The quick reaction force ( QRF ) consisted of 19 Rangers, a Tactical Air Control Party ( Tacp ), and a three-man USAF special tactics team carried by two Chinooks, Razor 01 and Razor 02.

The USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center was activated on 1 November 1963.

In 1978, the USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center assumed responsibility for the USAF Air Ground Operations School.

* Martin, Patrick, Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings, 1994

Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings.

HQ USAF redesignated the 312th and 474th Tactical Fighter Wings on 1 July 1958 as part of a world-wide re-designation of unit.

* Martin, Patrick, Tail Code: The Complete History Of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings, 1994

In October 1965, the USAF " borrowed " 12 combat-ready F-5As from MAP supplies ( 5 F-5A-15s and seven F-5A-20s ) and activated the 4503rd Tactical Fighter Wing ( Provisional ) at Williams for operational service trials.

In December USAF officials announced that TAC would assume responsibility for the fighter weapons school, which it did on 1 February 1958 with the transfer of jurisdiction of Nellis to Tactical Air Command.

In conjunction with the reorganization of the Fighter Weapons School, Tactical Air Command established the USAF Tactical Fighter Weapons Center on 1 January 1966.

Assigned to HQ, Tactical Air Command until 1967 as a series of provisional squadrons, the squadron became a part of the USAF Tactical Fighter Weapons Center in February 1967.

Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings.

On 6 December 1985 HQ USAF reactivated First Air Force at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, and assigned it to Tactical Air Command ( TAC ).

* General Robert C. Oaks, USAF, Commander, Tactical Air Command, 1984 – 1985

* May 26-Republic F-105B Thunderchief with the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron USAF at Eglin AFB

* January 6 – F-16 Fighting Falcon with the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing USAF.

Subsequently assigned to the 9th and 7th Tactical Fighter Squadrons at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Chilton served as an F-15 squadron weapons officer, instructor pilot, and flight commander until 1984 when selected for the USAF Test Pilot School.

Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings.

Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings.

Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings.

The USAF transferred thirteen combat wings from its Tactical Air Command plus one air depot wing from Air Material Command, and relocated the units to USAFE during the period from April 1951 through December 1954.

* List of USAF Fighter Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command

The term " fighter " is also sometimes applied to aircraft that have virtually no air-air capability – for example the A-10 ground-attack aircraft is operated by USAF " Fighter " squadrons.

* Acrojets ( USAF Fighter School at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona 1949-1950 )

The 49 FTS and 435 FTS conducted an advanced pilot training and the Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals ( IFF ) course for recently winged USAF Navigator / Combat Systems Officers en route to Weapons System Officer ( WSO ) assignments in the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft and recently winged pilots en route to the F-22 Raptor, F-15C / D Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and A-10 Thunderbolt II.

With Colonel Everest Riccioni and Pierre Sprey, Boyd formed a small advocacy group within Headquarters USAF that dubbed itself the " Fighter Mafia ".

Scobee's son graduated from the US Air Force Academy, has flown F-16s for the USAF, and has commanded the 944th Fighter Wing, the 301st Fighter Wing, and is now the deputy director of operations for NORAD.

The last of the purpose-designed day fighters were the original F-16 and the YF-17 that competed for the Lightweight Fighter contract which had the goal of providing the USAF with an inexpensive day fighter that could be purchased in great numbers to establish air superiority.

The Freedom Fighter was destined to have a relatively brief operational career with the USAF, and the DoD turned down a second request for F-5s, deciding instead to look at other types such as the Navy A-7 Corsair II.

Nellis assumed fighter-bomber training, and ATC established its USAF Air Crew School ( Fighter ) on 14 November 1950, equipped with the F-80 and also early-model F-84C Thunderjets.

On that date, the squadron received a new title, the USAF Fighter Weapons School.

On 1 January 1966 the USAF Fighter Weapons School, was organized and activated as a formal unit at Nellis and had three divisions, the F-100, F-4, and F-105.

USAF F-16C block 52 # 93-0553 from the USAF Fighter Weapons School sits on the ramp at Nellis AFB at night with the Las Vegas " Strip " in the background.

On December 1981, the USAF Fighter Weapons School was formally reactivated.

* USAF Fighter Weapons School.

The USAF Air Demonstration Squadron remained directly assigned to the 57th Fighter Wing.

* USAF Fighter Weapons School, 1 January-1 September 1966 ; 30 December 1981 – Present

* 23d Fighter Group — USAF group descended from Flying Tigers

* USAF Interceptor Weapons School, 20 August 1956-1 March 1970

* USAF Air Defense Weapons Center, 31 October 1967-1 July 1992

* USAF Interceptor Weapons School, 1 July 1954-1 January 1960

: USAF Weapons School ( tail code: WA )

: The USAF Weapons School teaches graduate-level instructor courses that provide the world's most advanced training in weapons and tactics employment to officers of the combat air forces.

Today the USAF Weapons School is unequaled in providing the world's most advanced training in weapons and tactics employment to officers of the combat air forces.

: Re-designated USAF Weapons School on 15 June 1993

File: Yumaafb-gunnerywinners-1956. jpg | The Eastern Air Defense Force team ( ADC ), winners of the 1956 USAF Gunnery and Weapons Meet ( Interceptor Phase ) at Yuma.

* USAF Air Defense Weapons Center: 6 Dec 1985 – 12 Sep 1991

In January 1983, he attended USAF Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada and returned to Davis-Monthan AFB as an instructor in A-10 weapons and tactics.

After attending the USAF Test Pilot School in 1983, he remained at Edwards AFB, California, as an F-16C test pilot and Chief of the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing Operating Location until his NASA selection.

* Distinguished graduate, USAF Fighter Weapons School.

The primary USAF group to work on this mission was the 4925th Special Weapons Group.