Why The US Air Force Will Reduce Aircraft Maintenance AFSCs From Over 50 To 7
The USAF aircraft maintenance program continues to evolve as America strengthens it warfighting posture worldwide.
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This Medal of Honor recipient jumped on a live flare to save his crew
On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...
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Operation Linebacker Featured Epic Vietnam War Air-to-Air Combat
As Rebecca Grant elaborated in a June 2012 article for Air & Space Forces Magazine: “[T]he nation relied on airpower to halt ...
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52 Years After a US Spy Plane Was Shot Down over Laos, a Family Still Fights for Answers: Did the Crew All Perish or Were Half of Them Left Behind?
The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.
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Remains of pilot lost over Vietnam nearly 60 years ago identified
Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing during the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced ...
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Australian Forward Air Controllers Fought Hard in the Vietnam War
Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War,” is available from both Amazon and iTunes). Squadron Leader (later air vice-marshal) Graham Wallace Neil, himself a former FAC, gives a fairly short ...
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U.S. pilot who vanished during Vietnam War spy mission finally accounted for
A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W.
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Wisconsin pilot killed in Vietnam War accounted for
The aircraft U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, 33, of Columbus, Wisconsin, was in went down in September 1967. A U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin, who was killed in 1967 during the ...