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's first operational surface-to-surface missile was the winged, mobile, nuclear-capable MGM-1 Matador, also similar in concept to the V-1.

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.

The US military has specialized units, which can respond to a bioterrorism event ; among them are the US Marine Corp's Chemical Biological Incident Response Force and the U. S. Army's 20th Support Command ( CBRNE ), which can detect, identify, and neutralize threats, and decontaminate victims exposed to bioterror agents.

Following World War II, the US Navy Department adopted the dog tags used by the US Army and Air Force, so a single shape and size became the American standard.

Japan follows a similar system to the US Army for its Self Defence Force personnel, and the appearance of the tags is similar, although laser etched.

Instead, this effort evolved into the SAGE system for the US Air Force, which used large screens and light guns to allow operators to interact with radar data stored in the computer.

The statue is located in front of the current US Embassy, London and across from the former command center for the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II, offices Eisenhower occupied during the war.

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W.

In 1850 James Ferguson, Assistant Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory, noted that he had " lost " a star he had observed, GR1719k, which Lt. Matthew Maury, the superintendent of the Observatory, claimed was evidence that it must be a new planet.

Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lt. Don Walsh reached a depth of and were surprised to discover sole or flounder about 30 cm long.

The first recorded entry of a four-wheeled vehicle ( a horse-drawn wagon ) into the valley was in 1849, driven by US Army Lt. David Couts.

Abstract: This bibliography on the geographical, water and geological information of Guadalcanal was begun to fill a request for current information needed for the forensics recovery of the bodies of the US Marines of the Lt Col. Frank B. Goettge Reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed in August 1942.

* Chun, Lt. Col. Clayton K. S. Shooting down a " Star ": Program 437, the US Nuclear ASAT System and Present-Day Copycat Killers.

Wainwright was born at Fort Walla Walla, an army post now in Walla Walla, Washington, and was the son of Robert Powell Page Wainwright, a U. S. Army officer who had served as a 2nd Lt in the US 1st Cavalry in 1875, commanded a squadron at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and in 1902 was killed in action in the Philippines.

The US PT boats of Lt. Bulkeley were also in the same bay but alongside a tender:

Lt Gen Omar Bradley ( left ), Commanding General, U. S. First Army, listens as Maj Gen J. Lawton Collins, Commanding General, VII Corps ( United States ) | US VII Corps, describes how the city of Cherbourg was taken.

In 1919 United States Marine Corps pilot Lt. L. H. Sanderson mounted a carbine barrel in front of the windshield of his Curtiss JN-4 ( a training aircraft ) as an improvised bomb sight, loaded a bomb in a canvas bag attached to the plane's underside, and made a solo attack in support of US Marines trapped by Haitians during the United States occupation of Haiti.

* Lt. Shelley Kaysing-A US army lieutenant whom the Chameleon attempts to assassinate in order to further his plan to steal a secret army device.

Jim Garrison's sense of justice and conscience " kicked open a door that had been closed too long " in exposing CIA involvement in the assassination of US President John F Kennedy as did that of Lt Colonel Dan Marvin.

Staff of the 1st US Volunteer Regiment, the " Rough Riders " in Tampa — Col Wood is 2nd from right with Lt Col Roosevelt far right.

* Nares Mountain, in Yukon, named in 1883 by Lt Schwatka of the US Army.

* September 21-Attempting a New York to Paris flight, Frenchman René Fonck with co-pilot Lt. Lawrence Curtin of the US Navy, crashed their $ 100, 000 Sikorsky S. 35 on takeoff, killing radio operator Charles Clavier and mechanic Jacob Islamoff.

Piloted by US Army Lt. Cyrus K. Bettis, a Curtiss R3C won the Pulitzer Trophy Race on October 12, 1925, at a speed of.

Lt. Col. Seth Reed of Uxbridge, Massachusetts was said to have been instrumental in having E Pluribus Unum placed on US coins

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

Dragoon was the operational responsibility of the US Seventh Army commanded by Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch.

On Flight Day 7 ( Thursday, 10 March 1994 ) Columbia's commander, John H. Casper had the pleasure to inform pilot Andrew M. Allen that he was selected for promotion from Major in the US Marine Corps to Lt.

The first two lots of the new town were sold to Lt. Col. Harney for a total of US $ 1, 000.

His overall role, and the CBI command were then split among three people: Lt Gen. Raymond Wheeler became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia ; Maj. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer became Chief of Staff to Chiang, and commander of US Forces, China Theater ( USFCT ).

Lt Gen. Daniel Sultan was promoted, from deputy commander of CBI to commander of US Forces, India-Burma Theater ( USFIBT ) and commander of the NCAC.

Named by USAS for Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, who signed the bill authorizing the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838 – 42, led by Lt. Charles Wilkes of the US Navy.

) The camp was entered by Lt. Grattan and 28 other US troopers, who intended to arrest a Minniconjou man for having stolen a cow.