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McConnell AFB entrance displaying THREATCON DELTA on the day of the 9/11 attacks. In United States military security parlance, the force protection condition (FPCON for short) is a counter-terrorist (otherwise known as antiterrorism (AT for short)) [1]:1 threat system employed by the United States Department of Defense.
This Article is a list of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons active, inactive, and historical. The purpose of an aircraft control and warning squadron is to provide an airborne radar picket to detect vessels, planes, and vehicles before they enter an area of operations, as well as providing command and control in an engagement by directing aircraft strikes.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( November 2022 ) For each squadron code —painted on the plane's fuselage —the associated bombardment squadron (BS) is listed, along with the squadron's bombardment group (BG).
Nineteenth Air Force: 33 FW: 15 January 1941 [414] Eglin AFB, Florida: F-35A [413] EG: 61st Fighter Squadron: Top Dogs [415] Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 56 FW: 15 January 1941 [416] Luke AFB, Arizona: F-35A [417] LF: 62nd Fighter Squadron: Spikes [418] Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 56 FW ...
This is a list of United States Air Force operations squadrons. It serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons . Squadron
Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979; Mueller, Robert (1989). Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
The first Eighth Air Force aircraft to receive unit markings were the Spitfires of the 4th and 31st Fighter Groups training with RAF Fighter Command in September 1942. The markings were two-letter fuselage squadron codes located on one side of the national insignia and a single letter aircraft code on the other side.
This is a list of United States Air Force fighter squadrons. It covers units considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) such as fighter squadrons and serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons. Units in this list are assigned to nearly every Major Command in the United States Air Force.