Faster access than browser!
96 relations: "V" device, Aachen Merzbrück Airfield, AGM-88 HARM, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Albanians, Antilles Air Command, Antonio (Nery) Juarbe Pol Airport, Athis Airfield, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Aviano Air Base, Battle of the Bulge, Beauvechain Air Base, Belgian Land Component, Bell P-39 Airacobra, Bitburg Airport, Bolling Air Force Base, Bombing of Iraq (1998), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brooks Air Force Base, Brucheville Airfield, Bruning Army Air Field, Charleston Air Force Base, Combat air patrol, Command and control, Curtiss P-36 Hawk, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Cyril E. King Airport, Dalhart Army Air Base, Dayton Agreement, Destroyers for Bases Agreement, Edwards Air Force Base, Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, Fighter aircraft, Fourragère, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, Great Britain, Gulf War, Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, Incirlik Air Base, Iraq War, Iraqi Army, Iraqi no-fly zones, Juvincourt Airfield, Kassel-Rothwesten Airfield, Kelly Field Annex, Kosovo, Langley Air Force Base, Le Mans Airfield, Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, Losey Field, ..., Martinique, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Mendig Air Base, Minnesota Air National Guard, Mitchel Air Force Base, NATO, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Norfolk, Virginia, Normandy landings, North American F-100 Super Sabre, North American F-86 Sabre, Operation Deny Flight, Operation Northern Watch, Operation Overlord, Operation Southern Watch, Panama Canal Zone, Panamá Pacífico International Airport, President of Yugoslavia, Presidential Unit Citation (United States), Puerto Rico, RAF Kingsnorth (World War II), Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Republic F-84 Thunderjet, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Saint Croix, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Scholes International Airport at Galveston, Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spangdahlem Air Base, Surface-to-air missile, U-boat, United States Air Force, United States Air Force Thunderbirds, United States Air Forces Central Command, United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa, United States Central Command, USS Chateau Thierry (AP-31), Vichy France, Western Asia, Wild Weasel, 22d Fighter Squadron, 36th Operations Group, 36th Wing, 480th Fighter Squadron, 52d Operations Group, 52nd Fighter Wing. Expand index (46 more) »
"V" device
A "V" device is a metal capital letter "V" with serifs which, when worn on certain decorations awarded by the United States Armed Forces, distinguishes an award for heroism or valor in combat instead of for meritorious service or achievement.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and "V" device · See more »
Aachen Merzbrück Airfield
Aachen Merzbrück Airfield (Flugplatz Aachen-Merzbrück) is an airfield located in Aachen, Germany.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Aachen Merzbrück Airfield · See more »
AGM-88 HARM
The AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-radiation Missile) is a tactical, air-to-surface anti-radiation missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and AGM-88 HARM · See more »
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
The Air Force Outstanding Unit Award is one of the unit awards of the United States Air Force.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Air Force Outstanding Unit Award · See more »
Albanians
The Albanians (Shqiptarët) are a European ethnic group that is predominantly native to Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia, southern Serbia, southeastern Montenegro and northwestern Greece, who share a common ancestry, culture and language.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Albanians · See more »
Antilles Air Command
The Antilles Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Antilles Air Command · See more »
Antonio (Nery) Juarbe Pol Airport
Antonio (Nery) Juarbe Pol Airport is a public use airport located southeast of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Antonio (Nery) Juarbe Pol Airport · See more »
Athis Airfield
Athis Airfield was a World War II military airfield located approximately 1 km northeast of Athis, approximately 130 km east-northeast of Paris.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Athis Airfield · See more »
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Attack on Pearl Harbor · See more »
Aviano Air Base
Aviano Air Base (Base aerea di Aviano) is a NATO base in northeastern Italy, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Aviano Air Base · See more »
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Battle of the Bulge · See more »
Beauvechain Air Base
Beauvechain Air Base is a Belgian Air Component military airfield in Belgium, located south of Beauvechain in Wallonia (Walloon Brabant Province); east-southeast of Brussels.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Beauvechain Air Base · See more »
Belgian Land Component
The Land Component (Landcomponent, Composante terre) is the land-based branch of the Belgian Armed Forces.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Belgian Land Component · See more »
Bell P-39 Airacobra
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was one of the principal American fighter aircraft in service when the United States entered World War II.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Bell P-39 Airacobra · See more »
Bitburg Airport
Bitburg Airport (Flugplatz Bitburg) is a commercial airport serving Bitburg, a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Bitburg Airport · See more »
Bolling Air Force Base
Bolling Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Washington, D.C. In 2010 it was merged with Naval Support Facility Anacostia to form Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Bolling Air Force Base · See more »
Bombing of Iraq (1998)
The December 1998 bombing of Iraq (code-named Operation Desert Fox) was a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets from 16 December 1998, to 19 December 1998, by the United States and United Kingdom.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Bombing of Iraq (1998) · See more »
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (or; abbreviated B&H; Bosnian and Serbian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH) / Боснa и Херцеговина (БиХ), Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH)), sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina, and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe located on the Balkan Peninsula.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Bosnia and Herzegovina · See more »
Brooks Air Force Base
Brooks Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility, located in San Antonio, Texas.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Brooks Air Force Base · See more »
Brucheville Airfield
Brucheville Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the commune of Brucheville in the Normandy region of northern France.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Brucheville Airfield · See more »
Bruning Army Air Field
Bruning Army Air Field was a flight training installation of the United States Army Air Forces used during World War II and located in northeast Thayer County, Nebraska, at coordinates 40°20'25" North, 97°25'42" West, approximately six miles east of Bruning.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Bruning Army Air Field · See more »
Charleston Air Force Base
Charleston Air Force Base is a United States military facility located in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Charleston Air Force Base · See more »
Combat air patrol
Combat air patrol (CAP) is a type of flying mission for fighter aircraft.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Combat air patrol · See more »
Command and control
Command and control or C2 is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes...
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Command and control · See more »
Curtiss P-36 Hawk
The Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75, is an American-designed and built fighter aircraft of the 1930s and 40s.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Curtiss P-36 Hawk · See more »
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Curtiss P-40 Warhawk · See more »
Cyril E. King Airport
Cyril E. King International Airport is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the central business district of Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Cyril E. King Airport · See more »
Dalhart Army Air Base
Dalhart Army Air Base is a former World War II military airfield complex near the city of Dalhart, Texas.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Dalhart Army Air Base · See more »
Dayton Agreement
The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton–Paris Agreement, (Dejtonski mirovni sporazum, Dejtonski mirovni sporazum, Daytonski sporazum) is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, United States, in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris, France, on 14 December 1995.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Dayton Agreement · See more »
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
In the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom on September 2, 1940, fifty,, and US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Destroyers for Bases Agreement · See more »
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation located in Kern County in southern California, about northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Edwards Air Force Base · See more »
Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base
Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (German: "Fliegerhorst Fürstenfeldbruck"; now "Flugplatz Fürstenfeldbruck") is a German Air Force airfield near the town of Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria, near Munich, Germany.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base · See more »
Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Fighter aircraft · See more »
Fourragère
The fourragère is a military award, distinguishing military units as a whole, in the form of a braided cord.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Fourragère · See more »
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) for the United States Air Force (USAF).
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon · See more »
Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Great Britain · See more »
Gulf War
The Gulf War (2 August 199028 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 199017 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 199128 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Gulf War · See more »
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport is a public airport located six miles (10 km) southwest of Christiansted on the island of St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Henry E. Rohlsen Airport · See more »
Incirlik Air Base
Incirlik Air Base (İncirlik Hava Üssü) is a Turkish air base of slightly more than 3320 ac (1335 ha), located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Incirlik Air Base · See more »
Iraq War
The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Iraq War · See more »
Iraqi Army
The Iraqi Army, officially the Iraqi Ground Forces, is the ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces, having been active in various incarnations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Iraqi Army · See more »
Iraqi no-fly zones
The Iraqi no-fly zones were a set of two separate no-fly zones (NFZs), and were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect the Kurds in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Iraqi no-fly zones · See more »
Juvincourt Airfield
Juvincourt Airfield is an abandoned military airfield, which is located near the commune of Juvincourt-et-Damary in the Aisne department of northern France.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Juvincourt Airfield · See more »
Kassel-Rothwesten Airfield
Kassel-Rothwesten Airfield is a former military airfield located in Rothwesten, a part of Fuldatal in Germany about north-northeast of Kassel (Hessen); approximately southwest of Berlin.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Kassel-Rothwesten Airfield · See more »
Kelly Field Annex
Kelly Field Annex (formerly Kelly Air Force Base) is a United States Air Force facility located in San Antonio, Texas.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Kelly Field Annex · See more »
Kosovo
Kosovo (Kosova or Kosovë; Косово) is a partially recognised state and disputed territory in Southeastern Europe that declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 as the Republic of Kosovo (Republika e Kosovës; Република Косово / Republika Kosovo).
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Kosovo · See more »
Langley Air Force Base
Langley Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located adjacent to Hampton and Newport News, Virginia.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Langley Air Force Base · See more »
Le Mans Airfield
Le Mans Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the City of Le Mans in the Pays de la Loire region of northern France.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Le Mans Airfield · See more »
Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star · See more »
Losey Field
Losey Field is a former United States Army Air Forces World War II air base on Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Losey Field · See more »
Martinique
Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Martinique · See more »
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II · See more »
Mendig Air Base
Mendig Air Base (German: "Heeresflugplatz Mendig ") is a former military airfield located southeast of the city of Mendig, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Mendig Air Base · See more »
Minnesota Air National Guard
The Minnesota Air National Guard (MN ANG) is the air force militia of the State of Minnesota, United States of America.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Minnesota Air National Guard · See more »
Mitchel Air Force Base
Mitchel Air Force Base also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Mitchel Air Force Base · See more »
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and NATO · See more »
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) during the Kosovo War.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and NATO bombing of Yugoslavia · See more »
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Norfolk, Virginia · See more »
Normandy landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Normandy landings · See more »
North American F-100 Super Sabre
The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard (ANG) until 1979.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and North American F-100 Super Sabre · See more »
North American F-86 Sabre
The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and North American F-86 Sabre · See more »
Operation Deny Flight
Operation Deny Flight was a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operation that began on 12 April 1993 as the enforcement of a United Nations (UN) no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Operation Deny Flight · See more »
Operation Northern Watch
Operation Northern Watch (ONW), the successor to Operation Provide Comfort, was a Combined Task Force (CTF) charged with enforcing its own no-fly zone above the 36th parallel in Iraq.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Operation Northern Watch · See more »
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Operation Overlord · See more »
Operation Southern Watch
Operation Southern Watch was an air-centric military operation conducted by the United States Department of Defense from Summer 1992 to Spring 2003.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Operation Southern Watch · See more »
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone (Zona del Canal de Panamá) was an unincorporated territory of the United States from 1903 to 1979, centered on the Panama Canal and surrounded by the Republic of Panama.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Panama Canal Zone · See more »
Panamá Pacífico International Airport
Panamá Pacífico International Airport is a commercial airport in Panama.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Panamá Pacífico International Airport · See more »
President of Yugoslavia
The President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or the President of the Republic for short, was the head of state of that country from 14 January 1953 to 4 May 1980.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and President of Yugoslavia · See more »
Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
The Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), originally called the Distinguished Unit Citation, is awarded to units of the Uniformed services of the United States, and those of allied countries, for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941 (the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of American involvement in World War II).
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Presidential Unit Citation (United States) · See more »
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Puerto Rico · See more »
RAF Kingsnorth (World War II)
RAF Kingsnorth was a World War II airfield in Kent, England.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and RAF Kingsnorth (World War II) · See more »
Republic F-105 Thunderchief
The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was a supersonic fighter-bomber used by the United States Air Force.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Republic F-105 Thunderchief · See more »
Republic F-84 Thunderjet
The Republic F-84 Thunderjet was an American turbojet fighter-bomber aircraft.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Republic F-84 Thunderjet · See more »
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt · See more »
Saint Croix
Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Saint Croix · See more »
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas (Santo Tomás; Sint-Thomas; Sankt Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and, together with Saint John, Water Island and Saint Croix, form a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands · See more »
Scholes International Airport at Galveston
Scholes International Airport at Galveston is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Galveston, a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Scholes International Airport at Galveston · See more »
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbian and Bosnian: Срби у Босни и Херцеговини / Srbi u Bosni i Hercegovini) are one of the three constitutive nations (State-forming nations) of the country, predominantly residing in the political-territorial entity of Republika Srpska.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina · See more »
Spangdahlem Air Base
Spangdahlem Air Base (IATA: SPM, ICAO: ETAD, former code EDAD) is a NATO air base with USAF tenant constructed between 1951 and 1953 and located near the small German town of Spangdahlem, approximately 30 km NNE of the city of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Spangdahlem Air Base · See more »
Surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM, pronunced), or ground-to-air missile (GTAM, pronounced), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Surface-to-air missile · See more »
U-boat
U-boat is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat".
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and U-boat · See more »
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and United States Air Force · See more »
United States Air Force Thunderbirds
The USAF Air Demonstration Squadron ("Thunderbirds") is the air demonstration squadron of the United States Air Force The Thunderbirds are assigned to the 57th Wing, and are based at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and United States Air Force Thunderbirds · See more »
United States Air Forces Central Command
United States Air Forces Central Command (USAFCENT/AFCENT) is a Named Air Force of the United States Air Force headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is the Air Force Service Component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a joint Department of Defense combatant command responsible for U.S. security interests in 27 nations that stretch from the Horn of Africa through the Persian Gulf region, into Central Asia. Activated as 9th Air Force on 8 April 1942, the command fought in World War II both in the Western Desert Campaign in Egypt and Libya and as the tactical fighter component of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF), engaging enemy forces in France, the Low Countries and in Nazi Germany. During the Cold War, it was one of two Numbered Air Forces of Tactical Air Command. Co-designated as United States Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) on 1 January 1983, on 2009 as part of a complicated transfer of lineage, the lineage and history of the Ninth Air Force was bestowed on USAFCENT, and a new Ninth Air Force, which technically had no previous history, was activated. It has fought in the 1991 Gulf War, War in Afghanistan (OEF-A, 2001–present), the Iraq War (OIF, 2003–2010), as well as various engagements within USCENTCOM.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and United States Air Forces Central Command · See more »
United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa
The United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) is a United States Air Force major command (MAJCOM) and a component command of both United States European Command (USEUCOM) and United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM). As part of its mission, USAFE-AFAFRICA commands U.S. Air Force units pledged to NATO, maintaining combat-ready wings based from Great Britain to Turkey. USAFE-AFAFRICA plans, conducts, controls, coordinates and supports air and space operations in Europe, parts of Asia and all of Africa with the exception of Egypt to achieve U.S. national and NATO objectives based on taskings by the two combatant commanders. USAFE-AFAFRICA is headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It is the oldest continuously active USAF major command, originally activated on 1 February 1942 at Langley Field, Virginia, as the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces. Two years later, it was designated as United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF) and on 7 August 1945 it was designated as United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). On 20 April 2012 United States Air Forces in Europe formally became the U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa when the 17th Air Force inactivated. The command has more than 35,000 active duty personnel, Air Reserve Component personnel, and civilian employees assigned.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa · See more »
United States Central Command
The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) is a theater-level Unified Combatant Command of the U.S. Department of Defense.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and United States Central Command · See more »
USS Chateau Thierry (AP-31)
Chateau Thierry was a troop transport that served with the US Army and US Navy.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and USS Chateau Thierry (AP-31) · See more »
Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Vichy France · See more »
Western Asia
Western Asia, West Asia, Southwestern Asia or Southwest Asia is the westernmost subregion of Asia.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Western Asia · See more »
Wild Weasel
Wild Weasel is a code name given by the United States Armed Forces, specifically the US Air Force, to an aircraft, of any type, equipped with radar-seeking missiles and tasked with destroying the radars and SAM installations of enemy air defense systems.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and Wild Weasel · See more »
22d Fighter Squadron
The 22d Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and 22d Fighter Squadron · See more »
36th Operations Group
The 36th Operations Group (36 OG) is the operational component of the 36th Wing, assigned to the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and 36th Operations Group · See more »
36th Wing
The United States Air Force's 36th Wing is the host wing for Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and 36th Wing · See more »
480th Fighter Squadron
The 480th Fighter Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and 480th Fighter Squadron · See more »
52d Operations Group
The 52d Operations Group is the flying component of the 52d Fighter Wing, assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA).
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and 52d Operations Group · See more »
52nd Fighter Wing
The 52d Fighter Wing (52 FW) is a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.
New!!: 23d Fighter Squadron and 52nd Fighter Wing · See more »
Redirects here:
23 FS, 23d Fighter Squadron (USAF), 23d Fighter-Day Squadron, 23d Pursuit Squadron, 23d Tactical Fighter Squadron, 23nd Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Squadron (United States), 23rd Tactical Fighter Squadron.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23d_Fighter_Squadron
