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Miles and Miles:

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Air Mobility Command has just celebrated transporting home from Southwest Asia the 500,000th passenger for rest and recuperation leave since AMC began the R and R flights in 2003. TSgt. John Jung reports that AMC officials greeted the half-millionth troop at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport last week. AMC-organized commercial airlifts fly 420 military and civilian personnel from the war zone daily to two hubs in the US, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta.

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