Lt. Col. Moon Milham, commander of the 162nd FW’s Air Sovereignty Alert Detachment, gets ready for a mission at Davis-Monthan AFB. Milham, an instructor pilot by trade, had a hand in training more than 440 F-16 pilots during his career. This year, First Air Force (Air Forces Northern) named him the 2010 Air Sovereignty Alert Pilot of the Year. [USAF photo by Maj. Gabe Johnson]
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In a post 9/11 world, hundreds of alert fighter pilots across the country know the feeling of sprinting to a jet at the shrieking sound of a klaxon - the piercing alarm that sends them into the skies to meet an unknown threat.
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