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unusual facts about USAF



26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

On March 22, two MV-22 Osprey, containing a payload of twenty five Recon Marines as a TRAP force, and operated by the 26th MEU operating off of the USS Kearsage recovered the pilot of a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle who ejected after an equipment malfunction.

908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

The 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron is a provisional United States Air Force (USAF) unit.

Anshan Teng'ao Airport

In Tom Clancy's novel The Bear and the Dragon, Anshan Air Base is heavily damaged by USAF F-117 stealth fighters to neutralize it in preparation for a raid on a nearby ICBM launch site.

Center for Studies and Research in Aeronautical Medicine

Because of its relevance in the field of medicine, it was visited in 1965 by Col. John Glenn, USAF, the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth.

Dale Franks

As such, Franks is a graduate of the USAF Air Base Ground Defense (ABGD) course at Camp Bullis, TX, where he was also trained as an M60 Machine Gun Specialist, and Franks remained an ABGD Specialist for his entire tour of service in the USAF.

Dandong Langtou Airport

Antung Airfield was a major base for People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and Korean People's Air Force (KPAF) fighters during the Korean War used in the defense of the supply lines across the Yalu River to the North Korean city of Sinuiju and for engaging attacking USAF aircraft in the area that became known as MiG Alley.

Douglas B-66 Destroyer

RB-66s were used as the major night photo-reconnaissance aircraft of the USAF during this time, many examples serving with tactical reconnaissance squadrons based in the United Kingdom and in West Germany.

Firsby railway station

Between 1943 and 1958 Firsby station was kept busy as the nearest railhead staging point for RAF and later USAF airmen travelling to and from the nearby RAF Spilsby airfield at Great Steeping.

General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven

On 17 January 1991, a USAF EF-111 crew of Captain James Denton and Captain Brent Brandon ("Brandini") achieved an unofficial kill against an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1, which they managed to maneuver into the ground, making it the only member of the F-111/FB-111/EF-111 family to achieve an aerial victory over another aircraft.

Geoffrey D. Stephenson

, the party of Air Commodore Stephenson, accompanied by 30 RAF and USAF officers, flew to Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, for interment at the Royal Air Force plot there.

Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr

USAF Lieutenant Colonel Joseph L. Romano, at the time of the conviction commander of the 37th Training Group of the 37th Training Wing, and 21 of the American defendants received five-year prison sentences.

Henrik H Bull

As a first lieutenant in the USAF, Bull was stationed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and worked with Buckminster Fuller on developing the geodesic radar domes for the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) system at the north slope of Alaska.

Horizontal boring machine

The accuracy of this machine convinced the USAF to accept John Parson's idea for numerically controlled machine tools.

Iraqi Police

Later in the program, the duties began to be filled by USAF Security Forces members.

Itek

Richard Leghorn was a former United States Air Force (USAF) aerial reconnaissance expert who had first proposed flying reconnaissance missions over enemy territory in peacetime.

J35

Allison J35, the 1946 USAF's first axial-flow compressor engine

Joe Duckworth

Joseph Duckworth (1902–1964), USAF pilot, first man to fly into a hurricane

Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar

During the Persian Gulf War it managed to score a few positive publicity notes for detecting early launches of Iraqi Scud missile attacks; years later, a USAF assessment would emerge revealing that oversights at the base were partly responsible for one of the worst disasters for Coalition forces during the war, on 26 February 1991 when an Iraqi Scud missile broke up above Dhahran and fell into a warehouse housing U.S. soldiers, killing 28 and injuring more than 100.

Kenny Noble Cortes

He graduated from the USAF Academy Prep School and received an appointment to the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

Lieutenant commander

On service khakis and all working uniforms, lieutenant commanders wear a gold oak leaf collar device, similar to the ones worn by a majors in the USAF and Army, and identical to that worn by majors in the Marine Corps.

Lloyd R. Leavitt, Jr.

(born November 18, 1928) was an American Air Force lieutenant general who was vice commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.

Maryland Air National Guard

The 175 WG has two active USAF gaining commands: the Air Combat Command for its fighter aircraft and United States Air Forces in Europe for its 235th Civil Engineer Flight.

Military disc-shaped aircraft

In the US, a number of experimental saucer shaped craft were apparently developed as black projects by Lockheed Corporation for the USAF, and by Convair for the CIA.

Mitiga International Airport

After the USAF left, Wheelus became a Libyan People's Air Force installation and was renamed Okba Ben Nafi Air Base.

Montana Air National Guard

Under the "Total Force" concept, Montana Air National Guard units are considered to be Air Reserve Components (ARC) of the United States Air Force (USAF).

Naval Air Station Bermuda

The US Navy moved its anti-submarine air-patrol operations from the old NAS Bermuda flying boat base, to the USAF Base at Kindley Field when its Martin P5M Marlin flying boats were removed from service in the 1960s.

Nicole Malachowski

After successfully completing her tour with the USAF Thunderbirds in November 2007, including approximately 140 performances, Malachowski served on staff of the Commander, United States Air Force Warfare Center, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to June 2008.

NTTR

Nevada Test and Training Range, a USAF military region that began as the Tonopah Bombing Range

Orly Air Base

In 1954 USAF C-124 transports assisted the French by airlifting 500 paratroop/commandos and their equipment to Indochina, landing at Da Nang's Tourane Airfield.

PasComSat

Passive Communications Satellite or PasComSat, also known as OV1-8 was a communications satellite launched by USAF as part of the Orbiting Vehicle program.

PJ DeBoy

He and Paul also share family connections: both are cousins of Delegate Steven J. DeBoy, Sr. and Col. Mark Allen (USAF-AFDW, Ret.), and (like Delegate DeBoy and Col. Allen) hail from the Farrell-DeBoy family of Baltimore.

Rachel Hayward

She is remembered by many science fiction fans as the USAF Sergeant who is abducted by Apophis in the opening moments of the Stargate SG-1 pilot.

Radio Solar Telescope Network

The USAF/RSTN system is currently being upgraded in frequency to a bandwidth from 25 MHz to 180 MHz by the Solar Radio Spectrometer (SRS) system at Palehua, Hawaii; San Vito dei Normanni, Italy; Sagamore Hill, Massachusetts; and RAAF Learmonth, Western Australia.

Richard R. Muller

Dr Richard R. Muller is professor of airpower history within the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at the USAF's Air University in Montgomery, Alabama.

Robert C. Miller

Col. Robert C. Miller, USAF (b. 1920, d. 1998), was an American meteorologist, who pioneered severe convective storms forecasting and applied research, developing an empirical forecasting method, identifying many features associated with severe thunderstorms, a forecast checklist and manuals, and is known for the first official tornado forecast (1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes), and it verified, in 1948.

Robert Moorman

Great-grandfather of Thomas Samuel Moorman (July 11, 1910 – December 23, 1997) – Lt. Gen USAF, Commandant United States Air Force Academy 1965 - 1970

Samizu Matsuki

During this period 1964 to 1968, Matsuki visited Rome and painted commissioned portraits for five Air Force officers and their wives, and was commissioned by the Officers Club of the 49th Tactical Squadron to paint a portrait of the recently deceased USAF fighter ace Richard Bong

Scaled Composites Proteus

Scaled, in partnership with Northrop Grumman, is offering a fully unmanned version of the Proteus, labeled Model 395, as part of the competition for the USAF Hunter-Killer competition.

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

In March 2002, A-10s assigned to the 23d Fighter Group arrived in Jacobabad, Pakistan, and later became the first USAF fixed-winged aircraft to enter Afghanistan to fight the war on terrorism.

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

The Sabres began to play a role in the Vietnam War in 1965, when their air defence responsibilities expanded to include protection of USAF aircraft using Ubon as a base for strikes against North Vietnam.

Taejon Airfield

Taejon Airfield also known as K-5 Air Base was a former United States Air Force (USAF) and Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) air base northwest of the city of Taejon, South Korea.

Tail gunner

On 18 December 1972, during Operation Linebacker II (also known as President Richard Nixon's, "Christmas Bombing"), USAF B-52 Stratofortresses of the Strategic Air Command conducted a maximum effort bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

Tamara Johansen

First Lieutenant Tamara Johansen, USAF (also known as T.J.) is a fictional character in the Canadian-American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Syfy television series Stargate Universe, a military science fiction serial drama about the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team unable to return to Earth after an evacuation to the Ancient spaceship Destiny, which is travelling in a distant corner of the universe.

The American Way

Named after the USAF/USN North American X-15 from the X-plane series of 1960's experimental aircraft.

Weatherby Mark V

This is due in part to Roy Weatherby who presented the rifles to royalty, politicians, gun writers and actors including Prince Abdorreza Pahlavi of Iran, Generals James Doolittle (USAF) and Chuck Yeager (USAF), Jack O'Connor, Warren Page, Elgin Gates and Lorne Greene and was able to use this fact as a marketing tool.

Wendell L. Griffin

Major General Wendell Lee Griffin, USAF, is a retired American Air Force officer who served as the Chief of Safety of the United States Air Force from 2007 to 2009.

White Glacier

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for General Thomas D. White, United States Air Force (USAF), Chief of Staff and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1957–61, who participated in the planning and organizational stages of Operation Deep Freeze in an administrative capacity and in matters relating to aircraft.


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