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    BUFF DRIVER

    Oct 30, 2018 2 minutes
    BY CARL VON WODTKE

    For 28-year-old U.S. Air Force Captain Julian Gluck, piloting a big bomber more than twice his age is all in a day’s work. Gluck currently serves as an aircraft commander on the Boeing B-52H Stratofortress, flying out of Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana with the 20th Bomb Squadron “Buccaneers.” Incredibly,

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