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	<title>Spec Ops Angels Blog</title>
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	<description>Dedicated to the Spouses, Families &#038; Significant Others of AF Special Tactics</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Remember Tarin Kowat. The battle that defeated the Taliban 5 yrs ago</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/27/remember-tarin-kowat-the-battle-that-defeated-the-taliban-5-yrs-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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PBS&#8217;s Frontline 
&#8220;Initially, the plan that we came up with was to close off all the major mountain passes leading into Tarin Kowt, then lay siege to the town with a large force. Hamid anticipated that the village itself would essentially surrender to us. But at the same time, we had to make sure that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the honor in abandonment?</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/26/wheres-the-honor-in-abandonment/</link>
		<comments>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/26/wheres-the-honor-in-abandonment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jules Crittenden
Sen. Chuck Hagel, C&#038;R-Neb., offers up a novel idea: abandonment with honor. Well, it&#8217;s an old idea, but it&#8217;s shiny and new again. This particular item can always be brought off the back shelf, polished, marked up and put in the front window when people who were previously enthusiastic about a war discover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military mothers yearn to be whole</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/25/military-mothers-yearn-to-be-whole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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By Donna St. George


Updated: 9:11 p.m. MT Nov 23, 2006
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When they called her name, she could not move. Sgt. Leana Nishimura intended to walk up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boeing to Build New SCAR Helicopter</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/25/boeing-to-build-new-scar-helicopter/</link>
		<comments>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/25/boeing-to-build-new-scar-helicopter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Harold Kennedy
The Air Force has awarded Boeing Helicopter, of Ridley Park, Pa., a contract worth a possible $15 billion to build 141 next-generation combat search-and-rescue helicopters.
The new helicopters would be HH-47s — updated versions of the CH-47 Chinooks that the Air Force has been flying for 50 years. They would replace a current, aging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search and Rescue</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/25/search-and-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With U.S. forces heavily engaged in combat, peacekeeping and disaster-relief missions around the world, military search-and-rescue units are trying to figure out how to work more closely together while saving lives.Although the Air Force has primary responsibility for combat search and rescue, all of the services have units that conduct life-saving missions. To be successful, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Force Times article</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/25/air-force-times-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sikorsky files protest of Air Force CSAR choice
By Vago Muradian
Staff writerSikorsky Aircraft on Nov. 17 protested the Air Force’s decision to award Boeing a $15 billion contract to supply the service’s future combat search-and-rescue (CSAR) helicopters.
Sikorsky filed the protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which adjudicates government contracting decisions. Once a protest is lodged, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFSOF Warrior</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/25/afsof-warrior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brigadier General (S) Michael W. Callan
Commander, Air Force Special Operations Forces
Air Force Special Operations Command 
Brigadier General (S) Michael W. Callan is the commander, Air Force Special Operations Forces, Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field, Fla. As the warfighting headquarters for AFSOC, AFSOF is responsible for supporting the U.S. Special Operations Command and AFSOC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pararescue school to build new campus</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/24/pararescue-school-to-build-new-campus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Rolfsen

Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. — Capt. Joseph Barnard respects the history surrounding him as he shows off a building at Pararescue and Combat Rescue Officer School.
There is the Medal of Honor presented to the family of Airman 1st Class William H. Pitsenbarger, who was fatally wounded in 1966 while treating soldiers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Chopper Too Vulnerable?</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/14/new-chopper-too-vulnerable/</link>
		<comments>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/14/new-chopper-too-vulnerable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[David Axe &#124; November 14, 2006
The Air Force&#8217;s newest helicopter might be too big and vulnerable for its intended role, according to one critic.On November 9, the Air Force announced that it had awarded Boeing a $10 billion contract to build 141 operational HH-47 helicopters for search and rescue, a role now performed by around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Communication problem can delay bomb run&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/13/communication-problem-can-delay-bomb-run/</link>
		<comments>http://specopsangels.com/blog/2006/11/13/communication-problem-can-delay-bomb-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  Air Force upgrading A-10s to digital radios
By Scott Schonauer, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, November 12, 2006
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — A-10 pilots flying close-air support missions over Iraq and Afghanistan will soon no longer have to deal with a potentially risky problem because the planes there are getting a critical radio upgrade.
The single-seat, twin-engine [...]]]></description>
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