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This is an Air Force

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report . The end of the school year is

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almost here and it's time for report

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cards and finals . Eric Schwab met with

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f 16 student pilots from lackland Air

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Force Base taking their own final exams .

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The student pilots from the one 82nd

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fighter squadron out of san Antonio

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texas got their first real taste of

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what it's like to fly the F 16 today .

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They're the focus of exercise coronate

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cactus at Davis Mountain Air Force Base

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in Arizona . Ever since I was a kid ,

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probably seventh or eighth grade . I've

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always wanted to be a fighter pilot and

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and I guess there was that desire that

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that made me think I was able to do it

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in the long run back in san Antonio we

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don't have the airspace or the range is

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uh that we're able to drop live

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munitions here . The airspace is great ,

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a lot of area , a lot of different

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ranges and it just makes it great .

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Good training . Eric Schwab , Davis

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Mountain Air Force Base , Arizona