Based on his industry experience on Air Force missile projects, Mueller realized some skilled managers could be found among high-ranking officers in the US Air Force, so he got Webb's permission to recruit General Samuel C. Phillips, who gained a reputation for his effective management of the Minuteman program, as OMSF program controller.

* Air Battle Manager, a rated flying position in the US Air Force

* 2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

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.

As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).

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.

Following the retirement of the F-14 by the US, the weapon's only current operator is Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.

Both the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix missile continue in the service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, although the operational abilities of these aircraft and the missiles are questionable, since the US refused to supply spare parts and maintenance after the 1979 revolution ; except for a brief period during the Iran-Contra Affair.

Meanwhile, in 1989, the US Congress passed a series of amendments to the Clean Air Act.

Canada and the US signed the Air Quality Agreement in 1991.

* C-12 Huron / RC-12 Guardrail / CT-145 Super King Air Super King Air for US and Canadian Militaries.

On August 28, 1963, a pair of US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft collided and crashed into the Atlantic.

In 2012, the US Air Force alleged that two of its female airmen were subjected to cyber-bullying after receiving Bronze Star Medals for meritorious non-combat service.

He had been living as a retired US Air Force Colonel in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the time of his death.

The US Air Force deploys an air launched cruise missile, the AGM-86.

The three government agencies were the US Air Force, the Navy's David Taylor Model Basin, and the National Bureau of Standards ( now National Institute of Standards and Technology ).

Air Force General Curtis LeMay presented a pre-invasion bombing plan to Kennedy in September, while spy flights and minor military harassment from US forces at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were the subject of continual Cuban diplomatic complaints to the US government.

# Air strike: Use the US Air Force to attack all known missile sites.

* 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.

Among these were the killing of CEO of MTU Aero Engines, a German engineering company, Ernst Zimmermann ; another bombing at the US Air Force's Rhein-Main Air Base ( near Frankfurt ), which targeted the base commander and killed two bystanders ; the car bomb attack that killed Siemens executive Karl-Heinz Beckurts and his driver ; and the shooting of Gerold von Braunmühl, a leading official at Germany's foreign ministry.

* February 22 – United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe organized from the Eighth Air Force's strategic planning staff ; subsuming strategic planning for all US Army Air Forces in Europe and Africa.

Secret military missions are being flown by the US Air Force's " highly successful " unmanned mini-space plane, the X-37B.

For the Minuteman ICBM force, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes would not be available, so they quietly decided to set them to 00000000.

In the US Air Force's Lightweight Fighter ( LWF ) program, the F-16 was originally envisaged as inexpensive day fighter, but quickly converted to an all-weather role.

Under a contract from the US Air Force's RADC research arm, they had built a breadboard prototype machine in 1964, but the RADC contract ended and Westinghouse decided not to follow it up on their own.

The US Army Air Force 9th Air Force's medium bombers and P40 fighters that were detached to NAAF's Northwest African Tactical Air Force under the command of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham moved to southern airfields on Sicily as soon they were secured.

The US Army Contracting Command gave a contract to DynCorp International to provide a Maintenance Augmentation Team for the Kuwait Air Force's AH-64D Apache helicopter maintenance programm.

In this respect it could be thought of as a generalization of the US Air Force's SAGE system that was being created at about the same time.

The US Air Force's Atlas and Titan used more technology developed in U. S.

The base is operated by the 375th Air Mobility Wing ( 375 AMW ) and is also home to the Air Force Reserve Command's 932d Airlift Wing ( 932 AW ) and the Illinois Air National Guard's 126th Air Refueling Wing ( 126 ARW ), the latter two units being operationally gained by the US Air Force's Air Mobility Command ( AMC ).

Almaz had been promoted by Vladimir Chelomei at the OKB-52 design bureau as a response to the US Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( MOL ) project – MOL had been widely published in the early 1960s in the US press, which provided plenty of material for Chelomei to lobby for a Soviet response to this perceived US threat.

In 2001 at RAF Feltwell, home of United States Air Force's 5th Space Surveillance Squadron, a protestor defaced the US Flag with the words " Stop Star Wars " before stepping in front of a vehicle and stamping on the flag.

The US Air Force's C-17A is one of the few modern aircraft that uses reverse thrust in flight.

This was followed by the liquid air cycle engine ( LACE ) idea which was originally explored by Marquardt and General Dynamics in the 1960s as part of the US Air Force's aerospaceplane efforts.

At the time, both the Air Force and US Army had teams developing such vehicles, the Army's Saturn and the Air Force's Space Launching System ( SLS ).

* On July 20, 2012 a C-17 of the US Air Force's 305th Air Mobility Wing, from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, part of the USAF's Air Mobility Command mistakenly landed at Peter O Knight airport.

The Secretary of the Air Force's principal deputy is the Under Secretary of the Air Force ( SAF / US ).

On 17 July 1959, SAC and USAFE reached an agreement facilitating and substantially increasing Third Air Force's role in making operational decisions regarding the US Air Force units in the UK.

The two army awards went to the Force's infantry battalion ( known as the Sparta Battalion ) for the capture of Scotch Hill ( October 1951 ) and the defense of Outpost Harry ( 17 – 18 June 1953 ), while Flight 13 of the Hellenic Air Force was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for its heroic evacuation of US Marines from Hagaru-ri ( December 1950 ).

* US Air Force's 124th Wing Air National Guard unit based out of Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho

With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.

* 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

On May 25, 1961, twenty days after the first US manned spaceflight Freedom 7, Kennedy proposed the Apollo program to Congress in a special address to a joint session:

* 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U. S. submarine sunk in accident.

* Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

* Apollo Telescope Mount, solar observatory attached to Skylab, the first US space station

As relations between the US and USSR warmed in the later years of the 1960s, the US first proposed an ABM treaty in 1967.

" The construction of a missile defense system was also feared to enable the US to attack with a nuclear first strike.

A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with Goldman Sachs as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

He managed to beat Eversharp to market in late 1945 ; the first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbels department store in New York City on 29 October 1945 for US $ 9. 75 each.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country ( see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details ).

The first two, in 1848 and 1849, failed before departure due to US opposition.

In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.

Mexican Americans were not identified as a racial / ethnic category prior to the 1980 US Census, when the term " Hispanic " was first used in census reports.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

Cessna's parent company Textron posted a loss of US $ 8M in the first quarter of 2010, largely driven by continuing low sales at Cessna, which were down 44 %.