Chuck Yeager going strong
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Chuck Yeager, center, salutes to a row of service members on his way to a speech celebrating his 85th birthday at Beale Air Force Base on Wednesday.
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Chuck Yeager first came to Beale Air Force Base in 1943, when it was an Army installation called Camp Beale.
Stationed at the Oroville Army Air Field at the time, he came to Beale for training, which he described as "crawling under barbed wire while they was . Read Chuck Yeager going strong...
