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Operation Ivory Coast – On 21 November 1970, a joint United States Air Force/United States Army force commanded by Air Force Brigadier General LeRoy J. Manor and Army Colonel Arthur D. "Bull" Simons landed 56 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers [139] by helicopter at the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp located only 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi ...
361st Fighter Squadron. RAF Martlesham Heath. P-51K. Inactivated on 11 November 1945 - Consolidated with the 461st Tactical Fighter Training Squadron. 362d Fighter Squadron. AAF Station Neubiberg. P-51K. Inactivated on 20 August 1946 - redesignated as the 162d Fighter Squadron. 363d Fighter Squadron.
The Air Force Specialty Code ( AFSC) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify a specific job. Officer AFSCs consist of four characters and enlisted AFSCs consist of five characters. A letter prefix or suffix may be used with an AFSC when more specific identification of position requirements and individual ...
Tactical airlifter. Manned. c. 1974[ 14] 126 [ 2] The C-130J is replacing the C-130H on a one-for-one basis. The Air Force has Congressionally mandated floor of 271 C-130 aircraft. 6 to be divested in FY2025. [ 15] C-130J Super Hercules /J-30 Super Hercules. Lockheed Martin.
The ASCC became the Five Eyes Air Force Interoperability Council and no longer has responsibility for generating reporting names. NATO reporting name. Common name. Faceplate. Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2. Fagin. Chengdu J-20 [2] Fagot. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 [3]
An F-16C over Iraq in 2008. An F-22A Raptor flies over Andrews Air Force Base during an airshow in 2008. An F-35A in flight. A USAF B-52 bomber. A B-1B in flight over Afghanistan. A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean. An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. One of 4 E-4B Nightwatch airborne command posts.
List of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) List of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962) List of United States Army aircraft designations (1956–1962) List of United States Tri-Service aircraft designations. List of U.S. DoD aircraft designations.
Squadron Name Insignia Nickname Command Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 10th Flight Test Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Twenty-Second Air Force: 413 FTG: 15 January 1941 Tinker AFB, Oklahoma [610] B-1B [610] B-52H [610] E-3 [610] KC-135 [610] 40th Flight Test Squadron: Air Force Materiel Command: Air Force Test ...