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Traditional hat toss and flyover by Air Force Thunderbirds at the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy Logo of the Air Force Academy. The United States Air Force Academy is an undergraduate college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Air Force and United States Space Force.
Talon 64-0568, flown as Foxtrot 35 by 8th SOS commander Lt Col James L. Hobson [57] and with the commander of the Twenty-Third Air Force, Maj Gen William J. Mall, Jr., aboard as a passenger, combat-dropped runway clearing teams from the Ranger Battalions on the airport, despite being targeted by a searchlight and under heavy AAA fire.
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. Mueller, Robert (1989). Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
On 6 April 1990, at Peterson Air Force Base Colorado the 1017th Test and Evaluation Squadron was activated. [1] The mission of the 1017th was to perform Air Staff-directed initial and follow-on operational test and evaluation of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) space surveillance, missile warning, and command and control systems.
Marc Sasseville – Retired Air Force lieutenant general and F-16 fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF Major Heather Penney, Major Daniel Caine and Captain Brandon Rasmussen) on 9/11 was to find United Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, including ramming the aircraft.
The commander of the 12th Airborne Command and Control Squadron is an air force position held by a lieutenant colonel. The 12 ACCS is responsible for organizing, equipping, and ensuring the combat capability of more than 200 airmen in the Air Force's first E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System operational squadron.
Lieutenant Colonel: USAF: 428th Tactical Fighter Squadron: Operation Combat Lancer: North Vietnam: Copilot of F-111A #66-024 that disappeared on a solo night bombing mission [176] Presumptive finding of death [3] April 24: Crossman, Gregory J: 1st Lieutenant: USAF: 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron: Operation Rolling Thunder: North Vietnam ...
Squadron guidon that was used during the Vietnam war, now in the conference room of the 10th Communications Squadron. The 1876th Communications Squadron was a unit of the United States Air Force that performed communications functions in the Republic of Vietnam from 1965 to 1972 during the Vietnam War and then at the United States Air Force Academy from April 1972, where it was upgraded to a ...