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Hand-to-hand combat breaks out aboard a Vietnam War plane

Brian Richards recounts the harrowing moment when a routine Caribou transport mission over Vietnam exploded into chaos. What should have been a simple flight suddenly became a fight for survival in th ...
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NRO Officially Declassifies JUMPSEAT First Gen Signals Intelligence Satellites

Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn from service in 2006. A memorandum dated Dec.