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THE TOPLINE: Each day seems to bring more grim news out of Afghanistan.
The air force is one of the Afghan government’s main advantages over the Taliban, though there have been questions about how long it can last without the U.S. contractors who have been maintaining the planes.
In an effort to take away that advantage, the Taliban is targeting the pilots, who take years to train and are hard to replace.
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