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** FILE ** In this photo taken on Oct. 12, 2008, a U.S. Air Force U-2 plane takes off during an Air Power Day at the U.S. airbase in Osan, south of Seoul, South Korea. On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, an Air Force spokeswoman said that the United States is planning to retire its fabled U-2 spy planes from South Korea and replace them with unmanned drones. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
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FILE - This 2002 file photo provided by the National Park Service shows the launch key mechanism at the deactivated Delta Nine Launch Facility near Wall, S.D. Failings exposed last spring at an Air Force nuclear missile base, described by one officer as “rot” in the ranks, were even worse than originally reported, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. All the staff involved with missile operation at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., passed an inspection with a “marginal” rating, the equivalent of a D in school _ and that was only because of good marks received by people like cooks or facilities managers. The men and women entrusted with launch keys to 150 Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles would have flunked. (AP Photo/Minuteman Missile NHS)
