Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Overall, the Nevada Air National Guard maintains a presence in three of the state's 17 counties with a 64-acre (260,000 m 2) site on the southwest corner of the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, a detachment on Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas and at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs. About 65 Nevada Guard airmen work at the ...
Marine F-4 pilots claimed three enemy MiGs (two while on exchange duty with the USAF) at the cost of 75 aircraft lost in combat, mostly to ground fire, and four in accidents. On 18 January 1992, the last Marine Phantom, an F-4S, was retired by VMFA-112 Cowboys .
The wartime 408th Fighter Squadron was re-activated and re-designated as the 192nd Fighter Squadron, and was allotted to the Nevada Air National Guard, on 24 May 1946.It was organized at Reno Air Force Base, Nevada and was extended federal recognition on 12 April 1948 by the National Guard Bureau.
The Nevada Air National Guard's 152nd Airlift Wing has a primary wartime mission of providing rapid airlift and airdrop of cargo and troops. They can also fly specialized reconnaissance missions in support of military command and control operations, counter drug operations, disaster relief and photo mapping for federal and state agencies.
Proposed lightweight air superiority-only fighter version; none built. [32] F-4 (FVS) Proposed version with airframe modified by Grumman to use variable geometry wings; none built. F-4X Proposed high-performance reconnaissance version with HIAC-1 LOROP camera for Israel developed under the Peace Jack program in conjunction with General Dynamics ...
Video footage of fire containment efforts shows a California Air National Guard plane attempting to suppress the fire by "dropping a line of fire retardant on the Palisades Fire in the mountains ...
During the war, the Nevada Air Guard suffered its only combat fatality in its history: Lt. Frank Salazar. After the war, the Nevada Air Guard entered a lease agreement with the city of Reno for land south of the airport, at Hubbard Field, present-day Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The 152nd Airlift Wing remains there today. In the 1950s, the ...
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.