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Features
Cover Story: To the Rescue 44
Combat search-and-rescue teams ensure no servicemember is
left behind. By Mark Cantrell
MOAA’s mission
Picture This 50
Military Officers Association of America
MOAA readers snapped and submitted many memorable
(MOAA) is a nonprofit veterans’ as so ciation
images of military life. To honor those who serve and defend dedicated to main taining a strong national
our country, MOAA shares the winning entries of its fi fth
defense and to preserving the earned en-
annual photo contest.
titlements of members of the uniformed
services and their families and survivors.
Scourge of the Seas 56
Member ship is open to those who hold or
International piracy in the modern era is a high-seas — and high-
have ever held a warrant or commission in any
component of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy,
stakes — game of cat and mouse, with nations like the U.S. com-
Air Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Ser vice,
mitted to keeping the world’s sea-lanes safe. By Gina DiNicolo
or NOAA and their surviving spouses.
A Class of Their Own 60
On the cover: On a joint tactical recov-
MOAA’s annual awards honor the champions of America’s
ery team training exercise in Djibouti, Air
men and women in uniform. By Col. Marv Harris, USAF-Ret.,
Force personnel and simulated rescuees
director of Public Relations await a Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter.
PHOTOS: ABOVE, COL. WILLIAM SPENGLER, USAF-RET.; COVER, STAFF SGT. JOSEPH SWAFFORD, USAF JULY 2009 MILITARY OFFICER 1
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