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American military history - Volume 1 - the United States Army and the forging of a nation, 1775 - 1917, second edition (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army. ISBN 0-16-072362-0 "Map 20" on page 170 of this book shows the location of Florida forts and battles during the Second Seminole War (1835 - 1842).
Naval Air Station Whiting Field is a United States Navy base located near Milton, Florida, with some outlying fields near Navarre, Florida, in south and central Santa Rosa County, and is one of the Navy's two primary pilot training bases (the other being NAS Corpus Christi, Texas).
In August 1992, just prior to the landfall of Hurricane Andrew in southern Florida, the 31st Fighter Wing (31 FW) and the Air Force Reserve's 482d Fighter Wing, both based at Homestead AFB, executed an emergency hurricane evacuation of all of their flyable F-16C and F-16D aircraft, with the bulk of those aircraft temporarily staging at MacDill ...
A joint military task force recently conducted search and rescue training off Florida’s east coast as agencies prepare for an expected increase in human travel to space.
Total employment is 10,400. There are 13,099 military, dependents, civilian employees, and contractors on base. [2] The base is a census-designated place (CDP) and had a resident population of 1,642 as of the 2020 census, up from 1,222 at the 2010 census. [3] It is part of the Palm Bay—Melbourne—Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical ...
Florida currently has a State Defense Force (SDF), reactivated as of 2022. During World War II, the Florida State Guard served as the official state defense force of Florida, and was organized as a stateside replacement for the Florida National Guard and executed the stateside duties of the National Guard for the duration of the war. [1]
H-19 and H-34 helicopters of HT-8 over NAS Ellyson Field in 1967. UH-34Gs airborne at NAS Ellyson Field c.(Dec'67-Jan'68) Naval Air Station Ellyson Field was a former U.S. Navy training base, established in Escambia County, Florida in 1940 at the outset of World War II as an auxiliary facility to Chevalier Field at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
A former Colombian military officer accused of injuring dozens, including three U.S. soldiers, in a bombing attack at a Colombian military base has been extradited to South Florida. A five-count ...