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This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion not met Supporting materials: criterion met

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Which wing? - the opening is very incomplete!

Suggested improvements

This article has a lot of information and could be a B class article if attention was given to the following issues:

introduction: the article needs an introduction that summarises the entire article (currently it does not have this);
in line citations: another must for a B class, at least one per paragraph or block of information;
a more comprehensive narrative - also as mentioned above by a frustrated reader the opening of the history section does not make sense. It refers to "the wing", but what wing - I assume it is the 17th Bombardment Training Wing as detailed below the offending section, but this should be spelt out clearly;
finally it will need a copy edit.

Just a few ideas. Hope this helps. AustralianRupert (talk) 04:52, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/rso/airdivision_pages/0017ad.asp
- In 17th Air Division on 2011-05-25 02:00:04, 404 Not Found
- In 17th Air Division on 2011-06-01 22:08:39, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 22:09, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]