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2. List of active United States Air Force aircraft - Wikipedia

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   This section duplicates the scope of other articles, specifically List of active United States military aircraft#Air Force. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the section by replacing the section with a link and a summary or by splitting the content into a new article.

3. List of United States Air Force installations - Wikipedia

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   The Air Force use several terms to identify the different type of installations it operates: [2] Air Force Base, Air Reserve Base or Air Guard Base are used to describe an installation from which aircraft operations can be conducted or from which major activities of importance to Air Force combat, combat support, or training missions can be ...

4. Blackout (wartime) - Wikipedia

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   Close blackout curtains (plain black curtains that would block light from coming in or going out). This step was changed after the atomic age began: where white curtains were used to reflect the thermal flash of the bomb, black curtains were used in World War II to prevent any airborne enemies from seeing light from windows.

5. Air Raid Precautions - Wikipedia

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   Together with ideas around the building of air raid shelters, evacuations of people and blackout requirements these were all termed passive air defence. With the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany 's remilitarisation during the 1930s, a further Home Office committee, the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Department, was created in March 1935.

6. United States Air Force - Wikipedia

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   The Air Force inherited warrant officer ranks from the Army at its inception in 1947. The Air Force stopped appointing warrant officers in 1959, [172] [173] the same year the first promotions were made to the new top enlisted grade, Chief Master Sergeant. The remaining warrant officers were slowly phased out. [174] [175]

7. List of active United States Air Force aircraft squadrons ...

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   Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 512 AW: 15 April 1944 Dover AFB, Delaware: C-17A [235] 337th Airlift Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 439 AW: 26 June 1949 Westover ARB, Massachusetts: C-5M [236] 356th Airlift Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 433 AW: 1 June 1942 JB San Antonio, Texas: C-5M ...