First enlisted woman qualifies for formal combat controller training 1 hour ago Special tactics airmen from the 24th Special Operations Wing jump out of an MC-130H Combat Talon II at Hurlburt Field, Fla., in January 2015. The 24th SOW’s mission is to provide special tactics forces for rapid global employment to enable airpower success. (Senior Airman Christopher Callaway/Air Force) A female airman will soon begin formal training to become an Air Force combat controller, the closest any enlisted woman has gotten to breaking that glass ceiling so far. The unnamed woman recently finished the four-week assessment and selection course needed to progress to specialized instruction in combat control, Air Education and Training Command spokeswoman Marilyn Holliday said Monday.
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before they find a target. israel s military is also armed with precision-guided missiles. in this case, striking what is said to be the home of an hamas leader. egypt is trying to prevent this war from getting out of hand. spearheading talks aimed at ending the violence. israel s prime minister says hamas can end all this. ben wedeman is watching the conflict play out. reporter: we ve seen apparent urgent action by the israeli army in this area to get as much material, tanks, armored personnel carriers and troops in the area around gaza in obvious preparation for a potential ground invasion of the gaza strip. but a decision to actually go in has to come from the leadership, from prime minister benjamin netanyahu and from his security cabinet. that has not come yet. on sunday, it s expected that the secretary general of arab league is going to come to gaza with four arab foreign ministers. it may be difficult to launch a ground invasion while just a high-level group is ther
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and washington tonight, it is the annual gridiron dinner. it is comprised of high ranking journalists. that takes place tonight. president obama weighed in on the shooting of travon martin at the rose garden. we want to get your thoughts on what he said, about the case and what impack it might have long term. and here s how you can do so this morning host: a variety of papers with the remarks made about the rose garden yesterday. this is the atlanta journal constitution s write-up, obama, if i had a son that says the president gets personal in vowing to get to the bottom of tragic death. ken thomas saying president obama spoke in unusually personal terms friday about the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in florida reporter asked a question about the case, here s the reaction. i m the head of the executive branch and the attorney general reports to me, so i ve got to be careful about my statements to make sure that we re not impairing any investigations that s
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