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Tango01 | 05 Aug 2014 1:03 p.m. PST |
… U.S. Troops Gets Dismantled. "When a cargo plane landed on a Ugandan highway last month carrying U.S. troops, it grabbed attention and shed light on the low-key way in which American forces travel through Africa to carry out missions. But there's more to the story: The aircraft will be dismantled, likely because it can't fly from the same location again. A news video of the plane — a CASA-212 aircraft, as the website Medium pointed out — shows it surrounded by Ugandan civilians after it made an emergency landing July 18. It will be hauled back "to its point of origin," said Army Sgt. 1st Class Jessica Espinosa, a spokeswoman for U.S. Africa Command. It flew of out of Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, according to this news account…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
saltflats1929 | 05 Aug 2014 7:07 p.m. PST |
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