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Reporter/editor for hire. Formerly @militarytimes @ASforcesmag @insidedefense @frednewspost @washingtonpost Secure: rachelscohen at protonmail dot com

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@rachelkaras

Rachel S. Cohen

24 days

If there's room on your team for an award-winning reporter/editor who's covered local and federal government for 10+ years, give me a shout. I'd love to continue covering the military but am open to other opportunities. There's so much to say but I'll stop here for now. (2/2)

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@rachelkaras

Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

BREAKING: JUDGE CONVICTS MAJ. GEN. BILL COOLEY ON SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGE IN FIRST-EVER MILITARY TRIAL VERDICT FOR AN AIR FORCE GENERAL

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

policy reporters trying to focus on their own stuff while impeachment world unfolds

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Rachel S. Cohen

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BREAKING: . @usairforce grants zero religious exemptions to airmen and guardians looking to avoid the COVID-19 vaccination. It approved 1,866 exemptions, largely medical.

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

The military: "No one wants to join because they don't understand what we do" Also the military:

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

Working to confirm, but looks like new @SpaceForceDoD ranks are out: specialist instead of airman basic, etc.

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Attention bomber design nerds: The @usairforce gave you a new rendering of the @northropgrumman B-21. Says it's $639 million per plane.

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Rachel S. Cohen

24 days

I was laid off from @militarytimes today. It has been my privilege to tell the stories of Americans in uniform and I'll miss the talented, dogged team of reporters and editors that made the past three years special. (1/2)

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

I mean, some of us do...

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Anderson Cooper: How are you going to pay for all of this? @AOC : Nobody asks how we're going to pay for the 'space force'

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Rachel S. Cohen

10 months

The infamous ~professional news~ update: After seven years of covering the Air Force, I'm stepping into a new role as the editor of @AirForceTimes . Really excited to run a publication that's been an independent voice for U.S. troops since 1947.

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

First commute in 14 months. I missed this so much.

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

~ tfw you end up in the E-4B jump seat ~

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

EXCLUSIVE: A @usairforce investigation of a fatal fighter jet crash in 2020 quietly discovered that key components of the pilot’s ejection seat may have been counterfeit. Now his widow is suing @LockheedMartin , @CollinsAero and @DefenseTeledyne .

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

You guys there is a man attempting to (very slowly) steal a dragon-shaped paddleboat from National Harbor and the cops are SO exasperated

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Rachel S. Cohen

15 days

Hey I won an award for this story today. Invest in reporters who care about telling the human stories behind the multibillion-dollar defense budget and U.S. military policy. (Hire me)

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Inside the Air Force’s massive mobility war game in the Pacific

Mobility Guardian, a massive exercise for airlift and aerial refueling, involved 3,000 troops and 70 mobility aircraft from the U.S. and six allies.

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

This is the only airplane I will thank for its service

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Valerie Insinna

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2 years

@rachelkaras Literally can’t stop laughing at the idea of airplanes “serving to defend the country” as if they enlisted or something

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Rachel S. Cohen

24 days

Sometimes people ask why I want to cover the military if I'm not prior service/mil brat. It's simple: These are ordinary Americans asked to do extraordinary things as part of the world's biggest war machine, at a time when the public is increasingly disconnected from troops.

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

#journalism

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

@mateodechicago Top three are spot on but since when is Kentucky considered part of the Midwest?

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

Fun fact: ICBMs launch higher into space before coming down than the International Space Station... so DOD has to deconflict with the astronauts to make sure they aren't in the way

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Rachel S. Cohen

1 year

Happy birthday to the most ridiculous Space Force tweet of all time

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United States Space Force

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Can you imagine your loved ones coming down from the attic with your medals, achievements and honors asking about the time you shaped the strategic environment? How would you even begin to explain that--by being part of the shaping.

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

News you can use: Air Mobility Command is buying a Kraken costume, which must have between 8-10 tentacles but no clothes.

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

could we perhaps stop pursuing sixth-generation fighters until the Air Force FOIA site starts accepting requests through a browser other than Internet Explorer

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Personal update: Today is my last day at @AirForceMag . I'll be your go-to girl for Air Force and Space Force news at @AirForceTimes starting March 15. Excited to jump more into the personnel and ops world. Say hi and send tips/documents/whatever's on your mind ✈🚀📰

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

Personal news: Today is my last day at @insidedefense after 2+ years covering the Air Force and four years at IWP. I'm so thankful for everything the company taught me and I'm excited for new adventures with @AirForceMag .

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

the acronym game has gone too far

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

B-1B Lancer bomber (doesn't carry nuclear weapons) had a bad time last night. Unclear if the aircraft is salvageable.

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

I nominate this for Space Force mess dress

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The Cut

4 years

Janelle Monáe is here to take. your. breath. away. #Oscars

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

I need you to know that the Korean language analysts at @Offutt_AFB have this hanging in their workspace:

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

@allyschweitzer "I am so grateful to you that I am going to try to out you in front of a large group of people on camera"

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

"The fighter jet era has passed," @elonmusk tells a giant gathering of the Air Force. An audible murmur ripples through the room. #AWS20

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

Apparently @Zachary_Cohen did break @ChrisEvans news: he's venturing into that oh-so-stable industry, media

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2 years

My very professional opinion about Top Gun 2 is that the National Defense Strategy should really be focusing on buying F-14s and keeping pilots in grade 30 years longer than they should be.

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

Climbed up inside this guy, the first US Open Skies aircraft getting digital cameras instead of the ancient wet-film cameras

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

@MNateShyamalan *pat pat* shh, Detroit, sure you do

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Rachel S. Cohen

1 year

Celebrated turning 32 last week by spilling champagne all over a C-17

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

What millennial is sleeping an average of nine hours and what are their secrets

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Ben Pershing

5 years

This seems like a lot, for both groups: “On average, millennials got nine hours of shut-eye each day, compared with 8.6 hours recorded by their older peers.”

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

It's my first day @AirForceTimes ! Tell me all your secrets at rcohen @militarytimes .com.

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

I came into contact with a covid-positive person the day before he came down with a fever. I have symptoms of something but my doctor told me not to get a test because that would mean leaving my house. They're not prescribing me anything. I am talking about this.

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Yamiche Alcindor

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My Q: When will everyone who needs a coronavirus test be able to get a test? Pres Trump: “No-one is talking about this except you, which doesn’t surprise me." My Q: What about people w/ symptoms who cannot get a test? Trump: "Yeah, well, OK. I’m not— I'm not hearing it."

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Air Force Reddit has ... a lot of feelings about the Ukraine situation.

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

@haroldsmith3rd @natsfert And the fourth one squeezed in at the bottom!!

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

An airman I spoke to yesterday told me: "I had a white male boss call me Aunt Jemima in front of my peers. They all laughed and I was shocked. I stood there staring, unable to respond, and he slowly realized it wasn’t appropriate."

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@RavenTiaraBrown

4 years

NEW: Aunt Jemima brand will change name, remove image that Quaker says is 'based on a racial stereotype'

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4 years

@steffanwatkins @saronfanel @ctvottawa he'll use the ladder when he's good and ready

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

It's been four years, guys

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

New from me: An oral history of the @DMAFB 41st Electronic Combat Squadron's two-decade Compass Call deployment to Afghanistan, from the first missions after 9/11 to packing up Bagram last summer. I loved these interviews and hope you read it.

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This Compass Call squadron was deployed in Afghanistan for 20 years. Here’s their inside story.

The EC-130H Compass Call worked behind the scenes for two decades in Afghanistan, from supporting the arrival of special forces, to the bin Laden raid and the Kabul evacuation.

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Rachel S. Cohen

1 year

Last month, I flew with the Air Force to Guam for a week to watch Mobility Guardian, a 3,000-person exercise practicing rapid response in the Pacific. Here's what I saw.

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Inside the Air Force’s massive mobility war game in the Pacific

Mobility Guardian, a massive exercise for airlift and aerial refueling, involved 3,000 troops and 70 mobility aircraft from the U.S. and six allies.

www.airforcetimes.com

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

Department of the Air Force confirms this is real.

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

NEWS: The Air Force is developing a new air-to-air missile, the AIM-260, that will fly on fighter jets starting in 2022 and eventually replace @Raytheon 's AMRAAM.

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Anyone interested in adopting @DanieljGross 's dog? He's in northwest South Carolina. Look at this face! #AdoptDontShop @darth @dog_rates @dog_feelings

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4 years

@davidalim @SpaceForceDoD not American but Sea Lord still wins

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Rachel S. Cohen

1 year

Received an email telling me that I'm losing credibility by referring to fighter aircraft as "jets" so I will be calling them zoomers from now on

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

. @Boeing brings us this snippet of video of the X-37B spaceplane on orbit and retracting its solar panels.

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Goooood morning fan club

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

Going to tell my kids this was the Space Force

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Lauren McKenzie

2 years

This is how I know we’re in the bad timeline

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

F-15EX, F-22, F-35, X-32

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

New name, who dis

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

Happy 4 years to my light in dark times, role model, adventure buddy, dog dad extraordinaire, and the best Zach Cohen in D.C. journalism 💕

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

One for you #avgeeks ✈️😷

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

We're your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, lovers, fellow human beings. We are not the powerful, controlling, wealthy overlords of the stereotypes. Be aware of the effects of dehumanizing tropes.

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1 year

Baby's first MRE

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5 years

Honestly i'm all for rule of law but i'm kind of team dragon boat

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

are we sure this isn't a defense contractor's Washington office

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Rap-Up

4 years

Pharrell has listed his Beverly Hills mansion for $17 million

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2 years

Maj. Brandon Bailey was kicked out after a court-martial in 2010, but DOD continued paying him for seven years. So he kept the money and used a glitch to defraud multiple federal agencies, financial institutions and employers. His sentencing is Wednesday.

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A major was kicked out for stealing narcotics. Then he took $820,000 from the Air Force.

For the past two years, former Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey has been the subject of a federal investigation into a complex web of financial and bankruptcy fraud he spun over the course of a decade.

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Here's Staff Sgt. Morin and the C-130J window, both battered:

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

A C-130J loadmaster was hit in the head by shrapnel when enemy fire in Afghanistan broke the airplane window she was watching from. She received a Purple Heart last year; the aircrew earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medals this month.

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Gen. Nick Carter: does not want it that way.

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Joe Gould

3 years

Britain’s top general is unhappy about U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal plans via @defense_news

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

. @usairforce 's new Combat Rescue Helicopter exists and it is in the air!

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

Ten (10!) whole years ago today, in the era of terrible cell phone cameras, two infants went out to dinner and one of them had no idea it was a first date but managed to figure it out by the time they got married. (I love you)

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

Here's a bit from a Black woman I spoke to over the summer. Former active-duty airman who served in the National Guard until 2014.

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@AlexanderMcCoy4

Alexander McCoy

@AlexanderMcCoy4

4 years

Just an observation about the media: We’ve gotten dozens of request from political reporters asking to be connected with veterans who became right-wing extremists. But we’ve gotten zero interest in the perspective of POC troops who had to cope with extremists in their units.

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3 years

I hear 30s are the best decade. Let's go.

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

It was nice seeing my husband, a Senate reporter who often covers the judiciary, for a few months this year.

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

OK we've reached peak Adam Levine meme

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Luke Metro 🥥

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

A C-130J loadmaster was hit in the head by shrapnel when enemy fire in Afghanistan broke the airplane window she was watching from. She received a Purple Heart last year; the aircrew earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medals this month.

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C-130J crew honored after loadmaster wounded during attack in Afghanistan

Airmen from the 61st Airlift Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, were flying a mission in support of a quick-reaction force when their Super Hercules came under small-arms fire.

www.airforcetimes.com

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Rachel S. Cohen

1 year

#BM100

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Benedict Cumberbatch is feeling a bit under the weather today.

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

Has anyone considered sending a trucker convoy in to interrupt the Russians

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Rachel S. Cohen

1 year

@keithdunn not sure if it's better to ask nondescript guy his name or just keep on with the nickname

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Zach and I got our first vaccine doses today. It's overwhelming to feel possibilities again. I am so grateful.

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

. @torybruno has some thoughts about what low Earth orbit launch might look like in 50 years.

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Here's What Tory Bruno Thinks About the Future of Space Launch | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Delivery from the ground to LEO will become a commodity, and will connect to a network of in-space transportation options, ULA boss Tory Bruno said.

www.airandspaceforces.com

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

SECOND DOSE IS IN, START MAKING YOUR PLANS TO HUG US 💉 #teammoderna

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Rachel S. Cohen

24 days

Their experiences matter. How they are treated matters. What they do, at home and overseas, matters. Coverage of the daily business of the military is almost nonexistent now, erased from most local papers and much of mainstream news. It's a disservice to troops and our democracy.

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

@elonmusk "He's right," some guy behind me muttered.

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

Fan club members out in full force tonight. Look, I'm human and I make mistakes. Sometimes dumb words just find their way in. It's been fixed.

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

Any questions?

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Lololol

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

Sharing this now that it's over: we wanted a nod to our profession, our local paper and our time at @washingtonpost , but the Internet has pretty slim pickings on news-inspired merch... so I made my own. My little InDesign-nerd heart was so happy. #partylikeajournalist

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Rachel S. Cohen

1 year

I told the wing commander that sitting in an F-35 wasn't as cool as going into an ICBM silo and thankfully he didn't throw me off the base

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

This is 29.

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Rachel S. Cohen

6 years

It's funny how attached reporters get to our bylines. This is my last week of writing as Rachel S. Karas, who I've been since I started reporting as a little baby high schooler in 2006. I'm a little sad to change it, but I'm excited to see where Rachel S. Cohen will go, too. 😊💍

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4 years

When this is over, I promise never to skip an in-person event in favor of a livestream ever ever ever again.

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Rachel S. Cohen

4 years

Bringing this look back 2021

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

It's not just regular Texans being hit with exorbitant energy bills from the cold snap: Fort Hood's electric bill jumped to about $30 million for the month of February, about the same amount the base paid for energy in all of fiscal 2020. The Army is appealing it.

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

. @Offutt_AFB has a British Rivet Joint here for the first time, teaching UK maintainers new sustainment processes

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

I tried to FOIA the Article 32 hearing report on TSgt David Dezwaan, the airman accused of detonating explosives that injured other Americans at a U.S. outpost in Syria. In response, the Air Force told me they don't know if I'm reportery enough to get free info in a timely manner

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Rachel S. Cohen

3 years

Good morning. This is a story about a lot of things, with a lot of new details, but at its heart, it's a story about how long you can bend a stressed force before it starts to break. I'm proud of how it turned out and I hope you'll read it.

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Military Times

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‘A perfect storm’: The 325th Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, may be nearing a breaking point as it approaches its third year in limbo after Hurricane Michael.

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3 years

@AthertonKD would gladly take my covid shot via air-fired M&M too

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I found @ImpalerCat 's ride.

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Rachel S. Cohen

5 years

There's been a lot of chatter lately about women in defense, so I wanted to look at the Air Force's role in that conversation. The service is headed toward its fourth female secretary, while the Army and Navy are yet to have their first. I tried to make sense of what that means.

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Air & Space Forces Magazine

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What can the Army and Navy learn from #USAF ’s female secretaries? Find out at .

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5 years

*boop*

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

Imagine them pulling the sheet off of the B-21 and it's actually 21 teeny tiny bombers stuck together

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Rachel S. Cohen

2 years

Doing my best to keep up with these guys, in reporting and in height.

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