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The five core missions of the Air Force have not changed dramatically since the Air Force became independent in 1947, but they have evolved and are now articulated as air superiority, global integrated ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control.
Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) Robins AFB, Georgia, U.S. Lt Gen John P. Healy: Provides operational capability, strategic depth, and surge capacity as an integrated total force partner in every Air Force core mission Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) Hurlburt Field, Florida, U.S. Lt Gen Michael E. Conley
On 1 August 1979, the Air Force redesignated the USAFSS as the Electronic Security Command (ESC), reflecting the organization's additional mission of improving the Air Force's use of electronic warfare technology in combat. In 1985, the Air Force tasked ESC with computer security, in addition to its intelligence and electronic warfare missions.
Air Combat Command's mission is to provide air combat forces to the geographic Unified Combatant Commands.ACC organizes, trains, equips, and maintains combat-ready units for rapid deployment abroad while also ensuring air defense of the United States is strong enough for both peacetime and wartime needs.
The wing is assigned to Air Combat Command's Fifteenth Air Force. The wing's mission is to provide, project, and sustain combat -ready aircraft in conventional and anti-radiation suppression of enemy air defenses , strategic attack, counter-air, air interdiction, joint maritime operations and combat search-and-rescue missions.
OTV-7 is the fourth mission for the second X-37B built, and the seventh X-37B mission overall. It was flown on a Falcon Heavy in the expendable center core-recoverable side cores configuration, and launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. It is the second classified flight of Falcon Heavy, awarded in June 2018.
On 10 February 1998, the Air Force announced the conversion of the 156th Fighter Wing from its F-16A and F-16B ADF fighter mission to an airlift mission with C-130E aircraft. On 3 March 1998 the last F-16A departed from the 156th Fighter Wing and on 11 September 1998 a ceremony was held to mark the arrival of the first C-130E dedicated to the ...
The U.S. Air Force's answer was the Prime BEEF program. The Air Force established the Prime BEEF program in 1964, posturing civil engineers to better respond to worldwide contingencies. Military civil engineers were divided into specially trained and equipped mobility and recovery teams, each with their own unit type code identifier.