Tanks in a shed by the commissary. Camp Drake was one of my last haikyo to explore with Mike before he left for Canada last month. Compared to other US bases around Tokyo- those inFuchuandTachikawa, there wasn`t a lot to see, though of course we couldn`t know that until we ventured...
deployed at RAF Upper Heyford, England, 14 Sep-3 Nov 1954. It photographed numerous Air Force bases and American cities, 1954-1958, and participated regularly in SAC exercises, but was not operational, 15 Apr-l Jul 1958. As the 3d Air Commando Squadron in South Vietnam, it a...
The Clark Air Base K-9 Handlers Group is hosting a Reunion in 2013 for all Pacific Theater K-9 handlers who served at various bases in PACAF: Clark AB, Philippines, Guam, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and all other Pacific Air Force locations. We would be pleased and honored to wel...
By June, construction of around two-thirds of the Type 17s was complete, and were now being introduced to the various bases in New Mexico, with a few also being sent to bases in Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and it is known that possibly one was sent to NORAD Headquarters in Colorado. Testin...
AS PART of its evolving agile combat employment (ACE) doctrine, the USAF conducted a no-notice exercise at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on September 22, testing the 18th Wing's ability to rapidly generate airpower at a moment's notice. Col Joshua Lundeby, deputy commander of the ...
Its "easy" to generate 2 or 3 of sorties of fighters from Misawa and attrit the PLAN air cover, then launch the main strike - but once the first sortie hits, China will flatten Misawa with DF-21's (assuming that Chinese saboteurs / agents in Japan would note a ton of US aircraft ...
Because the US maintains a world-spanning network of military bases, protects trade routes worldwide and with the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, they need to transport their troops and supplies great distances, which is why they have such a bigger number of transports and tankers than ...
A third investigation examined the effect of long-duration space exposure on seeds, with a particular focus on the effects of radiation. Discoveries could help to enhance space crop production for future interplanetary missions and the establishment of permanently inhabited bases in space, USAF said....
Commands with Air Combat and Air Mobility Commands) and did away with various lower echelon headquarters. The Air Force also inactivated many proud wings and squadrons, closed once valuable bases, and downsized from more than 600,000 military personnel in the late 1980s to under 388,000 in ...
Organized in November 1967 in the Canal Zone, replacing the 5700th Air Base Wing Wing assumed operation and maintenance responsibilities for Howard and Albrook Air Force Bases and a Special Operations mission that included: air transport, paramilitary operations, exercise participation, civic actions ...