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Base: Kirtland Air Force Base

State: New Mexico (NM)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Dave Nolan, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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Technical Sergeant Victoria Franco Querido spent three years as a civilian before returning to the medical technician career field. Photograph is part of the article, "Paradise not Lost." AIRMAN Magazine, August 1999

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Some folks say Oasis, Utah is a "One-horse Town," without the horse. It's small, but not really a town, or on a map. It's the site of the Air Force compound at the huge and remote Utah Testing and Training Range. This image was used in the April 2000 AIRMAN Magazine article "Home, Home on the Range"

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