WASP (from left) Frances Green, Margaret Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leave their B-17, called Pistol Packin' Mama, during ferry training at Lockbourne Army Air Force base in Ohio. They're carrying their parachutes. A few more than 1,100 young women, all civilian volunteers, f...
Williams retired from the Air Force as a chief master sergeant, one who was much beloved by his troops and civilian peers. He continued serving at AAFES HQ as a senior program manager in his civilian career. The one thing he wanted to be remembered for, he told AAFES, is that ...
but based on the questions I get on this site as well as the weekly newbie threads atreddit.com/r/airforce, it is obvious that many people have questions about lying to a recruiter in order to enlist or commission in the US Air Force. People consider lying about drug use, medical and...
At the start there was little time for specialized training. New recruits, many of whom had fathers or brothers serving in the RAF, were appointed to jobs as close as possible to their civilian employments. Girls with good shorthand skills would work as station clerks, cooks went as cooks, ...
"The Politics of Air Power" examines the turbulent development of relations between U.S. Army aviation leaders and civilian officials during the 1920s and 1930s. In the early 1920s Brigadier General William 'Billy' Mitchell and a group of Army Air Service officers tried to force the creation...
Each Program ExecutiveOfficeis headed by a Program ExecutiveOfficerwho is a high ranking official – either a member of the military or a high ranking civilian – responsible for the cost, schedule, and performance of a major system, or portfolio of systems, some worth billions of dollars. ...
Three years ago he became the first Black Air Force chief of staff, the service’s top military officer, which also made him the first African American to lead any of the military branches. For the last year Brown has been widely viewed as the frontrunner to replace Mille...
The Mc Donnel Douglas Skyhawk is a product of the 1950's. A light attack/multi-role aircraft developed for use of a flightdeck that did service for the US Navy and US Marine Corps as well as several other Countries world-wide. About 3000 airframes were b
It was the most important fighter of the US Airforce in Korea, the first contracts for this fighter were signed in 1944 by the US Army Air Forces for three XP-86 prototypes daylight fighter that could serve as escortfighter and for ground attacks. When t
BIS has led the Department of Commerce’s efforts in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by taking a number of powerful regulatory actions and issuing public notice to the global community as to potential violations of the EAR in the civilian aerospace sector. ...