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  • Remembering Brigadier General Charles McGee

    MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala.— Brig. Gen. Charles McGee was one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen and died at 102 on Jan. 16, 2022. He joined the military at a time when becoming a pilot as an African American was inconceivable.