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The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina.It killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne training operation.
Pope Air Force Base Historic District is a national historic district located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It encompasses 32 contributing buildings on the grounds of Pope Air Force Base. They were built in 1933-1934 during the first base expansion and include single administrative buildings and dwellings with associated ...
Pope Field (IATA: POB, ICAO: KPOB, FAA LID: POB) is a U.S. military facility located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the central business district of Fayetteville, in Spring Lake, [2] Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. [3]
Pope Army Airfield dedicated the Airman’s Center building in honor of Senior Airman Ashton Lynn Marie Goodman, who served at Pope Air Force Base from 2006 until her death in 2009 while deployed ...
On 23 March 1994, twenty-four members of Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division were killed and over 100 others injured while preparing for a routine airborne training operation during the Green Ramp disaster at neighboring Pope Air Force base. It was the worst peacetime loss of life suffered by the division since the end of World War II.
The unit traces its roots to the 1st Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron which was activated at Pope AFB in 1975. [3] On 31 March 1997, the 43rd AES was constituted as the result of a change in its parent wing, having previously been the 23d AES; on 1 April 1997 it was activated as part of the 43d Airlift Wing under Air Mobility Command.
First piloted in the fall of 2020, the phased transition to have funeral directors and medical providers submit electronic death certificates was a long time coming for North Carolina, one of only ...
A mid-air collision between a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon caused a ground crash at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The F-16 hit and destroyed a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter parked on the tarmac, and flaming wreckage careened into paratroopers preparing for a practice drop, killing 24 and injuring many ...