The U.S. Air Force’s last serving former prisoner of war retired after taking his final flight June 5.
Lt. Col. Rob Sweet’s friends and family showered him with champagne as he stepped down from his A-10 Warthog at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia for the final time, 30 years after he spent 19 days in an Iraqi prisoner of war camp during the Gulf War.
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