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Daniel Caine – Air Force major and F-16 fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF Major Heather Penney, Captain Brandon Rasmussen and Lieutenant General Marc Sasseville) on 9/11 was to find United Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, including ramming the aircraft.
The 2024–25 Air Force Falcons men's basketball team represents the United States Air Force Academy during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Falcons, led by head coach Joe Scott in his fifth season in his second stint with the team (ninth overall), play their home games at Clune Arena in Colorado Springs, Colorado as members of the Mountain West Conference.
Sergio Padilla, U.S. Air Force - first Puerto Rican to graduate the US Air Force Academy with a 2.02 GPA. Antonio Paoli, Spanish Army - opera singer, first person in history to record an entire opera; Pedro Pietri, U.S. Army - Nuyorican poet and playwright, co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café [144] R
The 1985 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. After beating the Texas Longhorns in the Bluebonnet Bowl, the Falcons ended the year 12–1 and ranked #8 in the country.
Portela joined the United States Air Force Reserves and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps while still 19 years of age. In June 1969 he received his undergraduate pilot training at Webb Air Force Base in Texas and earned his pilot wings in June 1970. Promoted to first lieutenant, he was ...
Puerto Rico portal; This category contains the names of notable people who were born in Puerto Rico, people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican ancestry, and many long-term residents and/or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home who have served in the United States Air Force or its predecessor the United States Army Air Forces.
1977 The Blue Diamonds lead this time by Col Jose Balajadia, stretched its wings in a four-plane diamond formation and soared to cap the annual Air Force Day rites. The team was constrained to perform only over Basa. The whole aerobatic sequence was covered by the TV Program Ms Elaneous of Channel 7 and watched by millions of tele-viewers.
The 710th Special Operations Wing (710th SPOW) [1] is the rapid deployment force of the Philippine Air Force (PAF), which is divided into ten-man airborne attack teams as most of its members are airborne qualified. [2] The unit works closely with the 15th Strike Wing. [3] The unit is based at Clark Air Base. [1]