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...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...Rescued from years of not making any significant progress is the civilian tiltrotor, a smaller version of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey flown by the US marines and air force....
...The military version at least is not that difficult to fly – when I flew the simulator last year at a US Marine Corps air base in North Carolina, I mainly called on my rotary rather than fixed-wing experience...
...“I’ve got a civilian commercial licence to fly any ‘powered lift’ aircraft,” says Lt Col Romin Dasmalchi, commanding officer of the US Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron known as the Fighting Griffins....
...Having just written the Army/ Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, General David Petraeus was sent to Iraq, along with five additional brigades of troops....
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