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  2. 18th Wing - Wikipedia

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    Republic F-105D-31-RE Thunderchief, AF Ser. No. 62-4375, 12th TFS/18th TFW on 18 May 1971. Noted in October 2003 at the Combat Air Museum, Topeka, KS and still there October 2006, this F-105 was the last of its kind in use with any US military service when retired from the Air National Guard in 1983.

  3. Staff (military) - Wikipedia

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    A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the ...

  4. Combat service support - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the term combat service support has been phased-out in favor of the term "sustainment." [3] but the mission remains the same; to manage the logistics supply chain and provide all materiel, maintenance, transportation, health services, personnel services and other services required by the warfighting units to permit those units to accomplish their missions in combat.

  5. Flight service station - Wikipedia

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    The Lone Rock Flight Service Station from 1928 to 1985, in the EAA Aviation Museum. A flight service station (FSS) [1] is an air traffic facility that provides information and services to aircraft pilots before, during, and after flights, but unlike air traffic control (ATC), is not responsible for giving instructions or clearances or providing separation.

  6. XVIII Airborne Corps - Wikipedia

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    The present XVIII Airborne Corps was constituted in the Regular Army on 14 January 1942, five weeks after the entry of the United States into World War II, as the II Armored Corps, and was activated on 17 January 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana, under the command of Major General William Henry Harrison Morris, Jr.

  7. Uniformed services of the United States - Wikipedia

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    When acting under federal direction, the National Guard is managed by the National Guard Bureau, which is a joint Army and Air Force activity under the Department of Defense, [13] [14] [15] with a 4-star general [13] [14] from the Army or Air Force appointed as its top leader. However, in federal service, command and control of National Guard ...

  8. Former US Army civilian employee sentenced to 15 years for ...

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    A Texas woman who was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development ...

  9. Combat Sustainment Support Battalion - Wikipedia

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    A Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB) is a combat service support battalion of the United States Army. A CSSB can be attached to a sustainment brigade to support the brigade combat teams and support brigades assigned to a corps with maintenance, transportation, supply, field services, and distribution functions. The CSSB is task ...