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The U-2s of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing were been used in Operation Cedar Sweep to fly surveillance over Lebanon, relaying information about Hezbollah militants to Lebanese authorities, and in Operation Highland Warrior to fly surveillance over Turkey and northern Iraq to relay information to Turkish authorities.
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The DC-130s and U-2s remained at the Davis-Monthan until 1976, when the 100 SRW was inactivated, its DC-130s transferred to Tactical Air Command's 432d Tactical Drone Group, and its U-2s transferred to SAC's 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing ( 9 SRW ) at Beale Air Force Base, California, where U-2 Dragon Lady operations were consolidated with SR-71 Blackbird operations.
U-2s and were
The U-2s were relocated to Davis – Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona, in July 1963, and Laughlin's mission transitioned to the Undergraduate Pilot Training mission in the T-37 and T-38 aircraft.
Laughlin U-2s were among the first to provide photographic evidence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba in 1962 when 4080th U-2 pilot Major Steve Heyser flew his U-2C over Cuba after taking off from Edwards AFB, California.
Meanwhile on 30 April 1956, two Lockheed U-2s were airlifted to RAF Lakenheath to form CIA Detachment A.
U-2s and Operation
In 1990-91, the wing deployed the largest contingent of U-2s ever to Saudi Arabia to support Operation DESERT SHIELD / STORM.
During Operation Allied Force, USAF KC-135s and U-2s operated out of the base.
U-2s and over
* The U. S. Air Force conducts reconnaissance flights over South Vietnam and Laos using Lockheed U-2s and over North Vietnam using SR-71 Blackbirds.
U-2s and .
In 1962, it was Laughlin-based U-2s that took the first photographs of land-based medium-range ballistic missile sites being constructed in Cuba.
9th and Reconnaissance
By the time the 508th attacked, troops of the 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion were arriving.
Five hours after the initial landing, feeling that the British were tied down in Arnhem, the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 9th SS Panzer Division was able to cross the Arnhem bridge and drive to Nijmegen and the bridge over the Waal branch of the Rhine.
** 9th / 12th Royal Lancers ( Prince of Wales's )-Formation Reconnaissance
The host unit at Beale is the 9th Reconnaissance Wing ( 9 RW ) assigned to the Air Combat Command and part of Twelfth Air Force.
Beale AFB is home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, and is also considered by many to be one of the show places of the United States Air Force.
The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is composed of four groups at Beale and various overseas operating locations.
Squadrons located at Beale include: the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 99th Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Operations Support Squadron, 12th Reconnaissance Squadron, and the 489th Reconnaissance Squadron.
The clinic's primary mission is to support the worldwide operational readiness and high altitude mission of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing.
Today the large SAGE building is now building 2145, housing the 9th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron ; the GATR was inactivated in 1980 and the building is now part of a Skeet-shooting range.
The mission of the 100th ARW was primarily primarily to refuel SR-71s of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing.
The 100 ARW remained at Beale until 15 March 1983 its assets absorbed by the senior 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, which became a composite wing under the one-base, one-wing concept.
Emblem of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing
The 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing was moved from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho and reassigned to Beale on 25 June 1966.
On July 1, 1976, the U-2 joined the SR-71 in the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing giving the unit two of the most unique aircraft in the world.
The 9 SRW was transferred to the newly established Air Combat Command ( ACC ) and was redesignated as the 9th Reconnaissance Wing ( 9 RQW ), operating the U-2 and T-38 Talon, while its KC-135Q tanker assets and 350th Air Refueling Squadron ( 350 ARS ) were transferred to the newly established Air Mobility Command ( AMC )
* 9th Strategic Reconnaissance ( later Reconnaissance ) Wing, 25 June 1966 – present
At around 09: 00, the 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion headed back toward Arnhem from south of the river, having concluded that it was not needed at Nijmegen.
* 9th Photographic Group ( Reconnaissance ) October 1, 1943-May 6, 1944
In September 1976, the U. S. U-2 operations were turned over to the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, but the U-2 operation at RAF Akrotiri continued to be called Operating Location OH until September 1980.
* Detachment 3, 9th Reconnaissance Wing, United States Air Force ( U-2 )
9th and Wing
It is the home of Shaw AFB, part of the 20th Fighter Wing & Headquarters to the 9th Air Force and the Third Army as of August 2011.
Estrella Mountain Community College is currently renovating the original historic Buckeye High School building on Eason Avenue near 9th Street, also known as the " A " Wing, and anticipates holding classes in this new satellite facility in the Fall of 2011.
* 9th Reconnaissance Wing, 1 Oct 2002 – 1 October 2009
* 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California ( U-2, RQ-4, MC-12 )
At the beginning of World war II, on 13 June 1940, six Sparvieros of 9th Wing bombed Ghisonaccia airfield, but one was shot down by anti-aircraft guns and became the first Sparviero downed in World War II.
His first military command was of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing ( 9 RW ) at Beale AFB, California from May, 1999 to September, 2000.
SAC moved its 9th Bombardment Wing to the base and began flying B-29 bombers and KB-29H refueling aircraft.
The 569th Strategic Missile Squadron controlled these sites and was assigned to the 9th Bombardment Wing in August 1962.
To prepare for the addition of missiles to its bomber forces, the USAF re-designated the wing as the 9th Strategic Aerospace Wing in April 1962.
* 9th Bombardment Wing, Medium ( later 9th Strategic Aerospace Wing ), May 1, 1953 – June 25, 1966
9th and were
The western Sanhaja had been converted to Islam sometime in the 9th C. They were subsequently united in the 10th C., and with the zeal of neophyte converts launched several campaigns against the " Sudanese " ( pagan black peoples of sub-Saharan Africa ).
From the 8th century to the 9th century, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and areas of northern India were converted to Sunni Islam.
During the 8th through the 9th centuries, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan were converted to Sunni Islam.
His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".
The rulers of Mercia were generally the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kings from the mid-7th to the early 9th centuries, but are not accorded the title of bretwalda by the Chronicle, which is generally thought to be because of the anti-Mercian bias of the Chroniclers.
It was long thought that Saluki type sighthounds were originally brought to Russia from Byzantium in the South about the 9th and 10th centuries and again later by the Mongol invaders from the East.
By the 9th century, eunuch singers were well-known ( not least in the choir of Hagia Sophia ), and remained so until the sack of Constantinople by the Western forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
On July 6, the Rockies were losing 9 – 3 in the 9th inning against the visiting St. Louis Cardinals, when the Rockies stormed back for 9 runs in the inning.
By the 9th century, the Gaels of Dál Riata ( Dalriada ) were subject to the kings of Fortriu of the family of Constantín mac Fergusa ( Constantine son of Fergus ).
The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.
Those of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople, of the 8th and 9th century, are wrought in bronze, and the west doors of the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 9th century ), of similar manufacture, were probably brought from Constantinople, as also some of those in St. Marks, Venice.
The 10th edition was only a supplement to the 9th, just as the 12th and 13th editions were supplements to the 11th.
Various editions from the 3rd to the 9th were pirated for sale in the United States, beginning with Dobson's Encyclopaedia.
Among those from whom he procured portrait commissions were Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba ( universally known simply as the " Duchess of Alba "), and her husband José María Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos.
The CIE coordinates for the colors of the 9th edition of the Standard Color Card were formally specified in JOSA in 1946.
Traces of Slavic culture in Greece are very rare and by the 9th century, the Sclaveni in Greece were largely assimilated.
During the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) between the 7th and 9th century AD, wood blocks were cut to print on textiles and later to reproduce Buddhist texts.
Incendiary arrows and pots containing combustible substances were used as early as the 9th century BC by the Assyrians, and were extensively used in the Greco-Roman world as well.
Also integral to the rise of Off-Off-Broadway were Ellen Stewart at La MaMa, originally located at 321 E. 9th Street and Al Carmines at the Judson Poets ' Theater, located at Judson Memorial Church on the south side of Washington Square Park.
In the 9th century BC, the first Greek colonies, such as Emporion ( modern Empúries ), were founded along the Mediterranean coast on the east, leaving the south coast to the Phoenicians.
Hadith were evaluated and gathered into large collections during the 8th and 9th centuries.
In Game 3, the Astros were ahead at Shea Stadium, 5 – 4, in the bottom of the 9th when closer Dave Smith gave up a two-run home run to Lenny Dykstra, giving the Mets a dramatic 6 – 5 win.
At the end of the 9th century the northern and southern parts of the town were abandoned for the central section.
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