Air Force

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President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, before presenting the Medal of Honor posthumously to Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, Corey Etchberger during a ceremony. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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President Obama presents the Medal of Honor to the sons of the late Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger -- (from left) Richard Etchberger, Corey Etchberger and Steve Wilson -- on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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An Air Force member salutes as Air Force One prepares for take-off with President Barack Obama aboard, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer)

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U.S. soldiers and a local Afghan man carry an Afghan boy who stepped on an IED which severed his right foot and most of a hand to a U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter operated by the 58th Rescue Squadron, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Air Force Pararescue teams and helicopter aircrews are part of the Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing based at Kandahar Air Field, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Director of National Intelligence nominee James R. Clapper Jr., a retired Air Force lieutenant general, testifies at his hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on July 20, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Lockheed Martin Corp. security personnel guard the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a workhorse aircraft for the Navy, Air Force and Marines, which received the funding President Obama requested, as well as $465 million for an alternate engine the Pentagon does not want. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden

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** FILE ** Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who has been serving as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency while on active duty, was commended for his military service at a retirement ceremony at Bolling Air Force Base in this June 21, 2008, file photo. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)