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delivered an Atlas V booster, an active Air Base interacted with their Japan
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rocket family, to Vandenberg Air Force November during an extensive tour of
Base. The Antonov AN-124 made its way Naha Air Base as part of a new wing
from a production facility in Decatur, Ala- exchange program. The tour included
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met in November at Headquarters, Force, Japanese Air Self Defense Force,
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Harbor-Hickam, for bilateral talks con- humanitarian airdrops to islands through-
cerning military air and naval safety. out the Ulithi Atoll and the island of Fais
within the Federated States of Micronesia.
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