* 3 October 2008: Honorary Air Commandant of RAF Honington

The Secretary of Defense by statute also exercises " authority, direction and control " over the three Secretaries of the military departments ( Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Air Force ), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Chief of Staff, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Chief of Naval Operations, and Air Force Chief of Staff ), the Combatant Commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands, the Directors of the Defense Agencies ( for example the Director of the National Security Agency ) and of the DoD Field Activities.

Those reporting to the Superintendent include the Dean of the Faculty and Commandant of Cadets, each of whom typically holds the rank of brigadier general, as well as the Director of Athletics, the Commander of the 10th Air Base Wing and the Commander of the Prep School, each of whom typically holds the rank of colonel.

Gen. Robins died of a heart attack on Father's Day, 16 June 1940 at Randolph Field, Texas, while he was Commandant of the Air Corps Training Center.

She became head of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ( WAAF ) in 1939 as Senior Controller, changed to Air Commandant in 1940, and appointed Air Chief Commandant on 4 March 1943, when she took over as director until August 1944.

The Duchess in the uniform of the Commandant of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force | WAAF.

He leads the meetings and coordinates the efforts of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, comprising the Chairman, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chiefs of Staff of the United States Army and United States Air Force, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.

While serving as Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Staff of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Commandant of the Marine Corps, or Commandant of the Coast Guard, the salary is $ 20, 263. 50 a month, regardless of cumulative years of service computed under section 205 of title 37, United States Code. 3.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

Army Air Corps, the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry, the Queen's Own Yeomanry, Northumbria Universities Officer Training Corps, Colonel in Chief of the Canadian Royal Westminster Regiment, the North Irish Horse and Colonel Commandant Yeomanry.

* Patron and Air Chief Commandant, of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service

The Chairman convenes the meetings and coordinates the efforts of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS ), an advisory body comprising the Chairman, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chiefs of staff of the United States Army and United States Air Force, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.

According to the 2012 Military Pay Table effective 1 January 2012, While serving as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff / Vice Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff, Chief of Navy Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Army / Air Force Chief of Staff, Commander of a unified or specified combatant command, basic pay is $ 20, 587. 80 a month plus additional allowances / pay.

However, the United States military was still organized along lines of command that reported to their respective service chiefs ( Commandant of the Marine Corps, Chiefs of Staff of the Army and Air Force, and Chief of Naval Operations ).

He was also Colonel of the 3rd Battalion the Royal Green Jackets from December 1973, Colonel of the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles ( The Sirmoor Rifles ) from 14 September 1976 and Colonel Commandant of the Special Air Service Regiment from 19 May 1985.

He became Deputy Director of Personnel at the Air Ministry in August 1919 and then Deputy Commandant of the apprentices ' technical training school in August 1922.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

A graduate of the local Blackford High School, Ford holds academic degrees from University of Notre Dame, Troy State University, University of Florida, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

In 1931, Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 crashed ten miles south of Cottonwood Falls near the community of Bazaar, killing all eight on board, including Notre Dame University football coach Knute Rockne.

Although Air Force led 30 – 10, Notre Dame won the game 31-30.

Scarborough's Open Air Theatre was reopened on Friday 23 July 2010 with the opera event of the year starring Jose Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, joined by the Opera North Orchestra in an historical evening of music and spectacular firework display.

During his second year at Notre Dame, Army Air Corps recruiters visited the campus.

* On March 31, 1931, Notre Dame Coach Knute Rockne was killed on Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 from Kansas City to Los Angeles when the Fokker Trimotor broke up in a storm over Bazaar, Kansas.

A defensive pass interference called on a Notre Dame Fighting Irish football | Notre Dame defender ( left ), who has his arm around the chest of an Air Force Falcons football | Air Force receiver ( right ).

After graduation, Belle was offered many football and baseball scholarships, including one to the University of Notre Dame ; he was also offered an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy.

In 1959 he was assigned as the assistant commandant of cadets, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Detachment 225, University of Notre Dame, in Indiana.

MACV, through the Seventh Air Force, had begun carrying out strategic bombardment of the logistical system in southern Laos in April ( Operation Steel Tiger ) and had received authorization to launch an all-Vietnamese recon effort ( Operation Leaping Lena ) that had proven to be a disaster.

* Derniers propos à bâtons rompus avec Jean Cocteau, 16 September 1963 à Milly-la-Forêt, Bel Air 311035

Amédée Maingard became the first president of Air Mauritius and Jean Ribet the general manager.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and U. S. authorities ordered the United States Air Force to surround the plane and force it to land in Whitehorse, Canada and to shoot down the plane if the pilots did not cooperate.

The unit was the GC3 ( Groupe de Chasse 3 or 3rd Fighter Group ) in the Free French Air Force, first commanded by Jean Tulasne.

Prefect of Eure-et-Loir in 1939, Jean Moulin was subsequently a part of the Air Ministry of Pierre Cot.

900 Free French paratroopers landed as part of the British Special Air Service ( SAS ) Brigade ; the Free French 2nd Armored Division — under General Leclerc — landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on 1 August 1944, and eventually led the drive toward Paris, while the divisions which had been fighting in Italy became part of the French First Army — under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny — and joined the U. S. 7th Army in Operation Dragoon.

* Jean Chrétien-Chrétien had one appearance on Air Farce, in which he claimed that Abbot's impersonation sounded more like Preston Manning.

Dawson College was first based at the Royal Canadian Air Force Base, St. Jean ( now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ), Quebec, in the Montérégie ( later the location of Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean ).

* Prix Décembre: Jean Hatzfeld, L ' Air de guerre and Éric Holder, La Belle Jardinière

* One of the bills passed under the old ( pre-1986 ) rules was a 1964 private member's bill to rename " Trans-Canada Airlines " to " Air Canada ", introduced by then-rookie MP Jean Chrétien.

* 1994 – Jean Hatzfeld, L ' Air de guerre and Éric Holder, La Belle Jardinière

* Le Bel Air ( Jean Moulin housing estate, park des Beaumonts, city of Bel Air, city of Grand Pechers ),

In 1964, an act of Parliament proposed by Jean Chrétien changed the name of Trans-Canada Air Lines to " Air Canada ", which was already in use as the airline's French-language name, effective 1 January 1965.

As well as an Air Force base, in its pre-war days Richmond was used as a supplementary airport for Sydney ; various aviation pioneers employed it in the 1930s, including Charles Kingsford Smith and Jean Batten.

Captain Jean Leroux, a helicopter pilot in the Canadian Air Force, was the Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge during his visit to Canada in June and July 2011.

After serving in the Royal Air Force as a Navigator and Entertainment Officer, he began working for the British company that had flown him, Kirby's Flying Ballets, and sailed to New York in 1950 to stage the flying sequences for Peter Pan starring Jean Arthur.

Best known names are Eric Van Kleef ( show: Clubbin & Slam Dance 30 ), Hardwell ( show: Hardwell On Air ), Ferry Corsten ( show: Corsten's Countdown ), Dj Jean ( show: DJ Jean @ work ), Mental Theo ( show: The Creepshow ) and the SLAM! 40 ( the weekly hitlist presented by Lex Gaarthuis ).

* Jean Pierre Amat — Shooting, Men's Air Rifle

* At Home With the Groovebox-Compilation of artists using only the MC-505 featuring Beck, Air, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Jean Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, Cibo Matto, Sean Lennon and others.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts lists works including A Modern Mass for the Dead ( Requiem ) by György Ligeti, A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley, Volumina by György Ligeti, Wind on Water by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band by Terry Riley, Cachaca by Patrick Moraz, Shine on You Crazy Diamond ( intro ) by Pink Floyd, Rock and Roll Music by The Beatles, Also sprach Zarathustra ( intro ) by Richard Strauss, Katakomben by Gruppe Between, Space Theme by Stomu Yamashta, Oxygène by Jean Michel Jarre, That's Entertainment by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, Over Fire Island by Eno ( with Fripp ), Miracles of the Gods by Absolute Everywhere, Mikrophoniet by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Melodien by György Ligeti, The Engulfed Cathedral by Isao Tomita, Volkstanz by Gruppe Between and What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.