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Former Air Force Commander Punished with 21 Days' Confinement, Forfeiture of Pay After Guilty Plea Col. Christopher Meeker, the former commander of Wright-Patterson's 88th Air Base Wing, was sentenced Tuesday evening after...
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!["When baseball went to war" displays Larry Doby exhibit](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-12/mil-larry-doby-display-1800.jpg?itok=OsG-7NGu "One of the displays in the "When baseball went to war" exhibit features Larry Doby, who broke the color barrier for the American League as a Cleveland Indian, and also played baseball as an enlisted Sailor at Great Lakes during World War II. (U.S. Navy photo by John Sheppard/Released)")
