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unusual facts about US Air Force



20th Operational Weather Squadron

The two stars indicate the services, US Air Force and U.S. Army, that the unit supports by providing meteorological information.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

In the trailer the US Air Force is engaged in dogfighting with Russian fighters over Miami.

Armalite AR-5

The AR-5 was the basis of the MA-1 aircrew survival rifle, adopted by the US Air Force in 1956, as a replacement for the M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon.

BLU-82

The US Air Force dropped several BLU-82s during the campaign to destroy Taliban and al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan to attack and demoralize personnel and to destroy underground and cave complexes.

Hans Mauch

The company also introduced the Sterotoner, an early text-to-speech device for the blind, worked on human factors research, and developed an advanced spacesuit for NASA and the US Air Force.

M. Stephen Heilman

Instead, he joined the US Air Force to satisfy a deferred military service obligation and was stationed in Soesterberg, the Netherlands, where he spent two years as the Medical Officer in Charge of the 654th U.S. Airforce Tactical Hospital.

Route Package

A Route Package were the names given by the US Air Force and US Navy to describe areas of air operations over North Vietnam.

Saints, Seine-et-Marne

For a short period of time, this village became the operating base of almost the entire US Air Service, the predecessor of the US Air Force.

Southeast Air Defense Sector

The Southeast Air Defense Sector (SEADS), was a unit of the US Air Force located at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida.

The Big Green Egg

The mushikamado first came to the attention of the Americans after World War II when US Air Force servicemen would bring them back from Japan in empty transport planes.

United States Air Force Web Posting Response

The United States Air Force Web Posting Response Assessment is a twelve-point plan developed by the Emerging Technology Division of the US Air Force’s Affairs Agency that illustrates how US Airmen should respond to online blogs.

Wired for War

The book was a non-fiction book of the year by the Financial Times and named to the official reading lists for the US Air Force, US Navy, and Royal Australian Navy.

Zamboanga International Airport

Gemini Air Cargo's DC-10 was once in Zamboanga Airport for delivery of the materials needed for the US Air Force training.


see also

459th

459th Air Refueling Wing, US Air Force Reserve Command unit based at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility since 1954

Alexander Zeitlin

The Heavy Press Program was under the direction of the US Air Force for installation at two locations because, from a strategic standpoint two locations were needed; Alcoa Cleveland, OH and Wyman Gordon, North Grafton, MA.

Andrew Hardie, Baron Hardie

The trial itself was held in a special sitting of the High Court of Justiciary, sitting as the Scottish Court in the Netherlands, at Camp Zeist, a former US Air Force base in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Berlin Brigade

Based in Silopi, Turkey, near the Iraqi border, from July to October 1991, these ground forces were soon withdrawn to avoid entanglement in the local Turkish-PKK conflict and because it was decided that the US Air Force presence at Incirlik constituted an adequate deterrent to Iraqi attempts at encroaching on the Kurdish autonomous zone.

Diamond DA20

Doss Aviation, under contract for the US Air Force, currently operates a fleet of DA-20s at the Pueblo Memorial Airport in the Initial Flight Screening (IFS) program.

Erika Eiffel

September 2003, Erika's case was brought to light by John Ferrugia of Denver 7 News after US Congress established the Fowler Commission to investigate the growing number of sexual assault cases at the US Air Force Academy.

After serving enlisted in the US Air Force, Erika earned a congressional nomination to the US Air Force Academy in 1993 where her training to become an officer was interrupted by a sexual assault in which she defended herself with a Japanese training sword.

Fuchs Petrolub

Silkolene dedicated many years on technical cooperation with the US Air Force, and was also involved with the supersonic passenger aircraft, Concorde.

Grant-Valkaria, Florida

A MISTRAM missile tracking system was built by the US Air Force here in the early 1960s.

Guard-Lee

The company has created scale models of aircraft, rockets and space craft for numerous NASA centers including nearby Kennedy Space Center, the Smithsonian Institution, Walt Disney World and Universal Studios and the US Air Force.

IDEF

IDEF originally stood for ICAM Definition, initiated in the 1970s at the US Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio by Dennis E. Wisnosky, Dan L. Shunk and others.

John Harlan

John Harlin (1935–1966), American mountaineer and US Air Force pilot

Lieutenant

In the US Air Force, the Third Lieutenant Program refers specifically to a training program at active duty air force bases for cadets of the Air Force Academy and Air Force ROTC the summer before their fourth and final year before graduation and commissioning.

McGuire

McGuire Air Force Base, US Air Force base in Burlington County, New Jersey

MotionDSP

MotionDSP’s solutions support operational deployments within the US Department of Defense and National Intelligence agencies, and its customers also include the US Air Force, Navy, and some of the world’s leading video forensic labs such as the US Secret Service, NCIS, and the London Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard).

Raymond Wilkins

Raymond H. Wilkins (1917–1943, US Air Force officer, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

Robert Knapp

Robert D. Knapp (1897–1994), aviator and brigadier general, US Air Force

The Peacekeeper

It stars Dolph Lundgren as a Major in the US Air Force and the only man who can prevent the president being assassinated and with the ability to thwart an imposing nuclear holocaust.

USA-244

WGS-6 was procured by the Australian Defence Force for the US Air Force, in exchange for participation in the programme.

Wayne Fisk

In 1979, Fisk was honored as the first USAF enlisted man named to the US Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Men of America, the Military Airlift Command’s Senior NCO of the Year, the US Air Force’s Outstanding Airman in the Philippines; and a recipient of the Air Force Association’s Citation of Honor.