Veterans Day 2015 - Sedalia Democrat

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A Salute
to Veterans
Veterans Day 2015
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A true brother in arms to all
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By Hope Lecchi
[email protected]
For all of his adult life, Jim
Gaertner has been in service
to others as a member of the
United States Army, the Sedalia Police Department and now
as an advocate for the brothers
and sisters in arms he fought
with who served before, during
and after his military service.
“I don’t regret any of my
military service,” Gaertner
said. “It was the right thing to
do; that’s why I volunteered
both times.
“The first time I had no idea
what I was in for,” Gaertner
added. “The second time I
knew exactly what I was doing
and I believed in the ideals we
were fighting for.”
Gaertner volunteered in
1969 for the Army when he
was 17 years old. It was the
height of the Vietnam War and
Gaertner said his parents were
Jim Gaertner places his hand on the grave of
his best friend, Mike Waters, in mid-September.
Waters is buried in Millan, Georgia. The two men
served together in the Vietnam War, where Waters
was killed in a friendly fire accident June 30, 1970.
Gaertner has made a vow not to let the memory
of his friend die. He has also devoted himself,
since his discharge, to serving other veterans
with their physical and emotional needs.
Jim Gaertner stands in the jungles of
Cambodia in September 1970. An Infantry
Sargeant, Gaertner enlisted in the Army in
1970 during the height of the Vietnam War.
Gartner said he does not regret any of his
military service. “It was the right thing to do;
that’s why I volunteered both times,” Gaertner
said. Gaertner’s best friend, Mike Waters, was
killed in a friendly fire accident while the two
men were serving together in Vietnam.
Photos courtesy of Jim Gaertner
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less than happy with him at the
time.
“There was a long line of
military tradition and service
on my mother’s side,” Gaertner
said. “She was more understanding of my decision but
neither was pleased.
“To this day I am convinced
that the reason I made it
through two tours was by my
faith in Christ and the prayers
of a whole bunch of good
Christians back home,” he
added.
Not only did Gaertner rely
on his friends and family back
home, but he also came to rely
on the new friends and family
he found while in the service,
especially the bond he formed
with a fellow soldier who
became his best friend, Mike
Waters.
“Mike was from Millan,
Georgia, a small town about
the size of La Monte,” Gaertner said. “He didn’t become
simply my best friend, but he
was everyone’s.”
Gaertner described Waters a
small town boy who everyone
in his hometown knew and
respected.
“He was so well thought of,”
Gaertner said. “I truly believe
he would have done anything
for anyone.”
In many respects, Waters did
just that.
It was the early morning of
June 30, 1970, near the Cambodian border, when a “terrible
accident” of friendly fire took
Water’s life.
Gaertner was the last person
who spoke to Waters the night
before the two men went to
sleep on their air mattresses in
the middle of the jungle.
“There was a lot of confusion and everything was so
intense,” Gaertner remembered. “In the service, there
is an emphasis on discipline;
mistakes were made.
“But all decisions have consequences,” he added. “That
same night there was another
fatality and 27 more men were
wounded.”
Gaertner, who was lying 20
meters from Waters, said the
impact from the rounds that
were fired was so strong that
it completely blew the air mattress from underneath him.
“I would like to think that he
didn’t suffer,” Gaertner said.
“I think of him every day and
every night but I made a promise to him to keep his name
and memory alive.
“It took me 45 years to get to
his grave, but this September
I did,” Gaertner said quietly.
“I had to pay my respects in
person.”
Gaertner struggles every day
with survivor’s guilt, saying he
thinks of all of those who didn’t
make it home from combat.
“I think so often about what
might have been,” Gaertner
added. “I have made it my vow
not to let them be forgotten,
and I have tried to live my
life in a fashion they would be
proud of.”
Waters was 20 years old
when he lost his life. Had he
lived, he would be 66 years old.
It was a year and a half later
when Gaertner received an
honorable discharge from the
service, but not before returning to the Pacific battlefield for
a second tour.
“I had to find a way to reconcile and accept the fact that
good people may lose their life
in this endeavor,” Gaertner
said. “I also believe that once
I reconciled myself to the fact
that I could die, I could concentrate on being a good soldier.
“I couldn’t spend a year fretting about getting killed,” he
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was always there to listen to me and
tell me it would be alright; eventually
I listened to her and got the help I
needed.
“PTSD isn’t simply something
combat veterans face; it is something
that anyone who has suffered from a
traumatic incident can experience,” he
said.
Gaertner said he hopes both veterans
and all citizens realize that by seeking
help those suffering are not seeking a
government handout, rather it is something that is owed to the veterans of
America for their service.
“I think a question we should all be
asking,” Gardner said, “Is not, ‘Why
are there so many who are suffering
from this?’ but rather, ‘Why aren’t there
more?
“The situation is especially true for
older retired veterans who have more
time on their hands,” Gardner said.
“Because they are no longer working
they have more of their own time and
that is when their mind tends to wander to places they don’t want to go.”
To help many veterans in their healing process, Gaertner serves as the
vice president of the Honor Flight Program in Pettis County. He has been a
member of the board since 2008.
“We’ve taken 19 flights so far,” Gaertner said. “They are a labor of love.
“We take 40 vets on each flight from
World War II, Korea and Vietnam and
18 escorts who help with any needs
(the veterans) may have. People always
ask what was the best flight, we always
tell them that is the one we just finished.”
Gaertner commented there is always
a great deal of emotion on the flights,
especially when the veterans visit the
Vietnam War Memorial and the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldiers, saying they were
both popular and sobering.
Gaertner recommends any veteran
who is seeking help to contact the VA
Hospital in Columbia.
“The help is not just for combat veterans,” Gaertner said. “There should
be no stigma or shame and this is not a
government handout.
“The citizens of this country owe
this to our veterans for their service.”
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Photo courtesy of Jim Gaertner
Grandchildren Ashlyn DeGraffenreid, John DeGraffenreid, Jim Gaertner and Lexi Shane are pictured
with Micki Gaertner. Jim credits his wife Micki with helping him to seek treatment for his PTSD (PostTraumatic Stress Disorder) after his return from Vietnam. The two have been married 43 years and Jim
describes Micki as his rock who is always there to offer her help and support.
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added. “There is a sense of peace with
potential death and I think that is true
in every war ever fought.”
Gaertner said when he returned
home “as corny as it sounds” the first
thing he did was get down on his hands
and knees and he kissed the ground.
He also commented that he heard
stories and saw protesters firsthand
when he returned home, but that he
did not experience a negative reception
upon his return to Sedalia.
“Once I got back home I was unemployed for a while,” Gaertner said.
“But, I knew I couldn’t do that for very
long.
“I had returned to a job that I started
working at when I was 13 and stayed at
until I joined the Army. My employer
was a good Christian man but he
treated me like I was still 13. I know
he didn’t do it out of malice, it was just
how he saw me, but after Vietnam I
just couldn’t handle that.”
Two months after leaving his job,
Gaertner accepted an opening with the
Sedalia Police Department where he
devoted 28 years of his life serving as a
law enforcement officer, including five
years as commander of the department.
He retired in 2005 and since then has
given his time to help other veterans
who are in need of help with either
physical or emotional needs.
“I want the veterans of this area and
this country to know that help is available to them,” Gaertner said. “Many
veterans have no idea what is available.
“I think for so many of us, we are
reluctant to talk about our experiences,
especially those with PTSD (PostTraumatic Stress Disorder) because of
the unfair stigma associated with it,”
he added. “I can understand and relate
to them because I have struggled with
PTSD since my return home.”
Gaertner said he now realizes he suffered with the condition for years, not
understanding what it was at the time.
Gartner credits his wife of 43 years,
Micki, who he describes as his rock,
with helping him seek the treatment
and help he needed.
He said he often was unable to sleep
because of the multiple nightmares he
suffered.
“I would wake up in the middle of the
night shaking,” Gardner said. “Micki
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A World War II love story
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By Hope Lecchi
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WARRENSBURG — Fate is a
strange thing. It can bring strangers together in difficult times and
forge lasting bonds of friendship
between two people.
For the last 75 years, fate has
kept two World War II veterans
together, not only in friendship,
but also for 72 of those years in
marriage.
“I met her in a military hospital,” Irving Brabant said. “Seventyfive years later we are still together in a military hospital.”
Irv and his wife Mary, both Veterans of WWII, have a love story
that is one for the ages.
“They gave you a number and
when they called it you had to go,”
Irv Brabant said. “It was June of
1941 and I was 18 years old when
they called mine.”
Irv was from Wisconsin and
was sent to Ft. Leonard Wood for
his basic training. Trained to be
a cook, he was sent to New York
before his deployment to England
and later France.
“I was supposed to be a cook but
the Army didn’t need cooks, they
needed people to fight,” Irv said.
“I was sent to the front lines and
believe me I was really scared.”
Irv was wounded and spent a
month in recovery, receiving his
first Purple Heart for his injuries.
After his recovery, Irv was sent
back to France, fighting in the
Battle of the Bulge. It was there
that he was injured for the second
time, receiving an Oak Leaf Cluster — the equivalent to a second
Purple Heart.
“I was wounded by a tree burst
when the enemy fired into the
trees,” Irv said. “My sciatic nerve
was severed and my belly was in
shreds.
“I spent the night lying in the
trenches before they got me to a
hospital,” he added.
Irv was eventually sent to
O’Reilly General Hospital in
Springfield to be treated for his
injuries.
It was there that his life would
change forever.
When Irv arrived at the hospital, doctors had to sew his sciatic
nerve with wire to try to repair
some of the damage his body had
suffered.
Eventually, he was placed in a
full body cast with only one leg
exposed from the plaster.
It was there in the military
hospital where he met his angel
of mercy who would eventually
become his bride.
“I know exactly where I met
you,” Irv said lovingly as he looked
at his wife Mary. “She took care of
me and all the others, but she fell
in love with me and married me.
“It’s really funny though,” he
added. “She was a lieutenant, and
I was a corporal and after all these
years I am still taking orders from
her.”
From the Kansas City area,
Mary Brabant entered the military
after graduating from nursing
school at St. Mary’s Hospital.
“I remember the nuns of St.
Mary’s thinking I would go to
work for them,” Mary said. “One
day, right after graduation, I
remember that I went down to
Union Station and I enlisted.
“I’m not sure how many Hail
Mary’s I had to say for that one,”
she added with a laugh. “I knew I
wanted to work where I thought
I could do the most good and I
truly believed that would be in the
Army.”
Mary first was sent to Ft. Collins, Colorado, for her basic training, before eventually making her
way back to Springfield.
Irv said the couple was not supposed to date because of their rank
and her job.
“We knew we weren’t supposed
to fall in love, but she listened to
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me and she was so caring,” he
said. “She had to buy some civilian
clothes when I was well enough to
get out of the hospital so we could
go on dates because we couldn’t be
seen together in our uniforms.
“I bought an old junker of a car
in Springfield and that’s how we
dated,” he added. “We could get a
few miles away where people may
not have known or recognized us
as easily.”
After receiving a three-month
medical furlough, the couple eventually made their way to Lee’s
Summit where Irv met Mary’s parents and asked them for her hand
in marriage.
“Army Chaplin David Savior
married us Feb. 18, 1943, and
every time he would come home
he would visit us,” Irv said. “We
became friends with so many of
the men and women we served
with.”
While many of those friends
have since died, the couple feels
blessed by their five children, four
of whom survive, five grandchilHope Lecchi | Democrat
dren and one great-grandchild.
Irv and Mary are pictured in their room at the Missouri Veteran’s Home
Two of their children have fol- in Warrensburg. The couple have been married for 72 years. After
lowed their example, with their
surviving World War II the couple said one of the keys to their marriage
was understanding there would be both good times and bad they would
daughter working in a hospihave to face in their life together.
tal and one son serving in the
Mary and Irving
Marines.
Brabant’s wedding
“We’ve had a really good marportrait from Feb.
riage,” Irv said. “We’ve had some
18, 1943, is framed
ups and downs but that is to be
and can be found in
expected and the way it should
the couple’s room
be.”
at the Missouri
Mary agreed.
Veteran’s Home in
Warrensburg. Both
“Whenever two people marry
served in World
you have two different personWar II and met in a
alities who came together,” Mary
military hospital in
said. “Sometimes words are
Springfield where
said…”
Mary was serving
Her husband smiled.
as an Army nurse
and Irv was sent
“I’ve learned to keep my mouth
as a patient after
shut,” he said with another grin.
being critically
“I honestly don’t know where I
injured by a “tree
would be without her.”
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Photo courtesy of Mary Brabant
burst” when the
enemy fired upon
his battalion in
France.
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Spanish American War vet a mystery to grandson
By Faith Bemiss
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Korean War veteran Bob
Davis, of Sedalia, talks
about his grandfather
Edward Smith, a veteran
of the Spanish American
War, as he goes through a
family photo album.
family
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Above: Much of
Davis’s grandfather’s
life is a mystery, but he
does remember Smith
attending his 1948 high
school graduation in
David City, Nebraska.
He added that his
grandfather eventually
moved to Colorado and
died around 1956.
Below: This photo of the
Smith twins was found
among Bob Davis’s
mother’s belongings. A
Veterans Administration
ID card on the front lists
Edward Smith as Spanish
American War veteran,
born Sept. 9, 1877. Davis
is unsure which twin is
his grandfather.
Davis
Photos courtesy of
Much of Spanish American War veteran Edward Smith remains a mystery
for his grandson, Korean War veteran
Bob Davis, 84, of Sedalia.
Davis and his wife Ramona recently
found an old, framed photograph of his
grandfather Edward Smith standing with
his identical twin in their uniforms. The
couple found the framed photo labeled
with a tag stating the Smiths served in
the Spanish American War. Finding the
photo was a special event for the couple.
Bob Davis, who served in the U.S.
Army from 1952 to 1954 during the
Korean War, said he never knew this
part of his grandfather’s history and
doesn’t even know the name of his twin.
It’s something no one ever talked about,
he added.
“(I knew) very little,” Bob said. “He
came to my high school graduation and
the next time we saw him, he was with
his other daughter in Wyoming, and we
went to Wyoming to see him.”
Bob Davis graduated from David City
High School in Nebraska in 1948.
Ramona said after the Spanish American War (1898-1901), Smith became a
miller.
“After the war he came back and
became trained in making flour, to make
bread,” Bob added. “A lot of the grain
elevators had some facilities for making
flour. He went around and made sure
that they were doing good.
“The one thing I can remember, and
it’s a real mystery, he had a black trunk
sitting in my bedroom closet,” he added.
“He said ‘I don’t want anybody to touch
this.’ He came back in 1948 and he says
‘now I’ll take that trunk from you.’ It was
a set of silk screens. There was a silkscreening process that they used to use
for making flour. He took that back to
Wyoming with him and set up another
mill.”
The trunk stayed with Bob for 10
years; no one knows why Smith left it,
Ramona added.
“I don’t have any idea, but he said
‘don’t open up that trunk,’” Bob noted.
Bob added that his grandfather nor his
mother, Hazel Ophelia Smith Davis, ever
talked about his service in the Spanish
American War.
“She never did (talk
about it) and it was a
complete surprise,” he
said. “My mother passed
away and we were cleaning out everything and
we found this picture.
That’s how we found
it.”
He said he remembered his grandfather
lived in David City,
Nebraska, for about
15 years before moving away.
“One of his daughters moved away
and then he moved
… he just moved
around,” he added.
He said he
thought his
grandfather died in 1956 in
Colorado.
“We got married in 1956, and he died
shortly after,” Ramona added.
Bob eventually went to college at the
University of Nebraska and then enlisted
in the Army.
“As soon as I got out of college the
Army said ‘it’s your turn,’” he said. “I
was in the quartermaster training command at Fort Lee, Virginia. I was there
for a long time. The quartermaster is
in charge of all the materials, in other
words, it’s a conglomeration of everything.
“The quartermaster command had
responsibility for all of the good things
that they have like mess halls, laundries
(and) field service outfits.”
As for the mystery of his grandfather,
a Veterans Administration ID card
tucked into the front of the framed
photo of the Smith twins said Edward
Smith was born Sept. 9, 1877, and he
was a Spanish American War veteran.
The card was dated 1952 and listed
Smith’s home as Fort Collins, Colorado.
Bob added that he’s not exactly sure
which twin is his grandfather.
“I never met the twin,” he added. “It’s
a mystery …”
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Navy
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Navy
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Served 2011-2015
Army
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Served 1965-1968
Navy
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Served 1966-1968
Army
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Served 1953-1955
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Army
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1943-1945
Navy
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Served 1945-1948
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Served 1966-1972
Air Force
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Served 1943-1945
Army
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Served 1990-2010
Air Force
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Served 1967-1970
Army
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Served 1966-1968
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Served 1944-1946
Army
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Served 1954-1959
Navy
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Navy
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Served 1942-1945
Army
RON DAVIS
Served 1965-1967
Army
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Served 1942-1945
Army Air Force
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Served 1970-1973
Air Force
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Served 1941-1945
Army
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Served 1942-1945
Army
JENNIE DORAN
Army
ALFRED DOVE
Served 1951-1956
VERNDEAN B. ECKHOFF
Served 1942-1945
Air Force
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Served Korean War
Army
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Served 1968-1971
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Served 11 years
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Army
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Served 1955-1956
Army
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Served 1966-1968
Army
JOSEPH A. HACKMAN
Served 1951-1953
Army
CARL E. FRANKLIN
Served 1944-1945
Navy
Kenneth HALE
Served 1941-1945
Air Force
JIM GAERTNER
Served 1969-1972
Army
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Served 1955-1960
Air Force
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Army
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Army
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Navy
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Army
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Army
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Army
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Served 1989-1997
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Army
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Served 1953-1955
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Served 1965-1969
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Army
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Air Force
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Army
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Navy
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Air Force
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Army
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Army
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Air Force
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Air Force
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Served WWII
Army
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Air Force
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Served 1958-1961
Air Force
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Served 1957-1961
Air Force
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Served 1956-1958
Army
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Served 1956-1956
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Served 1942-1945
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Served 1965-1967
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Served 1965-1967
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Air Force
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