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The history of the 201st Airlift Squadron began in 1946 with the activation of "H" Flight, HQ, District of Columbia Air National Guard. Operating out of Hangar 15 on the East side of Andrews Air Force Base, "H" Flight's assortment of B-26, C-47, C-53 and F-51 aircraft provided passenger airlift capabilities to the Air National Guard.
Currently, the USAF is organized into nine MAJCOMS (seven functional and two geographic), with the Air National Guard component reporting to Headquarters, United States Air Force (HAF). [3] The most recent major command, Air Force Global Strike Command, was activated in August 2009. The other MAJCOMs have either inactivated or lost their ...
Fort Smith Regional Airport / Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Arkansas: ACC: MQ-9 Reaper / Prior manned flying mission (1st iteration) terminated in 2007 due to BRAC; former F-16C/D fighter squadron; latest manned flying mission (2nd iteration) terminated in 2014 pursuant to 2013 NDAA; former A-10C fighter squadron; Loss of A-10s part of a since discontinued USAF effort to retire all A-10 ...
Established as Alaskan Air Force* on 28 December 1941; War Department Letter: Activation of Air Corps Unit, AG 320.2 Activated on 15 January 1942 General Order 3, HQ Alaskan Defense Command Redesignated 11th Air Force on 5 February 1942 Redesignated Eleventh Air Force on 18 September 1942 Redesignated Alaskan Air Command on 18 December 1945
Deputy Director, Air National Guard National Guard National Guard Bureau (NGB) Major General Duke A. Pirak [138] [a] Acting [139] U.S. Air Force: Air National Guard: Senior Special Assistant to the Director, Air National Guard (ANG) National Guard National Guard Bureau (NGB) Major General Mark A. Weber [140] [a] U.S. Air Force: Air National ...
The United States Air Force's 274th Air Support Operations Squadron is a combat support unit located at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, New York.The 274th provides tactical command and control of air power assets to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and Joint Forces Land Component Commander for combat operations.
The 20 AF 509th Composite Group conducted the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and remains as the only air force organization to have used a nuclear weapon in combat. Inactivated on 1 March 1955, the command was reactivated 1 September 1991, as a component of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and became operationally ...
This is a list of initials, acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Air Force.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank).