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A: Hi Julie, how are things going? B: Everything is great, Tad. How are you? A: I'm doing really well. B: Tad, I'm pretty hungry right now. Want to walk over and check out the food table? A: Julie, do you know who that woman is over there by the wind

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F15-E. They started to come out only at night. They started to take advantage of environmental conditions which made it difficult for us to see them. And they began to move their operations' areas farther north. The intense air attacks on Scud sites

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(There's also a piece of safety wire that, em, showed up on the X-ray. So we have to...) In fact just the opposite proved true, the number of air planes ready to fly at any given time actually increased during the war. F-15s went from an 85 percent p

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Hundreds of coalition airplanes were in the sky at any one time. Airborne warning and control system airplanes better known as AWACS kept air traffic straight. Largely thanks to AWACS there were no air-to-air friendly fire incidents during the Gulf W

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【社交】八卦-Gossiping

A:Hi Julie, how are things going? B:Everything is great, Tad. How are you? A: I'm doing really well. B:Tad, I'm pretty hungry right now. Want to walk over and check out the food table? A: Julie, do you know who that woman is over there by the window?