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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 ...
USAF/DoD reporting names. Before the NATO ASCC reporting names became widely used, the USAF and United States Department of Defense applied their own system of allocating code names on newly discovered Soviet aircraft. Each item was given a type number sequentially, but it soon became obvious that the system was impractical over a long period ...
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 ...
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 ...
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, U.S. Gen Thomas A. Bussiere. Develop and provide combat-ready forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations. Air Force Materiel Command ( AFMC) Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, U.S. Gen Duke Z. Richardson. Conducts research, development, testing and evaluation, and provides the acquisition management services ...
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]
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. used as the official helicopters of the President of the United States Marine One. 1959. 1961. 1500. Sikorsky S-61R. Medium-lift transport/SAR helicopter. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. The S-61R served in the United States Air Force and in the United States Coast Guard.
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.