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The first F-16 Fighting Falcon sortie for operational readiness exercise Beverly Midnight 12-01 prepares for launch on Osan Air Base’s runway, March 20, 2012. Team Osan Airmen are in the second week-long simulated wartime contingency exercise executed in 2012 that will test the base’s ability to defend and execute the mission in a heightened state of readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Craig R. Cisek)

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The first F-16 Fighting Falcon combat sortie for operational readiness exercise Beverly Midnight 12-01 takes off from Osan Air Base, March 20, 2012. Osan Airmen are in the second week-long simulated wartime contingency exercise executed in 2012 that will test the base’s ability to defend and execute the mission in a heightened state of readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Craig R. Cisek)

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The first F-16 Fighting Falcon combat sortie for operational readiness exercise Beverly Midnight 12-01 takes off from Osan Air Base, March 20, 2012. Osan Airmen are in the second week-long simulated wartime contingency exercise executed in 2012 that will test the base’s ability to defend and execute the mission in a heightened state of readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Craig R. Cisek)

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The first A-10 Thunderbolt II sortie for operational readiness exercise Beverly Midnight 12-01 takes off from Osan Air Base, March 20, 2012. Osan’s Airmen provide combat ready forces for close air support, air strike control, counter air, interdiction, theater airlift, and communications in the defense of the Republic of Korea, and the exercise tests these abilities during a heightened state of readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Craig R. Cisek)

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The first A-10 Thunderbolt II sortie for operational readiness exercise Beverly Midnight 12-01 takes off from Osan Air Base, March 20, 2012. Osan’s Airmen provide combat ready forces for close air support, air strike control, counter air, interdiction, theater airlift, and communications in the defense of the Republic of Korea, and the exercise tests these abilities during a heightened state of readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Craig R. Cisek)

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Fire breathing launch: Osan's jets are ready

Published March 19, 2012
By Staff Sgt. Craig Cisek
51st Fighter Wing Public Affairs

OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- As the sun begins to rise March 20, 2012, F-16 Fighting Falcons and an A-10 Thunderbolt launch from Osan Air Base as part of the operational readiness exercise Beverly Midnight 12-01. Osan's Airmen provide combat ready forces for close air support, air strike control, counter air, interdiction, theater airlift, and communications in the defense of the Republic of Korea, and the exercise tests these abilities during a heightened state of readiness.

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