Editor’s Note

May 17, 2011

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Data on the air sorties in Southwest Asia are available once again and will appear periodically in the Data Points section of the airforce-magazine.com home page. The most recent Data Points entry, Airpower on the Rise, includes the air sorties data for all of 2010.

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