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Air Force crews flew 1, 054 hours in southern Alabama, Georgia, and Florida conducting " dissimilar ( aircraft ) formation " training with both UH-1H and HH-3E helicopters at night and at low-level ( a flight profile for which procedures had to be innovated by the two selected crews ), and gaining expertise in navigation training using FLIR, which, until Ivory Coast, had not been part of the Combat Talon's electronics suite.
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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.
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Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.
The heavy losses in veteran crews on this and subsequent deep penetration missions in the autumn of 1943 led the Eighth Air Force to limit missions to targets within escort range.
Military pilots also serve as flight crews on aircraft for government personnel, such as Air Force One and Air Force Two in the United States.
The 355 FW also provides initial and recurrency flying training to all U. S. Air Force A / OA-10 and EC-130 pilots and crews ; and is the ACC's executive agent for INF and START treaty compliance.
The Special Air Warfare Center, located at Hurlburt Field, undertook to develop tactical air doctrine while training crews for special air warfare in places like Southeast Asia.
In July 1974, the initial training of Minuteman missile combat crews, formerly performed by Air Training Command ( ATC ) instructors at Vandenberg AFB, California, was incorporated into the 4315th Combat Crew Training Squadron's Operational Readiness Training ( ORT ) program at Vandenberg.
In 1963 the 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing was featured as the fictional 904th Strategic Aerospace Wing in the Hollywood film production A Gathering of Eagles, with the Air Force, SAC and the wing providing maximum support to the Universal Studios film crews.
The base also trained Ground Controlled Intercept ( GCI ) operators as well as interceptor pilots & flight crews for the Air Defense Command.
The second mission of Camp Kearns was a practice air force base for Army Air Corps ground crews.
As Strategic Air Command finished 46 years of service to the nation, Fairchild bomber and tanker crews took top honors at Proud Shield ' 92.
When operations ceased, Air Florida had over 18 months of unprocessed credit card ticket purchases and dozens of flight crews idle at home because management had failed to renew leases on all DC-10-30 aircraft.
The 17th not only was the first medium bomb group of the Army Air Corps, but in the spring of 1942 also had the most experienced B-25 crews.
Lieutenant Henry Miller, USN, from nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola supervised their takeoff training and accompanied the crews to the launch.
In late 1944, the Air Ministry announced the winding-up of the plan, since the Commonwealth air forces had long had a surplus of air crews.
With the establishment of the Joint Air Training Scheme ( JATS ) 38 South African – based air schools would be employed to train Royal Air Force, SAAF and other allied air and ground crews.
The airport was a base for Royal Canadian Air Force training, the crews and their families housed in a new townsite on the island, named Burkeville after Boeing president Stanley Burke.
The final air attack mission ( code-named Mad Dog Flight ) comprised five B-26s, four of which were manned by American CIA contract air crews and pilots from the Alabama Air Guard.
These crews included RAF personnel of several different nationalities, as well as members of the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ), who were frequently attached to RAF squadrons under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
Third Air Force used it as a training center by 120, 000 combat air crews and flew antisubmarine patrols from the airfield.
With the Cuban Missile Crisis, Air National Guard fighter units trained for “ no notice ” deployments, and volunteer ANG airlift crews and their aircraft augmented Air Force global airlift operations.
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