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VRC-50 C-2A from USS Enterprise VRC-50 C-130F Hercules at NAS Atsugi VRC-50 US-3A on USS Abraham Lincoln in 1993. 2 October 1969, C-2A #152796 crashed on approach to the USS Constellation on a flight from NAS Cubi Point, all 26 passengers and crew were listed as killed in action, the bodies were not recovered.
A T-38A-70 Talon jet trainer 67–14836, with a crew of two, student pilot Capt. Michael John Murphy, 26, of Biloxi, Mississippi and Instructor Pilot 2nd Lt. William David Eberz, 23, of Shohola, Pennsylvania. Both crew members were assigned to the 97th Flying Training Squadron of the 82nd Flying Training Wing at Williams Air Force Base Arizona.
The Light Reaction Regiment (LRR) is the premier special operations unit of the Philippine Army (PA), under the operational control of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Special Operations Command (AFPSOCOM), The Unit was formed with the assistance of the United States Army’s 1st Special Forces Group (1SFG) in the Early 2000's in response to several high profile kidnappings and terrorism in ...
During the Korean War, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet saw the need for a naval air station at Cubi Point. It was a rugged and jungle-covered finger of land 3 miles (4.8 km) from Subic Naval Base.
The Philippine Air Force renamed the facility to Colonel Ernesto Rabina Air Base (CERAB) during a formal ceremony conducted on September 28, 2016. The CVGR was renamed to CERAB in honor of the achievement of then Colonel Ernesto P Rabina PAF during the siege of the Sulu Air Task Group (SATAG) in Jolo, Sulu way back in 1974 that earned him the ...
In 1994 VRC-30 became the took sole United States Pacific Fleet COD squadron as VRC-50 was decommissioned and its personnel and aircraft were transferred to VRC-30. VRC-30 Detachment 5 was established in August 1994 at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan as part of Carrier Air Wing Five. Four other detachments were formed at NAS North Island ...
AIR RESCOM – Philippine Air Force Reserve Command; AMLC – Anti-Money Laundering Council; ARESCOM – Philippine Army Reserve Command; ARG – Armed Forces of the Philippines Reserve Command Affiliate Reserve Group; ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations; ATG – Armed Forces of the Philippines Reserve Command Training Group
Downed USAF Douglas A-1E, pilot was later awarded the Medal of Honor A-1 Skyraider—191 total, 150 in combat . First loss: A-1E 52-132465 (1st Air Commando Squadron [ACS], 34th Tactical Group [TG]) shot down during night training mission on 29 August 1964 near Bien Hoa, SVN (Capt Richard Dean Goss KIA, one RVNAF observer [name unknown] KIA) [12]: 10