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Article: President Bush speaks to Travis audience.(Brief Article)
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- November 1, 2001
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. (AFPN) -- The U.S. military's real strength is not in aircraft weapon systems, but in the men and women who fly them and maintain them, and "the people who make the military go."
That was the message President George W. Bush directed to military members during a stopover at Travis Air Force Base en route to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shanghai, China, in October.
He discussed the current campaign against terrorism. "We can be alert, and we will be alert. But we must show them that they cannot terrorize the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. And we won't. We will not be terrorized; we will not be ...