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London cuts 100 RAF student pilots of airplanes and helicopters

London, United Kingdom - In addition to aircraft and fighter-bombers, in the context of reduction of defense spending. But the military protest

It's of today the news, released by the British press, about the cuts the would are being implemented, according to plans announced already in October 2010, in defense of the United Kingdom, to reduce the deficit of the Country. This would affect both the personnel and the means used by ground troops and by RAF, Royal Air Force: more precisely, could be discharged 100 (that is 1/4) of the student...

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Rome, Italy, 02/14/2011 17:08
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