“Since ending the `stand-down' in September, the Air Force now requires every F-22 pilot to fly with a pulse oximeter strapped to a finger, measuring oxygen saturation in the blood.”

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— From a story in Tuesday’s Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, noting that if the oxygen level dips too low, the pilot must land. The F-22’s trouble providing its pilots with oxygen has led a “very small number” of them to decline the opportunity to fly the world’s most advanced air dominance fighter, General Mike Hostage, head of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command, said Monday.

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