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The Military Airlift Command (MAC) is an inactive United States Air Force major command (MAJCOM) that was headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.Established on 1 January 1966, MAC was the primary strategic airlift organization of the Air Force until 1974, when Air Force tactical airlift units in the Tactical Air Command (TAC) were merged into MAC to create a unified airlift organization.
The 170th Group is a unit of the Nebraska Air National Guard, stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. If activated to federal service, the group would be gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command. The group was originally activated in the New Jersey Air National Guard as the 170th Air Transport Group, a strategic airlift ...
General Thomas M. Ryan Jr. Flying a Lockheed C-130 Hercules during Operation Urgent Fury, November 1983.. Thomas Martin Ryan Jr. (born December 10, 1928) is a retired United States Air Force general who served as the commander of Air Training Command (COMATC) from 1981 to 1983 and as Commander in Chief of the Military Airlift Command (CINCMAC) from 1983 to 1985.
The 439th Operations Group is an active United States Air Force Reserve unit. It is the flying component of the Twenty-Second Air Force 439th Airlift Wing, stationed at Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts. The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 439th Troop Carrier Group was a C-47 Skytrain transport unit assigned to Ninth Air Force ...
McDonnell Douglas C-9. The McDonnell Douglas C-9 is a retired military version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airliner. It was produced as the C-9A Nightingale for the United States Air Force, and the C-9B Skytrain II for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The final flight of the C-9A Nightingale was in September 2005, [1] and the C-9C was retired ...
Background. Prior to 1991, some refueling wings' full designations also included an additional parenthetical. They included: Air Refueling Wing, Heavy: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender. Air Refueling Wing, Medium: Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter, Boeing KB-29 Superfortress, Boeing KB-50 Superfortress.
The 60th Air Mobility Wing traces its origins to the establishment of the 60th Troop Carrier Wing on 1 July 1948 at Kaufbeuren Air Base, Occupied Germany. The wing was established in accordance with the Hobson Plan organizational structure established by the United States Air Force in 1948. Assigned to the new wing was the 60th Troop Carrier ...
Robert F. Coverdale was born on September 24, 1930 in Amherst, Ohio, and graduated from Amherst High School in 1948. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952. He graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1967.