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  United States Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Department of the Air Force consists of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (SECAF), the Air Staff, and field units.
In 2004 the Chief of Staff of the Air Force was General (Gen) John P. Jumper.
In 1941, the Army Air Corps became the U.S. Army Air Force and the GHQ Air Force was redesignated the Air Force Combat Command.
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 Air Force Reserve - What We Do: What We've Done   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Air Force Reserve "Storm Trackers" of the 403rd Airlift Wing, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., began flying a series of missions to track the progress of a severe late-winter storm that moved through the Gulf Coast and up the East Coast of the United States.
The Air Force Reserve entered the space program with the activation of the 7th Space Operations Squadron at Schreiver Air Force Base, Colorado (formerly Falcon Air Force Base, Colo.).
Air Force Reserve airlift associate units assisted in the evacuation of more than 700 American and foreign citizens from Grenada during the civil turbulence on that island.
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 United States Air Force - Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Secretary of the Air Force is Dr. James G. Roche.
Major General Patrick Mason commanded the AEF air forces; his deputy was Brigadier-General Billy Mitchell.
In 1941, the Army Air Corps became the U.S. Army Air Force.
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 Air Force - Bases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kunsan Air Base - Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, is home to the 8th Fighter Wing, known as the "Wolf Pack." Located seven miles west of Kunsan City, Republic of Korea, the base is on the west coast of the peninsula near the Kum River estuary.
Among the base’s numerous and diverse units and missions, all branches of the U.S. armed forces are represented in a workforce that exceeds 10,000 military and civilian personnel.
The base is a multi-service installation utilized by the Air Force and Navy..
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 Schriever AFB, Colorado
Schriever Air Force Base, the newest base in the United States Air Force, is located approximately 10 miles east of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The base was built primarily as a backup to Onizuka Air Force Station, Calif., where all Department of Defense satellites were being controlled.
The base acreage is 3,840 and its population is approximately 4,000 military, DoD civilians, and contractors.
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 Homes for sale, Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region Real Estate
Schriever Air Force Base is located nine miles east of the city near the town of Falcon off Route 94.
The site of the United States and Air Force Space Commands, as well as a number of supporting agencies, Peterson is the administrative center of the Complex providing support for Schriever AFB and NORAD including exchange services, a medical clinic, personnel processing and record keeping.
Schriever Air Force Base is primarily an operation site for various satellite operations including the control point for worldwide tracking stations.
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 Science Fair Projects - United States Air Force
In 2004 the Secretary of the Air Force was Dr. James G. Roche.
The Department of the Air Force field units are MAJCOMs, field operating agencies (FOA), and direct reporting units(DRU).
The 15th and 21st Air Forces were formerly Numbered Air Forces, but have since been realigned as Expeditionary Mobility Task Forces (EMTF) under the 18th Air Force.
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 Military Relocation To Colorado Springs Area
Peterson Air Force Base was designed as a fighter training base during World War II and known as "Pete Field".
Mission: To operate and control military space assets such as the Global Positioning Systems, a space-based radio navigation network.Schriever Air Force Base is home to the Consolidated Space Operations Center, a secure facility for the command and control of Department of Defense space shuttle and satellite operations.
Established to consolidate Air Force space activities and is responsible for operating assigned military space systems.
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 Falcon Air Force Base renamed to honor space pioneer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Participating in the ceremony were Schriever; F. Whitten Peters, acting secretary of the Air Force; Gen. Howell M. Estes III, commander, Air Force Space Command; and Col. Elwood C. Tircuit, commander, 50th Space Wing.
Many consider Schriever's foremost contribution to the nation to be during his command of the Air Force Western Development Division from August 1954 to April 1959.
As he continued with the research, development and acquisition of the long-range ballistic missiles, Schriever foresaw the potential of space and strove to secure for the Air Force the responsibility for space systems.
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 Base Arrival Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The men and women of the 21st Space Wing, Team 21, work throughout the Colorado Springs area in what is known as the Peterson Complex—Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Air Station—as well as 26 locations in 4 countries around the globe.
People living in base housing may retain their privately owned weapons in their quarters and are not required to register them at the armory.
Concealed weapons permits issued by civil authorities are not valid on Peterson Air Force Base without the expressed written approval of the 21st Space Wing commander.
www.peterson.af.mil /21sw/peterson/base_arrival/base_arrival.htm   (787 words)

  
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Schriever Air Force Base, located east of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the newest base in the United States Air Force.
In 1992, Air Force restructuring resulted in the 2nd Space Wing being deactivated when the 50th Space Wing (50SW) activated, thus taking on the heritage of the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing which was deactivated at Hahn AB, Germany.
The base is comprised of 3,840 acres and currently houses approximately 4000 military, DoD civilians, and contractors.
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 United States Air Force - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Air National Guards of the several States, territories, and the District of Columbia
The Chief of Staff of the Air Force is General (Gen) John P. Jumper.
The USAAF reached status as a separate arm of the Army, with equal voice with the Army and Navy in 1943.
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 Peterson Air Force base, Colorado   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Location: Peterson Air Force Base is located on the east side of Colorado Springs, south of Platte Ave, near the junction of highways US 24 and Colorado 94.
Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station is located southwest of Colorado Springs and west of Fort Carson, west of Colorado Highway 115.
On 8 January 1951, the Air Force established the Air Defense Command at Peterson Field, which was renamed Peterson AFB in October 1976.
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 Your complete reference to air force - air force link   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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He told the Air Force Link, the news service of the Air Force, that the academy was in some cases not accommodating to cadets of other faiths...
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 Pope-Preddy Air Force Base Petition
INTRODUCTION: The Air Force often names air bases and air fields after the first aviator to be killed at or near the airport in question.
Many air bases are named for famous aviators native to the area in which the air base is located.
Schriever AFB, Colorado was renamed in March 1998 for Gen. Bernard A. Schriever.
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 Energy Services Bulletin
When Schriever Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colo., became Mountain View Electric Association's biggest wind power customer, the electric co-operative and its wholesale power supplier— Tri-State Generation and Transmission —used green tags to meet the demand.
It is the home of the Air Force's 50th Space Wing providing command and control for Department of Defense warning, navigational and communications satellites.
The Air Force spent the remainder for wind energy at its discretion.
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 Joe McCusker's Air Force Base List
The base was then looked after by the 166-person 2226th Standby Base Squadron, and later by a much smaller fire guard, until June 30, 1950, when the New York District Engineer assumed custody of the property and Slocum AFB ceased to exist.
Air Force Times reported that the base would protect the "vital industrial Mahoning Valley." The story added that General Benjamin Chidlaw, ADC Commander, told a banquet audience the evening before that, "the district was selected for a fighter base for economic and strategic reason, and not because it might be a target."
Air Force installations overseas exist through a variety of means, often resulting from negotiations that conclude with a treaty between the host country and the United States.
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 Schriever AFB Fact Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Due to Air Force-wide restructuring, 2nd Space Wing was inactivated and the 50th Space Wing activated on January 30, 1992, taking on the proud heritage of the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing which was deactivated at Hahn AB, Germany.
Schriever Air Force Base is home to more than 6,000 military and civilian employees.
The base contributes an estimated $350 million to the local Colorado Springs, Colo. area annually.
www.schriever.af.mil /50sw/fact_sheets/Schriever   (237 words)

  
 Schriever AFB
Looking to expand its economic base, the city offered land to the military in 1942.
The military's presence grew in the 1950s with the opening of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Over the next 30 years, Peterson Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base helped create Colorado Springs' reputation as the nation's military space capital, housing the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and other Space Command centers.
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 Air Force Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - A security forces specialist here took the silver in the Armed Forces Championship Wrestling Meet at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., recently.
The program gives Air Force people with international ranking (identified by the Olympic Committee's National Governing Body) the opportunity to train full time in their sport.
Air Force Services Agency Website is provided as a public service by HQ AFSVA.
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 TCC - Links: US Air Force
Head Quarters 20st Air Force, home of 90th Missile Wing.
The San Vito Solar Observatory is a component of the 55th Space Weather Squadron, Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), Schriever AFB, Colorado.
The threat of ground attacks on the U.S. Air Force.
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 U.S. Air Force Bases, Guide All Directory
Map of Air Force bases within the United States
Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Bases
Lakenheath Air Force Base, U.K. Misawa Air Force Base, Japan
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 European and Pacific Stars & Stripes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At Osan Air Base in South Korea on Friday, troops of the U.S. Army’s 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade pass in review during a change-of-command ceremony in which Col. John G. Rossi assumed command of the brigade, a Patriot missile unit.
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — The U.S. Army Patriot missile brigade that deployed from Texas to South Korea in 2004 has a new commander Friday following its first change-of-command ceremony on the Korean peninsula.
Rossi’s previous assignment was with the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command at Fort Bliss, Texas.
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 Experience Colorado Springs | Schriever Air Force Base
Home to Air Force Space Command's 50th Space Wing, which commands and controls DoD weather, navigation and communications satellites, and manages the worldwide Air Force Satellite Control Network.
Schriever is also home to the Ballistic Mission Defense Organization's National Test Facility and Air Force Space Command's Space Warfare Center.
The base, formerly Falcon Air Force Base, was named in June 1998 for General Bernard Schriever, father of the Air Force's Ballistic Missile programs.
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 Schriever Air Force Base Real Estate Referral Find Schriever AFB Homes CO
Schriever Air Force Base is the newest base in the United States Air Force, and was begun in the early 1980's.
The base includes approximately 6 square miles and is located on the plains, 17 miles east of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Schriever Air Force Base personnel are 11 miles east of Peterson Air Force Base, in eastern Colorado Springs.
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 Capital Flyer - Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
Andrews leads the 12 Air Mobility Command bases in MatchUp, the interactive Web-based game, with 66.65 percent of the base's goal of 2,405 players.
Andrews will be one of a series of stops for Chief Master Sgt. (ret.) Steve Hughes as he bicycles his way along the East Coast this month and August to raise awareness for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and American troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
He is the current Air Force vice chief of staff.
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KellyUSA Business Park KellyUSA is a former air force base now home to more than 60 tenants in the aviation, logistics, warehousing/distribution and manufacturing industries.
Schriever Air Force Base (Space Warfare Center/Ballistic Missile Defense Organization), Colorado, 125 (**) Schriever Air Force Base, the newest base in the United States Air Force, is located approximately 10 miles east of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. GPS specialists in Iraq.
Two of the five most-frequent visitors are part of the Air Force: the 76th Communications Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas (112 total visits); and the Space Warfare Center/Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado (105 total visits).
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