Newspaper personnel will

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have more time to focus on creating

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quality product that the disappearance

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of the Northern light from newsstands

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may seem extreme to some , but the

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purpose of coordinating with 21 going

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online is to provide the best possible

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product to readers . Semen stain

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Arrington , Misawa Air Base , Japan for

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more on today's stories log onto Air

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Force link . There are unit whose

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history goes back a year before the Air

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Force was a separate service . As Petty

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Officer . RJ Mariah tells us members of

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the Hawaii Air National Guard have a

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long and proud history and heritage .

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Hawaii Air National Guardsman from the

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past and present came together at

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Hickam Air Force Base this hangar 35 to

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celebrate the organization 60th

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anniversary and reflect and have . The

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organization has changed over the years

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from a weekend warrior too . You know ,

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we're just doing a lot more than what

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we used to before . It's just , it's

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just huge . It's really changed because

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you know , at one point when we were

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here , aircraft came in here and after

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they were reconfigured and set up for

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flying in the pacific region . I mean

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we never left the country , we've never

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left the island . It nearly 1000

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american veterans including 3000

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members of the unit were on hand during

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the celebrations . Besides the usual

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food and festivities , the celebration

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with the chance to congratulate the

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unit on achieving a milestone , inc

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presented the unit with an award for

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70,000 hours of accident , free flying

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in the f 15 . It's a lot of effort on

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the maintenance personnel . In order to

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achieve that . It requires training .

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It requires constantly uh working

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safely , never cutting any kind of

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corners , always striving to get

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better . That's all attributed to the

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maintainers that we have . Over the

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past 50 years , the Hawaii Air National

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Guard's missions have changed but being

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a force in readiness for the state of

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Hawaii continues to be the cornerstone

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of the officer , Arjun Merida Hickam

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Air Force Base Hawaii . The National

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Guard as a whole celebrated 370th

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birthday on december 13th . The

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National Guard is the oldest component

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of the U . S . Armed forces and one of

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the nation's longest enduring

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institutions . The Guard traces its

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history back to the earliest english

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colonies in north America Responsible

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for their own defense . The communists

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drew on English military tradition and

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organized their able bodied citizens

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into militias . The Militia Act of 1903

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created the modern guard . While the

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National Defense Act of 1947 made the

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Air National Guard a separate reserve

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component . At the same time it

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established a separate air force .

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Happy birthday card for around the Air

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Force . I'm Tech sergeant Joy Josephson