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Johnny Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force 69 years ago this month. “[It] taught me the things every military service imparts to its enlisted men,” Cash later said, “plus one skill that’s pretty unusual: if you ever need to know what one Russian is signaling to another in Morse code, I’m your man.”