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Term Paper Title	English Comp 102
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	8.72

English Comp 102
15 Dec 1998
Research paper

Peace and Politics: A Marriage Made in Hell

The time is September 17, 1996, the day a young airman uneasily awaits the bombing of Iraq. On this day he has traveled over two thousand miles across the Atlantic Ocean. He has been awake for almost thirty-six hours, and he and his fellow airmen have just launched ten KC-10 tanker aircraft fueled to maximum capacity. Their mission an in-flight refueling to a squadron of F-117 stealth bombers, the same bombers that they dragged across the ocean to destroy strategic military locations inside the borders of Iraq. The bored and tired airmen watch the CNN network. It is the only real source of military information available to them. At this time, it is revealed to them that the aircraft they so urgently generated never performed their intended task. They find that Iraq had been bombed, but it was bombed by several B-52 bombers from the small island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. These men share a timeless story of the modern United States Air Force that is repeatedly becoming second nature to them. These men have their personal lives stopped. These men are no longer able to see their families and loved ones for at least one hundred and twenty days. They were removed from their daily
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surroundings to perform their jobs ill prepared, ill maintained, and ill sufficient. They were deployed from a state of so-called "readiness", in which they had to drop everything, that was going on in their lives to pack a bag known as a "mobility bag". This single bag consists of all their personal items and clothing to last them the duration of the deployment (Mohn). This does not leave much room for their real personal items; actually they are lucky if they can fit extra reading material in it. As they drag this bag around, they are soon to be in a world of hurt. The other bags they are given to trudge around are made of a number of useless gadgets that are leftovers from the Gulf War. These were actually never used during that period and they were returned to the air force supply system. Along with the many necessary and unnecessary items, these airmen are supplied with aircraft parts and accessories that are issued by vendors who were the lowest bidding government contractors. These vendors that are produce and repair government aircraft parts are repeatedly coming short of air force standards. This fact alone makes them pessimistic about performing their jobs succes...

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