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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Air Force pilots flying Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are enthusiastic about testing technologies that will help them engage enemy drones in brutal chair-to-chair combat, sources confirmed today.
“I can’t wait to lock onto one of those Russian ‘Repellant’ drones that supposedly suppress our communications,” said 1st Lt. Rodney “Preparation J” Judkins, a UAS pilot assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron. Sitting in a Gentle Buttrider Mark III seat during a training flight open to reporters, he said, “I’ll knock those Rooskies out of their probably plastic chairs! Probably a chair like what you sit in at the lake.”
Judkins was eagerly looking forward to heart-pounding, death-defying chair-to-chair combat with both small ISIS drones and tough-as-nails Russian UASs.
“Air Force engineers help me fly, fight and relax by researching and testing the capabilities of enemy chair forces so we can win by a comfortable margin.”
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