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Burst of Joy. The photograph Burst of Joy. From left to right, Lt Col Robert L. Stirm, Lorrie Stirm, Bo Stirm (Robert L. Stirm Jr.), Cindy Stirm, Loretta Stirm, and Roger Stirm. Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973, at Travis Air Force Base in Solano ...
On May 9, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Obama gave a tongue-in-cheek announcement that his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, were grounded for scaring New Yorkers with Air Force One. In August, the Associated Press reported that the Air Force used the social networking site Twitter to track the negative public reaction to the incident.
A B-52H bomber taking off from Minot Air Force Base in August 2007. Date. 29–30 August 2007. Location. Minot AFB, North Dakota, and Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. Result. Six nuclear warheads mishandled and unaccounted for, or improperly secured, for approximately 36 hours. On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80 ...
President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that he is tapping Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., a history-making fighter pilot with deep knowledge of China, to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...
Roswell incident. / 33.95028°N 105.31417°W / 33.95028; -105.31417. The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project Mogul, the balloon was ...
U.S. Air Force F-22A and F-35A over Florida's Emerald Coast. Today, the United States Air Force is the largest air force in the world, with about 5,778 manned aircraft in service, approximately 156 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles, 2,130 Air-Launched Cruise Missiles, and 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles. The USAF has 328,439 personnel on ...
The Commemorative Air Force ( CAF ), formerly known as the Confederate Air Force, [1] is an American non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas, that preserves and shows historical aircraft at airshows, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The CAF has about 13,000 members, more than 70 chapters, and more than 170 aircraft, [2] including the ...
Air Force One is the official air traffic control designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. In common parlance, the term is used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and used to transport the president and a metonym for the primary presidential aircraft, VC-25, although it can ...