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Operation Ivory Coast – On 21 November 1970, a joint United States Air Force/United States Army force commanded by Air Force Brigadier General LeRoy J. Manor and Army Colonel Arthur D. "Bull" Simons landed 56 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers by helicopter at the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp located only 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi ...
Operation Roll-Up (1949) — Refurbishment and redeployment of World War II equipment. Blue Hearts (1950) — UN amphibious landings at Pohang. Courageous (1951) — Movement of UN infantry units up the Imjin River . Tomahawk (1951) — Deployment of airmobile forces in the Battle of the Imjin River.
Squadron Name Insignia Nickname Command Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 10th Flight Test Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Twenty-Second Air Force: 413 FTG: 15 January 1941 Tinker AFB, Oklahoma [610] B-1B [610] B-52H [610] E-3 [610] KC-135 [610] 40th Flight Test Squadron: Air Force Materiel Command: Air Force Test ...
Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...
USAF/DoD reporting names. Before the NATO ASCC reporting names became widely used, the USAF and United States Department of Defense applied their own system of allocating code names on newly discovered Soviet aircraft. Each item was given a type number sequentially, but it soon became obvious that the system was impractical over a long period ...
Most countries with military aviation forces have a system for naming of military airbases. "Air Force Base" ("AFB") is part of the name of military airbases of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the South African Air Force (SAAF), with the USAF using it at the end of the name of the base (e.g. "Dover AFB"), [1] and the SAAF using it at the ...
Multiservice tactical brevity code. March 2023 edition cover page of the Multi-Service Brevity Codes. Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words.
The Air Force Specialty Code ( AFSC) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify a specific job. Officer AFSCs consist of four characters and enlisted AFSCs consist of five characters. A letter prefix or suffix may be used with an AFSC when more specific identification of position requirements and individual ...