The Australian Special Air Service Regiment ( SASR ) also provided in-depth operational intelligence, and Signalman Martin " Jock " Wallace of 152 Signals Squadron was awarded the Medal for Gallantry for his actions during the fighting.

He also received the Defense Distinguished Service Medal ( posthumous ), the Navy Distinguished Flying Cross, 3 Air Medals, 13 Strike / Flight Air Medals, the Navy Commendation Medal with " V " Device, the Navy Unit Citation, and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star.

Colonel Casper has been awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit Awards, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, 11 Air Medals, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, six Air Force Commendation Medals, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, four NASA Space Flight Medals, and the National Intelligence Achievement Medal.

In 1968, while on active duty, Justice Brady was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal with Valor Device for heroism and 2nd-18th Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device for heroism and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star.

* Ed McGaa ( Eagle Man ): author, attorney and a U. S. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom fighter pilot in Vietnam, flew 110 combat missions, received ; 8 Air Medals, 2 Crosses of Gallantry and a recommendation for the Distinguished Flying Cross.

His other decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Commendation Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Recondo School Tab, Ranger Tab, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Civil Actions Medal and the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross.

He was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, 17 Air Medals, the Navy Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster and Valor device, a Meritorious Unit Commendation, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals, four NASA Space Flight Medals, the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, a Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, the French Legion of Honor, the Medal of King Abdul Aziz ( Saudi Arabia ), the Vietnam Air Gallantry Cross, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.

Category: Recipients of the Air Gallantry Cross

The similarly named decorations were the Air Gallantry Cross and Navy Gallantry Cross.

Awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, 10 Air Medals, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Leadership Medal, 3 NASA Space Flight Medals, the French Legion of Honor and the Saudi Arabia King Fahd Medal.

Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, Meritorious Service Medal, 3 Army Commendation Medals, 9 Air Medals, a Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medals, and NASA Space Flight Medal.

His military decorations include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters and Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm.

His military decorations and awards include the Lancaster County Veterans Association of Veterans Award for excellence and military preservation ; Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters ; Army Distinguished Service Medal ; Silver Star with oak leaf cluster ; Legion of Merit ; Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster ; Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters ; Purple Heart ; French Croix de Guerre with Palm ; Chinese Order of the Cloud and Banner, 1st Class with Grand Cordon, and 2d Class ; Republic of Korea National Security Merit First Class ; the Vietnamese National Order of Vietnam / Commander and Gallantry Cross with Palm ; Grand Cross, Royal Order of Phoenix ( Greece ); and Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit ( Spain ).

The Vietnam Air Gallantry Cross was a military decoration of South Vietnam which was issued during the years of the Vietnam War.

The Air Gallantry Cross was awarded for meritorious or heroic conduct while engaged in aerial combat.

The Argentine Air Force acrobatic display team is called Cruz del Sur, the Spanish for " Southern Cross ".

NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.

Assisting the SEOC were agencies such as the National Weather Service, the Air Force, the Civil Air Patrol, and the American Red Cross.

* 18-Sir Kenneth Cross, 91, British Royal Air Force commander.

* Southern Cross Aerobatic Squadron ( Spanish: Escuadrilla Acrobática Cruz del Sur ), the aerobatic demonstration team of the Argentine Air Force

The Silver Star is awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States not justifying one of the two higher ranking valor decorations – the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, and the Air Force Cross awards for extraordinary heroism or the Medal of Honor, the highest ranking military award, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.

However, during the Vietnam War, the last conflict to produce U. S. fighter aces, the one USAF pilot, the two USAF navigators / weapon systems officers ( who were later retrained as USAF pilots ), the one USN Naval Aviator and the one USN Naval Flight Officer / radar intercept officer to achieve this distinction were eventually awarded the Air Force Cross and Navy Cross, respectively, in addition to Silver Stars previously awarded for earlier aerial kills.

Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).

As a result of this action, both Technical Sergeant Chapman and Senior Airman Cunningham were awarded the Air Force Cross, the second highest award for bravery.

* Cruz del Sur (" Southern Cross "— Argentine Air Force )

He was honored by several countries, receiving the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the French Légion d ' honneur and the Silver Star.

Category: Recipients of the Air Force Cross ( United Kingdom )

* Air Commodore Ferdinand Maurice Felix West, Royal Air Force officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross

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.

* Karl W. Richter, Vietnam-era Air Force hero who at 23 became the youngest pilot in that conflict to shoot down a MiG in air-to-air combat, and winner of numerous medals of valor including the Air Force Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

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.

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.

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.

A trim green and silver-painted craft only 22-1/2 feet long, the Waco was entered to compete in the `` On-to-Spokane '' Air Derby of 1927.

So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

I thought he was the Air Force recruiter ''.

For a short while in 1918, he was employed acquiring provisions at the Air Ministry.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Air felted to create the flat disk of the earth, which he said was table-like and behaved like a leaf floating on air.

" The other item was a commemorative medal issued by the United States Air Force, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1972.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

The 100th Air Assault Brigade of the Russian Airborne Troops was based in the city until ca.

The first batch of herbicides was unloaded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, on January 9, 1962.

An elevated power cable from the mainland to Arapawa Island over Tory Channel was struck by an Air Albatross Cessna 402 commuter aircraft in 1985.

The sites were Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its Safeguard facility was already under construction, for the US.

In 1964, the Admiralty was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence along with the War Office and the Air Ministry.

The biggest change Robbins made was a new opening number to replace " Love Is in the Air " and introduce the show as a bawdy, wild comedy.

Notes: The song " Love Is in the Air " was originally intended as the opening number.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.