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77 unusual facts about United States Air Force


105th Air Refueling Squadron

The United States Air Force's 105th Air Refueling Squadron (105 ARS) is an aerial refueling unit that operates the KC-135 Stratotanker at AFB.

28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

The 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (28 EARS) is a provisional United States Air Force unit.

305th Air Refueling Squadron

The 305th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

307th Air Refueling Squadron

The 307th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

308th Air Refueling Squadron

The 308th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

320th Air Refueling Squadron

The 320th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

321st Air Refueling Squadron

The 321st Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

41st Air Refueling Squadron

The 41st Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

43d Air Refueling Squadron

The 43d Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

46th Air Refueling Squadron

The 46th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

709th Air Refueling Squadron

The United States Air Force's 709th Air Refueling Squadron (709 ARS) was an aerial refueling unit that operated the KC-135 Stratotanker at March AFB, California.

711th Air Refueling Squadron

The United States Air Force's 711th Air Refueling Squadron (711 ARS) was an aerial refueling unit that operated the KC-10 Extender at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina.

71st Air Refueling Squadron

The 71st Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

7455th Tactical Intelligence Wing

The 7455th Tactical Intelligence Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

902d Air Refueling Squadron

The 902d Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

903d Air Refueling Squadron

The 903d Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

904th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

The 904th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

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

90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

The 90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (90 EARS) is a provisional United States Air Force unit.

917th Air Refueling Squadron

The 917th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

920th Air Refueling Squadron

The 920th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

924th Air Refueling Squadron

The 924th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

Alexander Gonzalez

His service in the United States Air Force allowed him to utilize the G.I. Bill to earn his undergraduate degree in history at Pomona College.

Brian Bowman

Brian Bowman is a euphonium professor, performer and recording artist notable for having sat lead euphonium in the premier bands of both the United States Navy and the United States Air Force as well as having performed the first euphonium recital at Carnegie Hall.

BrightQube

BrightQube was started in 2007 by Lee Corkran, a decorated combat photographer for the United States Air Force.

Budweiser Rocket

Despite an unauthorized written speed certification by the United States Air Force, there is much debate over the validity of the claim.

Cam Ranh Bay

The United States Air Force operated a large cargo/airlift facility called Cam Ranh Air Base, which was also used as a tactical fighter base.

Chester A. Chesney

He entered the United States Air Force in June 1941 as a private and was discharged as a major in 1946 with service in the Pacific and European Theaters.

Chicksands Priory

In 1950 the United States Air Force took over and continued on the site until September 1995.

Chloe Sutton

Her father is a U.S. Air Force officer who was in the Pentagon at the time of the September 11 attacks and is a former football player who played for the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Colin O'Malley

Colin O'Malley (born on December 9, 1973) is a composer who has worked with CNN, the Walt Disney Company, the United States Air Force, Universal Studios, DC Comics and Electronic Arts.

Comet Man

Stephen Beckley was the son of Jack Beckley of the United States Air Force.

Compass Cope

Compass Cope was a program initiated by the United States Air Force to develop an upgraded reconnaissance Unmanned aerial vehicle.

Connie Pillich

Prior, she had a career in the United States Air Force, serving in support of Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield.

Dayton's Devils

Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal $2,500,000 from an Air Force base.

Dick Goddard

Goddard began his weather career while taking classes on meteorology during a stint with the United States Air Force from 1949 through the early 1950s.

Don Eaddy

After a fast start with Des Moines in 1956, Eaddy's career was interrupted when he was drafted to serve in the United States Air Force.

Dr. Creep

After an overseas stint in the Air Force, Hobart returned to southwest Ohio and was hired by WKEF television as a camera specialist and Master Control Operator.

Eames Lounge Chair Wood

In 1942 Charles left MGM to begin making molded plywood splints for the U.S. Air Force.

Edward Givens

Edward Galen "Ed" Givens, Jr (January 5, 1930 – June 6, 1967) was an United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut.

Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr.

Cheney was awarded grants for his research on approximation theory from the National Science Foundation, United States Air Force and United States Army as well as the UK Research Councils and the Italian Scientific Research Council, among others.

Eric Clemons

His daughter, 24, is an aspiring filmmaker graduating from Emerson College in 2010 and his son, 21, is a member of the United States Air Force.

Eric Schadt

In 1983, Schadt left high school early to enlist in the United States Air Force and joined a Special Operations/Rescue unit.

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.

Flight Officer Badge

The Navigator Badge and Aircrew Badge, variations of the Flight Officer Badge, are issued by the Air Force.

Grog

Honoring the 18th century British Army regimental mess and grog's historical significance in the military, the United States Navy, United States Air Force, and United States Army carry on a tradition at its formal dining in ceremonies whereby those in attendance who are observed to violate formal etiquette are "punished" by being sent to "the grog" and publicly drink from it in front of the attendees.

Ian Lewis

In 2008 he was appointed an Honorary Commander of the United States Air Force.

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.

Joseph Cyril Bamford

Working in supply and logistics, he returned to the African Gold Coast, to run a staging post for USAF planes being ferried to the Middle East.

Joseph Ligambi

He attended South Philadelphia High School before dropping out his junior year to join the United States Air Force, where he eventually earned his high school diploma.

Judy Buenoano

In 1971, she was married to James Goodyear (1934–1971), a sergeant in the United States Air Force.

Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2003

Physician and former Air Force pilot Ernie Fletcher won the Republican primary easily.

Linda A. Morabito

Linda Morabito married Major David Meyer (U.S. Air Force, Retired), an Associate Professor of Astronomy, in 2008.

Little Johnny Jet

He then finds out he and Mary are going to have a kid, so needing to find work, he heads off to reenlist in the Air Force, but finds even they won't take him back in, as they're looking for jets as well, which further angers him.

Lo'renzo Hill-White

After graduating high school, Hill-White joined the United States Air Force.

Major Anderson

Rudolf Anderson (15 September 1927 – 27 October 1962), a pilot and officer in the United States Air Force

Marion Keisker

Marion Keisker MacInnes (September 23, 1917 – December 29, 1989), born in Memphis, Tennessee, was a radio show host, station manager, U.S. Air Force officer, and assistant to Sam Phillips at Sun Records.

Mark Croucher

On leaving school at the age of 16, he attended Erith College (now Bexley College) for a year before enlisting in the United States Air Force at the age of 17, where he served for three years as a radio operator before taking an early discharge and returning to the UK to attend Merchant Navy College (formerly the Thames Nautical Training College), Greenhithe, Kent, qualifying as a Radio Officer in 1989.

Michael J. Saylor

Saylor was born in 1965 and spent his early years on various Air Force bases around the world, as his father was an Air Force chief master sergeant.

Michael N Schmitt

From 1979-1999, Schmitt was an intelligence officer and judge advocate in the United States Air Force.

Montana Air National Guard

As state militia units, the units in the Montana Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.

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).

No Enemy But Time

At less than 1-year old, John Monegal is abandoned by his mother and adopted by a USAF officer, Hugo Monegal and his wife Jeanette.

Nocton Hall

It was used by civilians and forces personnel until 1984, when it was leased to the USAF as a United States Air Force wartime contingency hospital.

Non-commissioned officer

In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, all ranks of sergeant are termed NCOs, as are corporals in the Army and Marine Corps.

Peter O. Price

After his stint in the United States Air Force, Price moved to New York City, where he served in city government as Counsel To The Taxi Commission and as Counsel to the New York Council on Child Psychiatry.

Politics of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi

After the 1986 bombing of Libya by the United States Air Force, Gaddafi decreed that the word "Great" should be appended to the beginning of the name, rendering its official name Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma, or Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Programmable read-only memory

The invention was conceived at the request of the United States Air Force to come up with a more flexible and secure way of storing the targeting constants in the Atlas E/F ICBM's airborne digital computer.

RAF Sturgate

In 1953 the station was allocated for use by the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command and the 508th Strategic Fighter Wing operating the Republic F-84 Thunderjet.

Skew-T log-P diagram

It was thus more suitable for some of the newer analysis techniques being invented by the United States Air Force.

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.

Stormy Rottman

After his experience with reporting weather conditions for the U.S. Air Force during World War II and the Korean War, Rottman began a civilian career as a weather presenter on both television and radio.

Technology readiness level

The United States Air Force adopted the use of Technology Readiness Levels in the 1990s.

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.

The Mad Scientists' Club

The early stories and the first book in the series were published in the wake of the impact of Sputnik and the space race and reflect the thinking of that period (the first book even includes a plug for joining the United States Air Force in the last story, "Night Rescue").

Timeline of the 2005 London bombings

In response to public pressure, the United States Air Force bases at RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk lift travel bans imposed on service personnel in the wake of the bombings.

University of North Texas System

1982–2002: Alfred Hurley, PhD & Brig. Gen. USAF (Ret.), was appointed president and chancellor on February 1, 1982, making him UNT's twelfth president and second chancellor.


1955 Altensteig mid-air collision

The Altensteig mid-air collision was on the 11 August 1955 when two United States Air Force Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcars collided and crashed three miles from Altensteig in West Germany.

361st Fighter Group

Today, the 127th Wing is a part of the USA's national defense, being part of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command's First Air Force.

36th Operations Group

The 36th Operations Group (36 OG) is the operational component of the 36th Wing, assigned to the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces.

904th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

In 1985, the 904th and the 404th Bombardment Squadron were consolidated when the United States Air Force combined inactive units that had served in World War II with squadrons that had been established after the war ended.

Aluminium–air battery

Aluminium-chlorine battery was patented by United States Air Force in the 1970s and designed mostly for military applications.

Battle of Taegu

The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, immediately deployed armed forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force units) to southeastern South Korea because of their immediate availability from their bases in Japan and Okinawa, where the military occupation of Japan was still in effect (through 1952).

Bob Cowan

Cowan joined the Army Air Force in 1943 and served in World War II as part of the ground crew at various military bases and at Okinawa.

Cathcart Wight-Boycott

In early 1945 he moved, again as Station Commander, to RAF Molesworth home of the USAF 303rd Bombardment Group and remained there until September when he attended a ‘’Methods of Instruction’’ course at the RAF Senior Staff College.

CFB Shearwater

Beginning in the 1970s, CFB Shearwater began hosting an Armed Forces Day every fall, typically on the weekend following Labour Day, and included an air show where the long and wide runways at Shearwater hosted some of the largest aircraft in the world, including the U.S. Air Force's C-5 Galaxy transport planes and B-52 Stratofortress bombers.

Chabua

Chabua airfield was one of the largest bases used by the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command to ferry supplies and personnel across The Hump to China in World War II.

Colin Eaborn

Thanks to grants from the United States Air Force and Army, Eaborn was able to assemble a team of 15 researchers and students, and in 1960 published the textbook Organosillicon Compounds, which had "a major influence on the development of what has become one of the most prolific areas of organometallic chemistry, with extensive applications in organic synthesis, catalysis and materials science".

Earl S. Hoag

In October 1943, he became commanding general of the India-China Wing of Air Transport Command, which operated supply and sustainment flights over "The Hump" between India and China.

Edward Higgins White, Sr.

He attended Harvard Business School, from which he received his Master of Business Administration in 1937, and spent World War II working as a budget and financial officer, first at the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, and then in the Office of the Chief of United States Army Air Forces in Washington, D.C. He transferred to the United States Air Force when it was created in 1947.

F-117 Night Storm

Arcade mode allows players to pick and choose every aspect of the mission, while campaign mode is basically a career in the United States Air Force.

Fighter Mafia

The Fighter Mafia was a controversial group of U.S. Air Force officers and civilian defense analysts who, in the 1970s, advocated the use of John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie's Energy-Maneuverability (E-M) theory as the sole driver in designing fighter aircraft.

Gulfstream III

C-20B - United States Air Force and United States Coast Guard variant with upgraded electronics, used for Operational Support Airlift (OSA) and Special Assignment Airlift Missions (SAAM); the single Coast Guard C-20B was used by the Commandant of the Coast Guard and other senior USCG officials as well as the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash

The first emergency response arrived at 8:22 am with the fire brigade, ambulance and police services being assisted by doctors and a medical unit of the United States Air Force.

Hochvogel

According to the United States Air Force the accident was due to a navigation error when the aircraft flew into a snowstorm.

Jo Mielziner

During World War II, Mielziner worked as a camouflage specialist with the United States Air Force.

L. Neil Smith

His father was an Air Force officer, and his childhood was spent in various places including Waco, McQueenie, and La Porte, Texas; Salina, Kansas; Sacramento, California; and Gifford, Illinois (all before he completed fifth grade) and then St. John's, Newfoundland and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida where he graduated from high school.

Lincoln Park, Calgary

The neighbourhood is located on the section of the former Canadian Forces Base Calgary that during World War II was a Royal Canadian Air Force airfield; the name of the district derives from a small area of military housing located between 54th Avenue S.W. and Glenmore Trail which was reserved for United States Air Force members stationed at the airfield during World War II.

M. A. Foster

He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.

My Living Doll

Rhoda's real name is AF 709, and she is a prototype robot that Dr. Carl Miller (Henry Beckman) built for the U.S. Air Force.

National Solar Observatory

The site's name was chosen by the late James C. Sadler, (1920–2005), an internationally noted meteorologist and professor at The University of Hawaii, formerly with the United States Air Force on assignment during the early inception of the observatory.

North Dakota World War II Army Airfields

Most of these airfields were under the command of Second Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command).

Oregon World War II Army Airfields

Most of these airfields were under the command of Second Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command).

Parasite aircraft

During the early years of the Cold War, the United States Air Force experimented with a variety of parasite fighters to protect its Convair B-36 bombers, including the dedicated XF-85 Goblin, and methods of either carrying a Republic F-84 Thunderjet in the bomber's bomb bay (the FICON project), or attached to the bomber's wingtips (Project Tom-Tom).

Pianosa

Joseph Heller's absurdist novel Catch-22 is set on a U.S. Army Air Corps bomber squadron base on Pianosa during World War II, but Heller conceded that he took literary license in making Pianosa big enough for a major military complex.

R.I. Bong Air Force Base

The United States Air Force then instructed the Air Defense Command to study the possibility of locating a base which would house two fighter-interceptor squadrons within a 70-mile radius from the city.

Reichen Lehmkuhl

A former United States Air Force officer, he is best known for winning season four of the reality game show The Amazing Race with his then-partner Chip Arndt, and for his much publicized 2006 relationship with pop singer Lance Bass.

Robert Macauley

Macauley first became involved in major charitable efforts following the Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident in April 1975, in which a United States Air Force Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying South Vietnamese orphans as part of Operation Babylift, crashed on landing killing more than 150 and leaving 175 survivors, many of them among the 2,000 children awaiting transportation to the United States in the days before Fall of Saigon to forces of the Viet Cong later that month.

Squadron Officer School

Squadron Officer School (SOS), is an eight-week long Professional Military Education course for U.S. Air Force Captains.

Stephen Reinhardt

After law school, Reinhardt worked at the legal counsel’s office for the United States Air Force as a lieutenant in Washington, D.C..

The Snuke

Meanwhile, the United States Air Force attacks and effortlessly destroys the British fleet.

The Sound Barrier

Contrary to what is depicted in the film, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier was the Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force in 1947.

Vernouillet Airport

A completely new NATO airfield was eventually built near the village of Dampierre, about 10 miles to the west, to accommodate the United States Air Force as a tactical airlift base.