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A-10 unit reaches 10,000-hour milestone

February 27th, 2009
Members of the 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron here reached a historic milestone Feb. 24 when the unit surpassed 10,000 combat flight hours in the A-10 Thunderbolt II for a single deployment rotation.

Col. Raymond Strasburger, the 455th Expeditionary Operations Group commander, and Lt. Col. Sam Milam, the 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron commander, were the two pilots credited for reaching the milestone after completing a five-hour, close-air-support mission in southern Afghanistan.
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