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In response to communist efforts in Laos and South Vietnam pres Kennedy ordered this operation which was the covert deployment off the 4400th combat crew training sqd ( jungle Jim) to train South Vietnamese air force |
Operation Farm gate |
Jungle gym...animals...live in a barn |
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By December 1964 north American f-100 super sabres McDonnell fr-101 voodoo, and republic f-105 thunderchiefs, with boeing kc 135 stratotanker support conducted this operation attacking communist forces in Laos |
Operation Barrell Roll |
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Faced with deteriorating political and military situation in South Vietnam president Johnson ordered this operation as a sign of American support to South Vietnam and a signal of United States resolve. It was a program of measured and limited air action against selected military targets in North Vietnam remaining South of the 19th parallel |
Operation rolling thunder |
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Following the August 1964 gulf of Tonkin incident, when north Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the uss Maddox, pres Johnson ordered an orchestrated air attack as a show of force which attacked communist forces in Laos |
Operation Barrell roll |
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During the siege of khe sanh, more than 20,000 north Vietnamese troops protected by hilly terrain surrounded 6,000 u.s. marines. In response this operation was launched, 3 b-52s hit the enemy every 90 minutes for most of the 77 day siege |
Operation Niagara |
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December 1972 after the north Vietnamese refusal to participate in final peace negotiations, pres Nixon initiated this operation which was an intense 11 day air campaign to pressure enemy compliance |
Operation linebacker II |
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The attempt to rescue American hostages from the United States embassy in Iran which was a disaster |
Operation Ricebowl |
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This op consisted of an air bridge that span 7,000 miles and 20,500 strategic airlift missions to the Persian gulf |
Operation desert shield |
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The first war with extensive, broad based employment of space support capabilities |
The Gulf War |
This was when Saddam Hussein tried to take Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf |
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He commanded the units that carried out the 1st strike mission in desert storm with 9 army apaches led by other helicopters, also 27,000 aircraft from 14 countries and services |
General Charles A Horner |
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Operation carried out to provide relief for suffering refugees near the Somali-kenya border and Somalia itself. 2 year civil war contributed to a famine in Somalia that killed up to 35,000 people in 1992 |
Operation provide relief |
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The United States initiated this operation to airlift hundreds of Pakistani soldiers under the UN banner to Somalia |
Operation Impressive Lift |
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Authorized by President Bush to establish order in Somalia so that food could reach those in need |
Operation Restore Hope |
They were starving and had no hope to live |
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The airlifting of 1,700 US troops and 3,100 tons of cargo into Mogadishu in October 1993 in response to losses sustained on 3 and 4 October |
Restore hope 2 |
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Initiated in response to the Serbian government oppressing it's ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo, it was the first operational employment of joint direct attack munitions demonstrating precision adverse weather delivery of multiple weapons against multiple aim points on a single pass |
Operation Allied Force |
These were our allies (AAAALLLBANIA) |
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A military coup on a tiny Caribbean island of Grenada aroused US attentiin |
Urgent Fury |
Coup aroused ANGER of the US |
