Awards and decorations of the United States Air Force

the US Air Force. On the August 20th 1963 we left Connellsville for Lackland Airforce Base in Antonio TX for basic training. He and I ended up spending some of the hottest months of the year in Texas. I can still remember getting off the airplane in San Antonio at 3 AM and being shocked at the heat and humidity (~85 degrees). After our twelve weeks of basic training at Lackland we graduated and John and I went our separate ways. He headed to aircraft electronics school at Keesler Air Force base…

encountered MSgt Sherrod at work and he impacted me in a way that would shape my whole future and military career. I didn’t know it at the time, but he was a blessing in my life, especially when I didn’t want to believe it. I arrived at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri in the fall of 2014. I was a brand new Airman and proud of it. I was ready to accomplish any task set in front of me. I was assigned to Echo flight and heard rumors of my new Flight Chief. I knew he was…

War is hell…..This is even more so with the technology build up in the post World War I period that brought new challenges to allied military leaders and a tremendous dichotomy in United States aviation warfare strategy of World War II. Both in Fire and Fury by Randall Hansen, and Herman Wolk’s Cataclysm: General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan, follow key allied leaders and their bombing strategies. In Fire and Fury, Hansen asserts that the American daylight precision bombing was more…

have to fight diversity at home, well being the time and age of America we still had not changed much in the way of racism and bias-ism. It started for them around late 1930s, when a group of young black Americans wanted to become pilots in the United States military which was completely unheard of, because black Americas “couldn 't fly and fight”…

due to WWII. Zamperini due to the cancellation of the Olympic enrolled in the Army Air Corps. He was later captured by the Chinese and sent into one of their slave camps. Although Louis Zamperini had a very good childhood his life would later be changed, and do the event of him being captured, placed in a slave camp, and surviving, he was one of the most popular men known for his experiences. The paper will state the background of Louis Zamperini’s life. How he was when he was a child, to when…

highly-acclaimed rifle for the United States in World War II. As the standard infantry rifle of the Second World War, the Garand saw combat throughout theaters in Europe with the United States Army and especially in the Pacific with the United States Marine Corps. The major distinction of the M1 Garand series lay in the acceptance of the weapon system as the first self-loading rifle reaching operational status in the world. This occurred at a time when other national military forces were still…

USAFA/CWPH Function: The CWPH office serves as an advisory staff to the Commandant of Cadets on all USAFA CW Human Relations Climate (HRC) and Human Relations Training and Education (HRT&E) related programs. The program’s primary objective is to foster an equal opportunity environment that develops leaders of character, who respect the dignity of all human beings, and who use human relations skills as an integral part of effective leadership. The program also works to integrate AF EO and…

I found out about Particle Acceleration when I went to the United States Air Force Academy Summer Seminar in a class where we learned about propulsion. The topic covered was electrodynamics and it related to a particle accelerator. I have researched the particle accelerator online and watched videos over the CERN, largest particle accelerator in the world. I would like to further my studies in this topic so I can develop a large understanding of exactly how and why the particle accelerator is…

1944, one hundred and forty-five thousand African American men served in the US Army Air Force in the 99th Fighter Squadron, known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen set themselves apart by being awarded two Presidential Unit Citations for outstanding tactical air support and aerial combat, as well as multiple silver stars, fourteen bronze stars, and seven hundred and forty-four air medals amongst other awards. The Tuskegee Airmen would even go on to be awarded in 2007 with the…

well was the first of the Enterprise ships that was a aircrafts carrier. The USS Enterprise was very important during during World War II because it was in many battles that help the United States won in the Pacific side and never sunk. Also the carrier had created psychological effect it play in both the United States and Imperial Japan due to many reasons. One way the USS Enterprise was important for the Americans during World War II was because it made the Doolittle Raid possible. The plan…