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Air Force Astronaut Wings ; NASA Space Flight Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster ; NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal ; Fédération Aéronautique Internationale-Komarov Diploma ; Defense Superior Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Meritorious Service Medal ; French Legion of Honor, Saudi Arabian King Abdul Aziz Medal ; Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters ; Air Force Commendation Medal ; Washington State University Sloan Engineering Award ( 1961 ); Air Training Command Academic Training Award ( 1966 ); Squadron Officer School Commandant's Trophy ( 1968 ); Squadron Officer School Chief of Staff Award ( 1968 ); Washington State University Distinguished Alumnus Award ( 1983 ); University of Washington Distinguished Alumnus Award, Aeronautics and Astronautics, ( 1984 ); Washington State Service to Humanity Award ( 1983 ); Distinguished Alumnus Award ( 1985 ); Medallion of Merit ( 1987 ); Phi Sigma Kappa ; Leonov Medal ( Association of Space Explorers )( 1992 ); Magnuson Puget Sound Legacy Award ( People for Puget Sound )( 2010 ).
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As an Air Force psychiatrist put it: `` You can't have dry runs on this one ''.
He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.
to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;
Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;
the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.
Sen. Case Aj, has received a nice `` thank you '' note from a youngster he appointed to the Air Force Academy in Colorado.
Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.
The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
In addition, their establishment made it unnecessary to begin publication of a contemplated Air Force medical bulletin.
This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.
and an Air Force of 91 combat wings and 825,000 men.
Basic long-line communications in Alaska are now provided through Federal facilities operated by the Army, Air Force, and Federal Aviation Agency.
A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has provided financial assistance in the early stages of the Institute's program.
She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.
The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.
division five, by the Air Force followed by 11 states.
`` We're just real happy for the players '', Coach Bill Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy.
He broke that boy ( Air Force fullback Nick Arshinkoff ) in two and knocked him loose from the football ''.
The game players saw the Air Force film Monday, ran for 30 minutes, then went in, while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert F. McDermott will entertain at a black tie dinner Wednesday, May 3, in the Officers' Club at the Air Force Academy.
A young real estate salesman, Kern first got seriously interested in the problems posed by Communism when in the Navy Air Force.
On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal.
Air and Astronaut
A participant in the U. S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962.
He has been awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal.
Onizuka Air Force Station in Sunnyvale, California, Onizuka Village family housing on Hickam Air Force Base and the Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Space Center at Kona International Airport in the Kona district of
In 1966, the US Air Force developed an Astronaut Maneuvering Unit ( AMU ), a self-contained rocket pack very similar to the MMU.
Roosa's honors include the NASA Distinguished Service Medal ; the Johnson Space Center Superior Achievement Award ( 1970 ); the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings ; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal ; the Arnold Air Society's John F. Kennedy Award ( 1971 ); the City of New York Gold Medal ( 1971 ); the American Astronautical Society's Flight Achievement Award ( 1971 ); the Order of Tehad ( 1973 ); and the Order of the Central African Empire ( 1973 ).
The plan was for him to move to the rear of the spacecraft and strap himself into the Air Force's Astronaut Maneuvering Unit ( AMU ).
He is US Air Force qualified for full pressure suit flying, and was a flight crew instructor in the Astronaut Office, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
Brand departed the Astronaut Office in 1992 to become Chief of Plans at the National Aerospace Plane ( NASP ) Joint Program Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
John McCreary Fabian ( born January 28, 1939, in Goose Creek, Texas ) is a former NASA Astronaut and Air Force officer who flew two space shuttle missions and on the development of the shuttle's robotic arm.
Garriott has received the following honors: National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1960 – 61 ; Honorary Doctorate of Science, Phillips University ( Enid, Okla .), 1973 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal, 1973 ; Collier Trophy for 1973 ; Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, Komarov Diploma for 1973 ; Goddard Memorial Trophy for 1975 ; NASA Space Flight Medal, 1983 ; and additional awards related to his space flights, including the Oklahoma Hall of Fame ( 1980 ), Oklahoma Air and Space Hall of Fame ( 1980 ), the Astronaut Hall of Fame ( 1997 ), the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame ( 2000 ) and Enid Public Schools Hall of Fame ( 2001 ).
An example would be the equipment module on Gemini IX-A, when it was modified to carry the U. S. Air Force-developed Astronaut Maneuvering Unit that would have been tested by astronaut Eugene Cernan, but was cancelled when his spacesuit overheated, causing his visor to fog up.
Eisele resigned from the Astronaut Office in 1970 and became technical assistant for manned spaceflight at the NASA Langley Research Center, a position he occupied until retiring from both NASA and the Air Force in 1972.
Among the honors he received during his career were the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Air Force Senior Pilot Astronaut Wings, and the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross.
Evans was presented with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1973, the Johnson Space Center Superior Achievement Award in 1970, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1973, Navy Astronaut wings, eight Air Medals, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Navy Commendation Medal with combat distinguishing service in 1966.
James McNeal " Vegas " Kelly ( born May 14, 1964 ) is a NASA Astronaut and a retired Colonel of the United States Air Force.
Air and Wings
* 1944 – Denny Laine, English musician ( Moody Blues, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Wings )
Eighth Air Force was assigned the 12th, 27th, and 33rd Wings, and Fifteenth Air Force the 56th, 71st, 82nd, 407th Wings.
* List of USAF Bomb Wings and Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
* List of USAF Fighter Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
* List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
* List of USAF Strategic Wings assigned to the Strategic Air Command
* Ravenstein, Charles, A., Air Force Combat Wings 1947 – 1977, Office of Air Force History, USAF, 1984.
Bruce began a varied and successful solo career with the 1969 release of Songs for a Tailor, while Baker formed a jazz-fusion ensemble out of the ashes of Blind Faith called Ginger Baker's Air Force, which featured Winwood, Blind Faith bassist Rick Grech, Graham Bond on sax, and guitarist Denny Laine of the Moody Blues and ( later ) Wings.
* Krila Oluje ( Wings of Storm-Croatian Air Force )
Red Tail, Black Wings: The Men of America's Black Air Force.
Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947 – 1977.
The Prop and Wings insignia of the Air Service ( 1918 – 26 ), Air Corps ( 1926 – 41 ), and Army Air Forces ( 1941 – 47 ) became the insignia of upperclass cadets at the Air Force Academy beginning with the first class, 1959.
The standard insignia uses the design of the Air Corps Prop and Wings, except that it is all silver instead of the gold wings and silver prop of the earlier design.
On the Wings of Modernism: the United States Air Force Academy.
Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947 – 1977.
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