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Squadron Name Insignia Nickname Command Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 9th Bomb Squadron: Bats [321] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 7 BW: 14 June 1917 Dyess AFB, Texas: B-1B [322] DY: 11th Bomb Squadron: Jiggs Squadron [citation needed] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 2 BW: 26 ...
48th Armored Division – "Hurricane". 49th Armored Division – "Lone Star"; referring to its status as a Texas National Guard formation, after the state's nickname. 50th Armored Division – "Jersey Blues"; referring to the fact that it was a New Jersey National Guard unit. This is today's 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
Roy Boehm – WWII Pacific War veteran. First commanding officer of SEAL Team Two (1962), considered godfather of all SEALs. Rudy Boesch – Founding member of SEAL Team Two in 1962 and Vietnam War veteran. He was a competitor in the TV reality shows Survivor and Survivor: All-Stars, and host of the reality series Combat Missions. Former ...
Sixty-one Canadians who were serving in the United States Armed Forces have received the Medal of Honor; most received it for actions in the American Civil War. Since 1900, only four have been awarded to Canadians. [10] In the Vietnam War, Peter C. Lemon was the only Canadian-born recipient of the Medal of Honor.
406th Fighter Squadron. Strasbourg/Entzheim Airport. P-47. Inactivated on 10 November 1945 - Consolidated on 19 September 1985 with the 506th Air Refueling Squadron. 407th Fighter Squadron. Alexandria Army Air Base. P-51. Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Redesignated 191st Fighter Squadron. 408th Fighter Squadron.
This is a list of active United States Navy aircraft squadrons. Deactivated or disestablished squadrons are listed in the list of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons. Navy aircraft squadrons are composed of several aircraft (from as few as about four to as many as about a dozen), the officers who fly them, the officers and sailors ...
A. Oscar Zeta Acosta – Attorney, Chicano Movement activist, novelist and close friend of American author Hunter S. Thompson. Charles J. Adams – brigadier general and aviator. John Agar – Film actor. Paul W. Airey – First Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. Frank Albertson – Film actor.
Delta Force bodyguards in civilian clothing providing close protection to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, 1991. Delta Force was created in 1977 after numerous well-publicized terrorist incidents led the U.S. government to develop a full-time counter-terrorism unit. Key military and government figures had already been briefed on ...