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2016 YEAR IN REVIEW<br />
December 2016 | Volume 41 | Number 12<br />
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TATE OF THE CAF<br />
WING STAFF<br />
CONFERENCE<br />
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ALL OF FAME<br />
NDUCTEES<br />
PULLOUT<br />
POSTER!<br />
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<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=3"> CONTENTS 7 7 | YEAR IN REVIEW 14 | STATE OF THE</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=4"> DECEMBER 2016 SOME YEAR-END RECAP ITEMS: Educat</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=5"> The CAF annual member meeting had a very large at</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=6"> HONORING AMERICAN MILITARY AVIATION THR</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=7"> PHOTO BY MARK NAUMANN </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=8"> AIRSHOWS OF 2016 COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE 2016 </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=9"> A LOOK BACK AT SOME 2016 AIRSHOWS. CAF ATLA</a>
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<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=13"> PHOTO BY KEDAR KARMARKAR</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=14"> STATE OF THE CAF 2016* REPORT * AS OF</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=15"> MEMBERS & UNITS TOTAL CAF MEMBERSHIP Life Members</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=16"> When asked What’s your CAF story… Stephen Chapis </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=17"> this is how you responded… Len Canter I am </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, December 2016 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/85d2d03d?page=18"> What’s your CAF story… – continued Ronald </a>
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