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CPL EDWARD WARD AND PVT JOSEPH BARRETT LEARNED TO INFLATE & REPAIR BALLOONS AT FT WOOD ON BELOES ISLAND IN ____,BEGINNING THE STORY OF TODAY'S AIR FORCE.
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JUNE 1907
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WHAT WAS THE FIRST STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE US MILITARY'S AIR ARM?
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AURONAUTICAL DIVISION, US ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
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DURING WICH YEAR(S) WAS THE UNS MILITARY'S AIR ARM CALLED THE ARMY SERVICE?
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1918-1926
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WHEN DID THE US ARMY FIRST USE BALLOON DETACHMENTS?
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DURING THE CIVIL WAR
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NAME THE FREELANCE CIVILAIN WHO RECORDED FIRST USEFUL BALLOON RECONNAISSANCE MISSION FOR THE ARMY IN 1861.
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JOHN LA MOUNTAIN
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IN AUGUST 1861, THADDEUS LOWE DEMONSTRATED THAT A BALLOON COULD EFFECTIVELY ....
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DIRECT ARTILLERY FIRE BY TELEGRAPH
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WHOSE BALLOON, SANTIAGO, WAS ISED BY THE SIGNAL CORPES DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR?
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WILLIAM IVY BALDWIN
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THE WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLWE THEIR HEAVIER-THAN-AIR CRAFT AT KITTY HAWK,
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NC IN 1903
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WHERE DID THE WAR DEPARTMENT SEND WARD BARRET, ASSIGNED TO THE SIGNAL CORP'S SMALL AERONAUTICAL DIVISION, ON 2 JULY 1907?
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TO A BALLOON FACTORY IN NEW YORK CITY TO BE SCHOOLED IN FABRIC HANDLING, MANUFACTURING BUOYANT GASES AND INFLATION AND CONTROL OF BALLOONS
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THE ENLISTED CREW OF THE SIGNAL CORPS' AERONAUTICAL DIVISION NEVER NUMBERED MORE THAN A FEW HUNDRED. IN THE DECADE BEFORE WW1, WHAT ENTIRELY NEW SKILL DID THEY LEARN?
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KEEPING FLIMSY NEW AIRPLANES FLYING AS MECHANICIANS
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FROM THE BEGINING, PILOTS WERE...
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MOSTLY OFFICERS, WITH A FEW ENLISTED MEN.
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WHO HEADED THE NEW THREE PERSON AERONAUTICAL DIVISION OF TH EUS ARMY SIGNAL CORPS IN 1907?
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CHARLES CHANDLER
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WHO BECAME THE ARMY'S FIRST ENLISTED PILOT IN 1912?
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PFC VERNON BURGE
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IN AUGUST 1908, THE WRIGHT BROTHERS ARRIVED AT FT MYERS WITH THE US ARMY'S FIRST AIRPLANE, AEROPLAN NO1. WHY WAS THIS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS AFTER THE WRIGHT BROTHER' SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT?
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THE GOVERNMENT  REFUSED TO ACCEPT THAT MAN HAD FLOWN IN A HEAVIER THAN AIR MACHINE.
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WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE ARMY'S FIRST DIRIGIBLE?
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DIRIGIBLE NO 1
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WHO DIED WHILE TESTING AEROPLANE NO 1 AT FT MYERS IN SEPTEMBER 1908, SUSPENDING FURTHER TESTING UNTIL THE SUMMER OF 1909, WHEN THE SIGNAL CORPS FOMALLY ACCEPTED THE AIRPLANE?
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LT THOMAS E SELFRIDGE
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WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF AEROPLANE  NO 1 WHEN PART OF THE AERONAUTICAL DIVISION OS THE US ARMY SIGNAL CORPS ARRIVED AT FT SAM HOUSTON, TX IN 1910?
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LT BENJAMIN D FOULOIS
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AT FT SAM HOUSTON, WHAT DID PVTS GLENN MADOLE & VERNON BURGE, ALONG WITH A CIVILIAN MECHANIC, BUILD TO IMPROVE THE EARLY FRAGILE AIRCRAFFT?
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A WHEELED LANDING SYSTEM
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WHY WAS SCOTT AFB, IL NAMED IN HONOE OF CPL FRANK SCOTT?
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 A MECHANIC, HE WAS THE FIRST ENLISTED PERSON TO DIE IN A MILITARY AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT
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NAME THE OLDEST AIR FORCE SQUADRON, ACTIVATED ON 5 MARCH 1913.
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THE 1ST AERO SQUADRON
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CONGRESS AUTHORIZED THE AVAIATION SECTION OF THE SIGNAL CORPS ON 18 JULY 1914, CONSITING OF HOW MANY OFFICERS AND ENLISTED MEN?
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60 OFFICERS AND 260 ENLISTED MEN
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WHAT MILITARY RATING IDD CONGRESS CREATE WHEN IT AUTHORIZED THE AVIATION SECTION OF THE SIGNAL CORPS,CALLING FOR 50% PAY INCREASE FOR ENLISTED MEN INSTRUCTED IN THE ART OF FLYING WHILE FLYING STATUS?
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AVIATION MECHANICIAN
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IN MARCH 1916, WHAT DID PRESIDENT WILSON ORDER THE 1ST AERO SQUADRON TO DO?
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HELP PROTECT THE BORDER OF MEXICO AND APPREHEND THE REBEL PANCHO VILLA
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WHAT AIRCRAFT DID THE 1ST AERO SQUADRON FLY ON THE RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS AND TO DELIVER MAIL & DISPATHCES WHILE PROTECTNG THE BORDER WITH MEXICO IN 1916?
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CURTISS JN-3 " JENNIES"
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TE FRUITLESS CAMPAIGN AGAINST PANCHO VILLA WAS RECALLED AFTER ___ MONTHS.
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11 MONTHS
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ALTHOUGH THE 1ST AERO SQUADRON'S PERFORMANCE WAS ADMIRABLE, THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION'S DEMONSTRATION OF AIR POWER WAS DISAPPOINTING. HOWEVER, WHAT VALUABLE AVIATIOB LESSON(S) WAS/ WERE LEARNED?
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  • THIER NEED FOR ADEQUATE MAINTANANCE
  • THE REALITIES OF AVIATION UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS
  • THE NEED FOR PLENTY OF BACKUP AIRCRAFT TO ROTATE INTO SERVICE
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WHOS EFFORTS HELPED PASS THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT OF 3 JUNE 1916, GIVING THE SIGNAL CORPS AUTHORITY TO TRAIN ENISTED PILOTS?
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GEN BILLY MITCHELL
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BY AMERICA'S ENTRY INTO WW1, HOW MANY NONOFFICERS WERE PILOTS?
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NO MORE THAN A DOZEN
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WHEN DID WW1 BEGIN IN EUROPE?
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AUGUST 1914
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HOW MANY SQUADRONS WERE FULLY EQUIPPED, MANNED AND ORGANIZED WHEN THE US DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY ON 6 APRIL 1917?
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ONE
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TRADITIONALLY, COMMMISSIONED OFFICERS SERVED AS PILOTS BEFORE WW1. TRAINED ENLISTED PERSONNEL SERVED IN MANY TRYPES OF AUXILLARY CAPACAITIES,BUT WHICH ONE WAS NEEDED MOST?
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MECHANICS
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AT FIRST, SEVICE FACTORIES WERE USED AS TRAINING SITES. BY THE END OF 1917, THE AVATION SECTION TRAINED MECHANICS AND OTHERS AT SPECIAL SCHOOLS AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS. WHERE WERE THE TWO LOCATED?
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ST PAUL, MN AND KELLYFIELD, TX
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WHICH WW1 SERGEANT COMMANDED A FLIGHT SCHOOL, WAS COMMISSIONED AS A PILOT, IS KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF BLIND FLIGHT" AND SELECTED THE SITE THAT BECAME KNON AS BOLLING FIELD, WASHINGTON DC?
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WILLIAM C COCKER
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WHICH TWO COUNTRIES DID AMERICAN PILOTS FLY WITH IN THE EUROPEAN WAS AS EARLY AS 1915?
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GREAT BRITIAN & FRANCE
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DURING WW1, THE AMERICAN-MANNED LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE OF FRANCE INCLUDED ONE OF THE VERY FEW BLACK MEN OF ANY NATIONALITY, TO SERVE AS A PILOT. WHO WAS HE?
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CPL EUGENE BULLARD
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SOME 3,000 ENLISTED PILOTS FLEW THE WORLD WAS & INTO THEA EARLY MONTHS OF WORLD WAR 2 WITHOUT OFFICIAL FLYING STATUS, UNTIL CONGRESS ENACTED PUBLIC LAW ___ IN 1941.
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PUBLIC LAW 99
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LATE IN ____, CONGRESS PASSED THE FLIGHT OFFICER ACT (PUBLIC LAW 658), AUTOMATICALLY PROMOTING SERGEANT PILOTS TO FLIGHT OFFICERS & RESERVING TE COCKPIT FOR THE COMMISIONED.
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1942
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WHO WERE OFTEN THE FIRST ENLISTERD MEN STATIONED AT OVERSEAS LOCATIONS DURING THE WW1?
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CONSTRUCTION PERSONNEL
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SGT FRED C. GRAVELINE, AN OBSERVER & AERIAL GUNNER, WAS ONE OF ONLY ___ ENLISTED PERSONELL TO RECEIVE THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS DURING WW1.
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FOUR
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WHICH PRESIDENT TRANSFERED ARMY AVAITION FROM SIGNAL CORPS CONTROL TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR IN 1918?
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PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
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THE ARMY REORGANIZATION ACT OF ___ MADE THE AIR SERVICE AN OFFICIAL COMBAT ARM OF THE ARMY.
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1920
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WHEN THE ARMISTANCE ENDING WW1 WAS SIGNED, MORE THAN 190,000 MEN WERE IN THE AIR SERVICE. ON THAT SAME DAY, THE AIR SERVICE BEGAN DISSOLING ITS FORCES & HELPING, DICHARGED ENLISTED MEN FIND JOBS. WHAT WAS THAT DATE?
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11 NOVEMBER 1918
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GEN MITCHELL SUCCESSFULLY PROVED THAT AIRPLANES COULD SINK BATTLESHIPS BEGINNING IN 1921. NAME THE BOMBARDIER WHO DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF IN 1923 WITH INNOVATIVE TACTICS TO SCORE DIRECT HITS.
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SGT ULYSSES "SAM" NERO
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WHAT DID THE NATIONAL DEFENCE ACT OF 1920 DO?
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CALLED FOR AN AIR ARM OF 16,000 ENLISTED MEN AND ESTABLISED THE BASIC GRADE STRUCTURE THE AIR FORCE USES TODAY
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FROM 1919 THROUGH THE MID 1920'S, THE RELATIVELY LIMITED AIR ACTIVITES FOCUSED ON ESTABLISHING RECORDS, TESTING EQUIPMENT AND GARNERING WITH...
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TRAVELING SHOWS
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AIR SHOWS LESSENED AFTER 1926, WHEN THE SPERATE AIR COPRS WAS ESTABLISHED. WHY WERE THEY BANNED IN 1932?
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BECAUSE OF SCARCE FUNDING DUE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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IN 1923, WHO RECOMMENDED CREATING BOMBARDMENT &  PURSUIR UNITS TO CARRY OUT INDEPENDENT MISSIONS IN TIME OF WAR UNDER COMMAND OF ARMY GENERAL HEAD QUARTERS?
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THE LASSITER BOARD
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IN DECEMBER IN 1925, WHO PROPOSED AN INDEPENDENT, UNIFIED AIR FORCE PLUS A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE TO COORDINATE THE THREE ARMED SERVICES?
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THE HOUSE LAMPERT COMMITTEE
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THE MORROW BOARD SUBMITTED ITS REPORT TWO WEEKS EARLIER THAN THE HOUSE LAMPERT COMMITTES IN 1925.
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CREATING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
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WHAT ACT CREATED THE AIR CORPS IN THE ARMY CREATED AN ADDITIONAL SECRETARY OF WAR AND ESTABLISHED AN AIR SECTIONIN EACH DIVISION OF THE GENERAL STAFF FOR THREE YEARS?
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THE AIR CORPS ACT OF 1926
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WHY DIDNT THE AIR CORPS MEET THE 5 YEAR EXPANSION PLAN PROVIDED IN THE AIR CORPS ACT?
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BEACAUSE ADEQUATE FUNDS WERENOT APPROPRIATED
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DURING THE 20 YEARS BETWEEN WORLD WARS...
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MOST ENLISTED PILOTS WERE NCO'S HOLDING COMMISSIONS IN THE RESERVES
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WAHT WAS SGT RALPH BOTTRIELL HONEORED FOR IN 1933?
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HE TESTED THE FIRST BACKPACK-STYLE FREEFALL PARACHUTE IN 1919 & EARNED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS IN 1933 FOR SERVICE AS A N EXPERIMENTAL PARACHUTE TESTER.
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WHY DID THE AIR CORPS COMMANDERS HALT ENLISTED PILOT TRAINING IN 1933?
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THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TOO EXPENSIVE & BLAMMED A SHORTAGE OF FUNDS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
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WHY DID THE ARMY AIR FORCES REVITALIZE THE FLYING SERGEANTS & LAUNCH A MASIVE PROGRAM OF ENLISTED PILOT TRAINING?
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THE THREAT OF WW2 MADE GENERAL HEADQUATERS (GHQ) AIR FORCE VIEW ENLISTED PILOTS MORE POSITIVELY.
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WHAT WAS CREATED IN 1935 AS A CONFUSING HALF-STEP TOWARD AN INDEPENDENT AIR FORCE?
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GHQ AIR FORCE
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ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF GLOBAL WAR BEFORE WW2, WHAT BROUGHT GREATER EXPENDITURES, MANPOWER & SPECIALIZED & SOPHISTICATED TRAINING TO GHQ AIR FORCE?
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THE APPEARANCE OF THE B-17 BOMBER
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THE KEY TO TECHNICLE SCHOOL SUCCESS BEFORE WW2 WAS THE AIR SERVICE SYSTEM OF TRADE TESTING, COMBINING THE ARMY ALPHA TEST, APTITURE TEST AND...
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COUNCILING
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IN 1940, CONGRESS PASSED THE FIRST ___ LAW IN THE US HISTORY.
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PEACETIME CONSCRIPTION
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WHO BECAME THE CHIEF OF AIR COPRS IN 1938, THEN THE NEW ARMY DEPUTY OF STAFF FOR AIR IN 1941?
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GEN H.H "HAP" ARNOLD
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WHO BECAME A POPULAR HERO AS A GUNNER IN B OTHE THE PACIFIC &EUROPE DURING WW1 & WAS DECORATED EIGHT TIMES FOR HEROISM, INCLUDING PERSONL RECOGNITIONS FROM GENERALS MCARTHER, EISENHOWER & DOOLITTLE?
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CPL JOHN "JOHNNY ZERO" D. FOLEY
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WHAT WAS THE ESTIMATED RATIO OF SUPPORT PERSONNEL TO PLANES DURING WW1?
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70 MEN PER PLANE
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WOMEN SERVED IN THE ARLY AIR FORCE DURING WW2 THROUGH THE WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILLARY CORPS (WAAC), CREATED IN MAY 1942 & LATER RENAMED THE WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS (WAS). WHAT WAS THE TOP PRIORITY FOR ASSIGNMENT TO WAAC'S DURING WW2?
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SERVING AT AIRCRAFT WARNING SERVICE STATIONS
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SGT SANDY SANCHEZ WAS ONE OF THE ENLISTED FORCE'S MOST DECORATED AIRMAN OF WW2. WHAT WAS HIS POSITION?
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GUNNER
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THE 25TH LIASON SQUADRON WAS ONE OF THE MORE CELEBRATED LIASON UNITS. hWICH OF ITS MEMBERS EARNED THE AIR MEDAL & SILVER STAR FOR SEPARAT PACIFIC RESCUE EXPLOITS IN EARLY 1944?
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SSGT JAMES NICHOLS
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WHO WAS HELD AS A POW FOR 10 MONTHS IN GERMANY DURING WW2 BEFORE BEING LIBERATED, LATER BECAME THE FIRST CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT OF THE AIR FORCE (CMSAF) IN 1967 & ALSO RECEIVED THE FIRST AIR FORCE POW MEDAL IN 1988?
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TSGT PAUL AIREY
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WHEN DID THE AIR WING OF THE ARMY ACCPET BLACKS IN THE SERVICE, ADMITTING THEM ON A STRICTLY SEGREGATED BASIS & ONLY WHEN FORCED BY CONGRESS & WARTIME EMERGENCY?
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1942
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DURING WW2, TRAINING 7 SERVICE FOR BLACK ENLISTED ARIMAN AND OFFICERS WERE MOSTLY CONFINED TO A SINGLE, SEPERATE BASE AT ...
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TUSKEGEE, AL
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WHAT LED TO INTEGRATION OF THE AIR FORCE?
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AIR FORCE LETTER 35.3 IN 1949
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WHEN DID THE THIRD REICH SURRENDER?
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MAY 1945
Term
THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON _____, JAPAN FROM THE ENOLA GAY IN AUGUST 1945.
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HIROSHIMA
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THREE DAYS AFTER HIROSHIMA, ____ DROPPED THE SECOND NUCLEAR ON NAGASAKI, JAPAN.
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BOCK'S CAR
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SIX ENLISTED MEMBERS HAVE RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF HONEO, AMERICA'S HIGHEST MILITARY DECORATION. HOW MANY RECEIVED THIS MEDAL DURING WW2?
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FOUR
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ALL OF THESE ENLISTED MEMBERS WERE AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR DURING WW2.
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  • MAYNARD HARRISON "SNUFFY" SMITH
  • FORREST LEE VOSLER
  • HENRY EUGENE "RED" ERWIN
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NAME THE TWO ENLISTED AIR FORCE MEMBERS WHO RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF HONEOT DURING THE VIETNAM CONFLICT.
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WILLIAM H. PITSENBARGER & JOHN LEVITOW
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WHO EARNED THE FIRST MEDAL OF HONOR WARD TO AN ENLISTED MAN FOR ACTIONS ON HIS VER FIRST MISSION WHEN HIS AIRCRAFT WAS ATTACKED OVER FRANCE?
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SSGT MAYBARD H. 'SNUFFY" SMITH
Term
WHO EARNED A MEDAL OF HONOR AS A RADIO OPERATOR WHENDESPITE MULTIPLE WOUNDS &IMPEDED VISION, HE TOOK OVER AS TAIL GUINNER & REPAIR A RADIO BY TOUCH TO SEND A DISTRESS SIGNAL OVER GERMANY?
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TSGT FORREST L. VOSLER
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WHICH ENGINEER & BALL TURRET GUNNER EARNED A MEDAL OF HONOR POSTHUMOUSLY FOR FLYING A SEVERELY DAMAGED AIRCRAFT FRO GERMANY BACK TO ENGLAND AFTER PILOT WAS WOUNDED AND THE COPILOT KILLER?
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SSGT ARCHIBALD MATHIES
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WHO EARNED THE USAAF ENLISTED CORPS' FINAL MEDAL OF HONOR AS A RADIO OPERATOR ABOURD A B-29 ATTACKING A CHEMICAL PLANT IN KORIYAMA, JAPAN WHEN HE CRADLED A FLARE AND HURLED IF THROUGH THE COPILOT'S WINDOW, BADLY BURNING HIMSELF, TO SAVE THE PLANE?
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SSGT HENRY E "RED" ERWIN
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THE MASSIVE WW2 USAAF DEMOBILIZED IN ONLY A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE END OF THE WAR, RETURNING ALMOST ____ MEN TO CIVILIAN LIFE.
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2,000,000 MEN
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BETWEEN 1945 AND 1947, THE WAR DEPARTMENT REORGANIZED THE USAF INTO THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (SAC), TACTICAL AIR COMMAND (TAC) AND ...
 Definition
AIR DEFENCE COMAND (ADC)
Term
WHIC USAAF COMMAND'S MISSION WAS TO DELIVER AIR POWER TO DISTANT LANDS?
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STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (SAC)
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WHAT WAS THE ADC'S ( AIR DEFFENCE COMAND) MISSION IN THE USAAF?
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TO DEFEND THE US HOMELAND
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HOW MANY PLANES & OPERRATIONAL UNBITS DID TAC (TACTICAL AIR COMMAND)FIRST HAVE?
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NO PLANES OR OPERATIONAL UNITS, ONLY STAFF
Term
WHAT ACTION ESTABLISHED THE DEPARTMENT OF THE AOR FOCE & THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ON 26 JULY 1947?
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CONGRESS PASSED THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT (NSA)
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NAME THE FIRST CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE US AIR FORCE (CSAF)
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GEN CARL A. SPAATZ
Term
WHO WAS THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (SECAF) UNDER THE NEWLY ORGANIZED DOD?
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W. STUART SYMINGTON
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NAME THE FIRST SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (SECDEF)
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JAMES V. FORRESTAL
Term
IN THE 1950'S, THE SEPARATE AIR FORCE & HARDWARE SOPHISTICATION EMPHASIZED SPECIALIST WHO WERE RATED AS ...
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SENIOR AIRMAN & STAFF SERGEANTS
Term
IN THE NEW AIR FORCE, WHAT WERE ESTABLISDHED AS STANDARD DESIGNATIONNS FOR FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL SPECIALIST?
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AIR FORCE SPECIALTY CODES (AFSC'S)
Term
DURING THE LATE 1940'S, WHAT PROGRAM DID THE AIR FORCE BEGIN TO ENCOURAGE LONG-TERM CAREERS FOR SPECIALIST?
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AIRMAN CAREER PROGRAM
Term
WHAT IS ESTHER BLAKE FAMOUSE FOR?
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SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO ENLIST IN THE AIR FORCE
Term
WHAT DID THE BIG THREE (BBRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL, SOVIET PREMIER JOSEF STALIN AND US PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROSEVELT) MEET IN 1945 TO DISCUSS?
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POSTWAR DIVISION OF EUROPE
Term
WHAT 1946 EVENT LED TO ALMOST FIVE DECADES OF COLD WAR BETWEEN THE ATOMIC SUPERPOWERS?
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THE SOVIET UBION VETO OF THE UN PLAN TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Term
WHEN THE SOVIET UNION CLOSED OFF ALL SURFACE ACCESS TO BERLIN, GERMANY IN JUNE 1948, MAJGEN WILLIAM TUNNER LED THE ALLIED AIRCRAFT THAT "BUILT" AN AIR BRIDGE TO SUPPLY BERLIN RATHER THAN FORCING THE BLOCKADE & RISKING WW3. HOW LONG DID THIS AIRLIFT LAST?
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15 MONTHS
Term
WHAT WAS AIRPOWER;S MOST DECISIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE COLD WAR?
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THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
Term
OF ALL THE ENLISTED FUNCTIONS, WHICH WAS PERHAPS MOST CRITICAL TO THE SUCESS OF THE BERLIN AIRLIFT?
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MANTENENCE
Term
THE SOVIETS CAPITULATED & DISMANTLED THE SURFACE BLOAKDE OF BERLIN WITHOUG A BOMB BEING DROPPED. FOR WHAT DID THIS VICTORY LAY THE FOUNDATION?
 Definition
THE NATIONAL ATLANTIC TREAT ORGANIZATION (NATO)
Term
THE KOREAN WAR BEGAN WITH A SURPRISE INVASION OF SOUTH KOREA BY  NORTH KOREA ON 25 JUNE 1950 & LASTED UNTIL...
 Definition
1953
Term
ENLISTED PERSONNEL SERVED AS GUNNERS ABOURD THE B-26 AND B-29 DURING THE KOREAN WAR. NAME THE NCO WHO SHOT DOWN A NORTH KOREAN YAK-3, THE FISRT SUCH VICTORY RECORDED DURING THE WAR.
 Definition
SSGT NYLE S. MICKLEY
Term
WHICH PLANE PERFORMED THREE NEW MISSIONS-INTERDICTION BATTLEFIELD SUPPORT AND AIR SUPERIORITY (COUNTERAIRFIELD) THAT HADNT CONSIDERED BEFORE KOREAN WAR?
 Definition
B-29
Term
ON 9 NOVEMBER 1950, WHO SCORED THE FIRST B-29 VICTORY OVER A JET BY DOWNING A MIC-15, THE FIST OF 27 MIGS SHOT DOWN BY B-29 GUNNERS?
 Definition
CPL HARRY LAVENE
Term
NAME THE NCO WHO SHOT DOWN TWO MIGS ON 12 APRIL 1951, A FEAT UNMATCHED BY ANY OTHER GUNNER?
 Definition
SGT BILLIE BEACH
Term
THE HELICOPTER BECAME AN IMPORTANT AIRCRADT DURING THE KOREAN WAR, PARTICULARY IN RESUE SQUADRONS. THE ___ AIR RESCUE WAS THE MOST DECORATED UNIT IN THE WAR.
 Definition
3D
Term
U SOFRCES LANDED IN SOUTH LOREA & PURSUED THE BEATEN NORTH KOREAN ARMY NORTH OF THE 38TH PARALLED IN SEPTEMBER 1950. WHAT EVEN ABRUPTLY ENDED THE US-LED COUNTEROFFENSIVE IN LATE NOVEMBER?
 Definition
CHINA ENTERED THE  WAR FULL-SCALE ON THE SIDE OF NORTH KOREA
Term
WHO WON THE LEGION OF MERIT DURING THE KOREAN WAR FOR INVENTING A NEW WAY TO REPLACE HINGE OINS ON THE F-84 AIR CRAFT, TURNIGN A 2-MAN, 20 HOUR JOB INOT A 1 MAN 2-HOUR JOB/
 Definition
MSGT LEROY HENDERSON
Term
STARTING IN 1956, ENLISTED RADIO & ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES OPERATORS STAFFED THE 99TH BOMB WING UNTIL COMMISIIONED ELECTRONIC WARFARE OFFICES (EWO) REPLACEMENTS BECAME AVAILBALE IN LATE ____.
 Definition
1964
Term
IN 1959, FIDEL CASTRO OVERTHREW THE DICTATOR OF ___ AND INSTITUTED A SOCIAL DICTATORSHIP.
 Definition
CUBA
Term
THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) PLANNED THE 1961 INVASION OF CUBA AT THE BAY OF PIGS IN HOPES THAT THE CUBAN PEOPLE WOULD OVERTHROW CASTRO. WHO WERE USED AS TROOPS?
 Definition
CUBAN EXILES
Term
AFTER THE CRUSHING DEFEAT AT THE BAY OF PIGS, WHICH COUNTRY INCREASED ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID TO CUBA IN 1961 & BEGAN CONSRUCTING MISSILE COMPLEXWS THERE IN 1962?
 Definition
THE SOVIET UNION
Term
HOW WAS SOVIET CONSTRUCTION OF MISSILE COMPLEXES IN CUBA FISRT CONFIRMED?
 Definition
HIGH-ALTITUDE U-2 AIRCRAFT
Term
HOW DID THE US RESPOND TO THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?
 Definition
  • SAC & TAC GERAED UP FOR A PISSIBLE INVATSION OF CUBA AND WAR
  • PRESIDENT KENNEDY IMPOSSED A NAVAL BLOCKADE TO PREVENT ANY JMORE MATERIAL FROM REACHING CUBA
  • PRESIDENT KENNEDY NEGOTIATED WITH SOVIET PRMIER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEC TO REMOVE THE MISSILES
Term
WHICH COUNRTY THREATENED TO LEAVE VIETNAM TO HO CHI MINH AND COMMUNISM IN 1950 IF THE US DIDNT INTERVENE?
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FRANCE
Term
WHICH PRESIDENT FISRT AUTHORIZED AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM?
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PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN
Term
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WERE INCLUDED IN THE ECONOMIC & MILITARY AIR FIRST SEND TO VIETNAM BETWEEN 1950 & 1953 ...
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  • $75 MILLION
  • EIGHT C-47 TRANSPORTS
  • THE MILITARY ASSISTANCE ADVISORS GROUP (MAAG)
Term
WHICH PRESIDENT FELT VIETNAM WAS THE FIRST OF A RO OF DOMINOES THAT OUWLD FALL TO COMMUNISM WITHOUT US INTERVENTION?
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PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
Term
WHAT 1953 WIET MINH ACTION LED PRESIDENT EISENHOWER TO SEND C-119 TRANSPORTS TO VIETNAM & LOAN ADDITIONAL CARGO PLANES TO THE FRENCH?
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THEIR MAJOR OFFENSIVE ADVANCED INTO LAOS AND MENACED THAILAND
Term
WHICH VIETNAM OPERATIONS SPRAYED HERBICIDES TO KILL FOLIAGE AND DENY THE ENEMY COVER?
 Definition
OPERATION RANCH HAND
Term
WHO WAS THE FIRST AIR FORCE ENLISTED MEMBER TO DIE IN SOUTH VIETNAM?
 Definition
SSGT MILO B COGHILL
Term
WHAT WAS THE FIRST SUSTAINED BOMBING CAMPAIGN OF THE WAR AGAINST NORTH VIETNAM (1965-1968)?
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER
Term
AIRMAN PERFORMED A VARIETY OF DUTIES AS THE WAR IN VIETNAM EXPANDED, RANGING FROM SUPPORT TO COMBAT RESCUE. WHAT DID RED HORSE TEAMS DO?
 Definition
PROVIDE LONG-RANGE CIVIL ENGINEER SERVICES
Term
GUNNERS FLEW ABOURD GUNSHIPS, B-57S AND B-52S. NAME THE B-52 TAIL GUNNER WHO SHOT DOWN AN ENEMY MIG, THE FIRST OF ONLY TWO CONFIRMED SHOOOT DOWNS BY ENLISTED AIRMAN DURING THE VIETNAM WAR?
 Definition
SSGT SAMUEL TURNER
Term
THE FIFTH OVERALL MIG-21 KILL DURING LINEBACKER 2 IN VIETNAM WENT TO WHOM?
 Definition
AIC ALBERT E. MOORE
Term
WHAT LOADMASTER EARNED THE MEDAL OF HONOR WHEN, AFTER SUFFERING 40 SHRAPNEL WOULNDS, HE FELL ON AN ARMED FLARE, DRAGGED IT TO THE CARGE DOOR AND HEAVED IT OUT AFTER HIS PLANE WAS HIT OVER VIETNAM IN 1969?
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 A1C JOHN LEVITOW
Term
AS GUERILLA ATTACKS CONTINUED, AIR BASE DEFENSE IN VIETNAM BECAME A MONUMENTAL UNDERTAKING PERFORMED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY BY ...
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AIR FORCE SECURITY POLICE SQUADRON
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NAME THE MEMBER OF THE 3D SECURITY POLICE SQUADRON WHO EARNED A SILVER STAR FOR HEROICS WHILE HELPING DEFEND BIEN HOA AIR BASE IN VIETNAM DURING THE NORTH VIETNAMESE TET OFFENSIVE IN 1968.
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SSGT WILLIAM PIAZZA
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HOW DID TH EAIR FORCE USE HELICOPTERS IN VIETNAM?
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PERSONNEL AND SUPPLY TRANSPORT
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OF THE 19 AIR FORCE CROSS RECIPIENTS FROM THE VIETNAM CONFLICT, 10 WERE ...
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PARARESCUE PERSONNEL
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NAME THE PARARESCUE CREWMEMBER WHO DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF WITH EXTREME VALOR WHILE RESPONDING TO A CALL FOR EVACUATION OF CASUALTIES IN AN ONGOING FIREFIGHT IN VIETNAM, POSTHUMOUSLY EARNING AN AIR FORCE CROSS THAT WAS UPGRADED TO THE MEDAL OF HONOR IN 2001.
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A1C WILLIAM PITSENBARGER
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NAME THE PARARESCUEMAN WHO WAS CREDITED WITH 51 COMBAT RESCUES-THE MOST IN AIR FORCE HISTORY.
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SGT STEVE NORTHERN
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NAME THE NCO WHOSE FIERCE DEFENSE OF A RADAR SITE IN LOAS IN 1968 EARNED HIM A POSTHUMOUS AIR FORCE CROSS, ALTHOUGH THE CASE REMAINED CLASSIFIED FOR 17 YEARS.
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CMSGT RICHARD ETCHBERGER
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ENLISTED AIRMAN TRAINED SOUTH VIETNAMESE OPERATIONAL AND TRAINING CREWS AS VIETNAM'S AIR FORCE GREW TO BECOME THE ___ LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
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FOURTH
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IN 1972, COMMUNIST FORCES CROSSED THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE (DMZ) IN VIETNAM, TAKING ADVANTAGE OFREDUCED US GROUND PRESENCE. HOW DID PRESIDENT NIXON RESPOND?
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HE ORDERED THE HARBORS MINED
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WHAT AIR OPERATION FINNALY CONVINCED THE NORTH VIETNAMESE TO AGREE TO CEASE -FIRE?
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OPERATION LINEBACKER 2
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A CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT WAS HAMMERED OUR WITH THE NORTH VIETNAMESE BY...
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28 JANUARY 1973
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ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO VICTORY AND NO END TO FIGHTING, THE US WITHDREW FROM VIETNAM. WHEN DID THE LAST TROOP LEAVE THE COUNTRY?
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29 MARCH 1973
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WHEN DID THE MILITARY DRAFT END?
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27 JANUARY 1973
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HOW LONG AFTER THE FIRST CEASE-FIRE WERE NORHT AND SOUTH VIETNAM OFFICIALLY UNIFIED UNDER A COMMUNIST REGIME?
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AFTER OLNY THREE YEARS
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WHO WAS THE LAST US SERVICEMAN TO ENGAGE COMMUNIST FORCES IN GROUND COMBAT IN SOUTH ASIA AS HE HELPED RESCUE THE CREW OF THE USS MAYAQUEZ IN FAMED SON TAY P.O.W. CAMP RAID?
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CMSGT WANE FISK
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MANY EARLY DOMESTIC HUMANITARIAN FLIGHTS WERE FLOWN IN RESPONSE TO WINTER EMERGENCIES. HOWEVER, ONE OF THE FIRST KNOWN USES OF AIRLIFT TO RENDER ASSISTANCE WAS DROPPING FOOD TO ___ FLOOD VICTIMS IN 1919.
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RIO GRANDE
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WHAT OPERATIONS IN 1956 AND 1957 AIRLIFTED MORE THAN 10,000 HUNGARIAND REFUGEES TO THE US FOR ASYLUM AFTER THE SOVIET INVASION?
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OPERATIONS SAFE HAVEN 1 AND 2
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WHICH MONTH-LONG AIRLIFT DELIVERED MORE THAN 1,000 TONS OF MATERIAL TO CHILE IN 1960 FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, AVALANCHES AND TIDAL WAVES?
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THE AMIGOS AIRLIFT
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WHAT 1975 EVENT TRIGGERED THE LARGEST AERIAL EVACUATION IN HISTORY?
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FALL OF CAMBODIA AND SOUTH VIETNAM TO COMMUNIST FORCES
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WHAT 1991 HUMANITARY AIRLIFT PROVIDED BLANKETS,TENTS AND FOOD TO DISPLACED KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ FOLLOWING THE PERSIAN GULF WAR?
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OPERATION PROVIDE
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WHAT COUNTRY RECEIVED 3,000 TONS OF SUPPLIES THROUGH OPERATION SEA ANGEL FOLLOWING A 1991 TYPHOON?
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BANGLADESH
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WHAT HUMANITARIAN AIRLIFT IN 1991 AND 1993 PROVIDED FOOD, MEDICIND AND CARGO TO THE REPUBLICS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION?
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OPERATION PROVIDE HOPE
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A 1994 HUMANITARIAN AIRLIFT CARRIED 3,60 TONS OF RELIEF SUPPLIES TO REFUGEES IN WHAT COUNTRY IN WAR-TORN CENTRAL AFRICA?
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RWANDA
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WHAT 1986 OPERATION RESCUED HUNDREDS OF US CITIZENS ATTANDING MEDICAL SCHOOL IN GRENADA AFTER MILITARY COUP?
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OPERATION URGENT FURY
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DURING OPERATION URGENT FURY, WHICH AIRCRAFT PROVED THEIE WORTH REPEATEDLY, SHOWING MORE VERSATILITY AND ACCURACY THAN NAVAL BOMBARDMENT AND LAND ARTILERY?
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AC-13- GUNSHIP
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SEVERAL AIR FORCE ENLISTED PERSONNEL RECEIVED SPECIAL PRAISE FOR THEIR EFFORTS IN OPERATION URGENT FURY. NAME THE LOADMASTER WHO SAVED THE LIFE OF A PARATROOPER AFTER HIS STATIC LINE FOULED, LEAVING THE PARATROUPER ATTACHED THE AIRCRAFT?
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SSGT CHARLES H. TISBY
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BY THE NID 1980S, WHAT COUNTRY WAS A LEADING SPONSOR OF WORLDWIDE TERRORISM, FINANCING WEAPONS, LOGISTICAL SUPPORT AND SAFE HAVENS FOR MANY TERRORIST?
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LIBYA
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WHAT 1984 DOCUMENT ESTABLISHED IN PRINCIPLE A US POLICY OF PREEMPTIVE AND RETALIATORY STRIKES AGAINST TERRORIST?
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NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION DIRECTIVE
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WHT 1986 TERRORIST EVEN TLED PRESIDENT REAGAN TO AUTHORIZE A RETALIATORY AIR STRIKE(EL DORADO CANYON) AGAINST LIBYA?
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THE BOMBING OF A BERLIN DISCOTHQUE OPOULAR WITH US SERVICE MEMBERS
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WHAT 1989  INVASION OF PANAMA BROUGHT ITS LEADER,MANUEL NORIEGA, TO THE US TO FACE DRUG-TRAFFICKING AND MONEY-LAUNDERING CHARGES?
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OPERATION JUST CAUSE
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WHAT COUNTRY DID IRAQ'S SADDAM HUSSEIN ATEMPT TO ANNEX ON 2 AUG 1990?
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KUWAIT
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IN 1990, IRAQ WAS POISED AT SAUDI ARABIA'S DOORSTEP. IF THE SAUDIS ALSO FELL, IRAQ WOULD HAVE CONTROLLED ___% OF THE WORLD'S OLD.
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50%
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THE US SOUGHT AND RECEIVED A UN SANCTION TO ACT AGAINST IRAQ. HOW MANY NATIONS JOINED US IN OPERATION DESERT SHIELD?
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27
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THE MASSIVE MILIRATY BUILDIP IN SAUDI ARABIA NEAR IRAQ'S  BORDER TO DETER SADDAM HUSSWIN'S AGGRESSION AGAINST THE SAUID'S AND PREPARE FOR A COUNTERINVASION, IF NECESSARY, WAS CALLED ..
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OPERATION DESERT SHIELD
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THE DEFENSIVE DEPLOYMENT FOR OPERATION DESERT SHIELD WAS IMPRESSIVE. AMONTH INTO  THE CRISIS, HOW MANY ALLIED AIRCRAFT WERE IN THEATER AND COMBAT READY?
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1,220
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WHEN DID OPERATION DESERT STORM BEGIN?
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15 JANUARY 1991
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DURING DESERT STORM, COALITION AIR FORCES PUNDED ENTRNCHED GROUND FORCES INTO SURRENDER. WHAT DID THEY DO DURING THE FINAL STAGES OF THE AIR WAR?
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"TANK PLINKED"
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THE AIR FORCE CAME OUT OF DESSERT STORM TRUMPETING ...
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AIR SUPREMACY AND MINIMAN OR NO CASUALTIES
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SCARCELY ___ MONTHS AFTER DESERT STORM, STRATEGIC BOMBER CREW ORDERED TO STAND DOWN FROM THEIR DECADES-LONG ROUND THE CLOCK READINESS FOR NUCLEAR WAR, SIGNALING THAT THE COLD WAR WAS OFFICIALLY OVER.
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SIX MONTHS
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WHICH OPERATION (S) DID NOT HELP THE KURDS IN IRAQ?
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OPERATION VIGILANT WARRIOR
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WHN IRAQI TROOPS DEFEATED A KURDISH REBELLION IN NORTHERN IRAQ IN APRIL 1991, MORE THAN A MILLION KURDS FLED TO IRAN AND TURKEY TO AVOID MASACRES. WHAT OPERATION WAS THE UN SECURITY CONCIL AUTHORIZED HUMANITARIAN RELIEF EFFORT?
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OPERATION PROVIDE COMFORT
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WHAT 1996 OPERATIONS AIRLIFTED DISPLACED KURDS TO SAFE AREAS IN TURKEY AFTER KURDISH FACTIONS STRUGGLE FOR POWER LED ONE TO ACCEPT IRAQI BACKING TO DRIVE ANOTHER FROM THE CITY OF IRBIL?
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OPERATION QUICK TRANSIT 1,2 & 3
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WHAT OPERATION REPLACED OPERATION PROVIDE COMFORT IN JANUARY 1997?
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OPERATION NORTHERN WATCH
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WHAT OPERATION ESTABKISHED A NO-FLY ZONE IN 1992 IN SOUTHERN IRAQ TO DISCOURAGE RENEWED IRAQI MILITARY ACTIVITY NEAR KUWAIT?
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OPERATION SOUTHERN WATCH
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WHICH OPERATION PROVED THE AIR AND SPACE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (AEF) CONCEPT WAS SOUND WHEN A COMPOSITE UNIT ARIVED FULLY ARMED AND BEGAN FLYING WITHIN 12 HOURS AOF LANDING? 
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OPERATION SOUTHERN WATCH
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WHICH 1996 EVENT CAUSED THE AIR FORCE TO REORGANIZE THE EXISTING SECURITY POLICE UNITS INTO NEW SECURITY FORCES GROUPS AND SQUADRON TRAINED AND SPECIALIZED IN ALL ASPECTS OF FORCE PROTECTION, INCLUDING TERRORIST ACTIVITY AND DEPLOYING SECURITY?
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THE BOMBING AT KHOBAR TOWERS, DHAHRAN AIR BAS (AB)
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WHIC OPERATION(S) DID THE US INITIATE IN SOMALIA BETWEEN 1992 AND 1994?
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  • OPERATION PROVIDE RELIEF
  • OPERATION IMPRESSIVE LIFT
  • OPERATION RESTORE HOPE 1 & 2
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WHAT 1992 OPERATION RELIEVED THE SUFFERING OF REFUGEES FROM THE FAMINE IN SOMALIA?
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OPERATION PROVIDE RELIEF
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COMTINUED CIVIL WAR AND CLAN FIGHTING SOMALIA PREVENTED MICH OF THE RELIEF SUPPLIES FROM REACHING THE REFUGEES. IN SEPTEMBER 1992, OPERATION IMPRESSIVE LIFT AIRLIFTED HUNDREDS OR ___ SOLDIERS TO SOMALIA TO INCREASE RELIEF EFFORT SECURITY.
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UN
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WHAT OPERATION DID PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH AUTHORIZE IN DECEMBER 1992 TO ESTABLISH ORDER IN SOMALIA USING US TROOPS SO FOOD COULD REACH THOSE IN NEED?
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OPERATION RESTORE HOPE
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INOCTOBER 1993, A US UH-60 WAS DOWNED IN THE STREETS OF MOGADISHU, SOMALIA. WHO EARNED THE AIR FORCE CROSS FOR TREATING AND EVACUATING CASUALTIES.
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TSGT TIMOTHY A WILKINSON
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TO DATE HOW MANY EMLISTED MEMBERS HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE AIR FORCE CROSS?
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23
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WHAT OPERATION WAS PROMTED BY US LOSSES IN MOGADISHU, SOMALIA IN OCTOBER 1993?
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OPERATION RESTORE HOPE 2
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IN 1994, AFTER FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER PERSUADED THE MILITARY LEADER OF _____ TO RELINQUISH CONTROL, OPERATION UPHOLD DEMOCRACY CHANGED FROM A MILITARY  INVASION TO AN INSERTION OF A MULTINATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE.
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HAITI
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WHICH UN AIRLIFT OPERATION TO SARAVEJO IN BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA LASTED FORM 1992 TO 1996?
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OPERATION PROVIDE PROMISE
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THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE, COUPLED WITH THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE SOVIET UNION ITSELF, LED TO WHICH COUNTRY'S BREAK INTO INDEPENDENCE ETHNIC STATES IN 1992?
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YUGOSLAVIA
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THE RELIGIONS THAT WERE PORMINENT IN THE 1992 BREAKUP OF YUGOSLAVIA INCLUDE...
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  • ROMAN CATHOLICISM
  • EASTERN ORTHODOXY
  • ISLAM
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WHAT MINORITY GROUP ARMED THEMSELVES AND BEGAN FORMING THEIR OWN THNIC STATE BY SEIZING TERRITORY AND BESIEGING THE BOSNIAN CAPITAL OF SARAVEJO?
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SERBS
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AT LEAST 15 COUNTRIES AIRLIFTED SUPPLIES TO SARAVEJO. OVER THE COURSE OF THE OPERATION, AIR FORCE RESERVE (AFR), AIR NATIONAL GUARD (ANG) AND ACTIVE DUTY UNITS ROTTED FROM THE US ON ___-WEEK DEPLOYMENTS.
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3 WEEK
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WHAT SECONDARY MISSION DROPPED 50 TONS OF TOYS AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHES AND SHOES OVER SEREVEJO IN DECEMBER 1993?
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OPERATION PROVIDE SANTA
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IN RESPONSE TO CONTINUED ATTACKES BY BOSNIAN SERBS ON SARAVEJO AND ON THE RELIEF AIRCRAFT THEMSELVES, WHAT DID PRESIDENT CLINTON DO?
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SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND OPERATION PROVIDE PROMISE
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WHERE DID WARRING BOSNIAN FACTIONS SIGN PEACE ACCORDS INDECEMBER 1995?
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WRIGHT-PATTERSON, OH
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WHAT NATO OPERATION (1993-1995) ATTEMPTED TO IMPOSE A NO-FLY ZONE OVER BOSNIA IN AN EFFORT TO LIMIT THE WAR?
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OPERATION DENY FLIGHT
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WHAT 1995 OPERATION HELD BOSNIAN SERBS ACCOUNTABLE FOR ATTAKS AGAINS THE UN FORCES AND SERAVEJO WITH AN INCESSANT AIR CAMPAIGN, STRIKING TARGETS THROUGHT THE COUNTRY?
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OPERATION DELIBERATE FORCE
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WHICH OPERATION MARKED THE FIRST CAMPAIGN IN AERIAL WARFARE WHERE PRECISION MUNITIONS OUTWIEGHED CONVENTIONAL BOMBS?
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OPERATION DELIBERATE FORCE
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AFTER WARRING BOSNIAN PARTIES SIGNED PEACE ACCORDS IN PARIS IN DECEMBER 1995, WHAT OPERATION REPLACED OPEARATION DENY FLIGHT, WITH A MISSION TO IMPLEMENT THE AGREEMENT IN 1996?
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OPERATION JOINT ENDEAVOR
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THE SERBIAN GOVERNMENT'S OPPRESSION OF THE ___ POPULATION IN KOSOVO, LED BY PRESIDENT SLOBODON MILOSEVIC, TURNED TO VIOLENCE AND MASS KILLINGS.
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THNIC ALBANIAN
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WHAT NATO OPERATION BEGAN IN MARCH 1999 TO FORCE SERBIA TO ACCEPT NATAO TERMS FOR ENDING THE CONFLICT AND AVOID THE ETHNIC CLEANSING THAT TOOK PLACE IN BOSNIA?
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OPERATION ALLIED FORCES
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NATO HOPED MILOSEVIC WOULD CAPITULATE AFTER JUST A FEW DAYS OS AIR STRIKES, BUT IT TOOK ____ DAYS AND MORE THATN 3,8000 SORTIES TO END THE AIR WAR OVER SERBIA.
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78 DAYS
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THE AIR FORCE RESPONDED QUICKLY TO THE FOUR UNPRECENDENTED ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN NEW YORK CITY, WESTERN ___ AND WASHINGTON DC ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.
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PENNSYLVANIA
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WHEN DID FIGHTER AIRCRAFTS BEGIN TO FLY COMBAT AIR PATROLS OVER US SKIES IN SUPPORT OF OPERATION NOLE EAGLE?
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11 SPETEMBER 2001
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WHAT PERCENTAGE OF PILOTS FLYING NOBLE EAGLER MISSIONS BELONGED TO THE ANG?
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MORE THAN 80%
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AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 2001, WHAT OPERATION TOOK THE FIGHT TO THE NATION'S ENEMIES OVERSEAS, MOST NOTABLY IN AFGHANISTAN?
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OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM
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AIRCRAFT FROM WHICH THREE COUNTRIES BEGAN A SUSTAINED CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORIST TARGETS IN AFGHANISTAN DURING OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM?
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THE US , GREAT BRITIAN, AND FRANCE
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SET IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN ON MARCH 2002, IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE SMALL-UNIT FIRFIGHTS OF THE WAS AGAINST TERRORISM. WHAT DID THE MEN WHO FOUGHT THERE CALL IT?
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THE BATTLE OF ROBERT'S RIDGE
Term
IN OPERATION ANACONDA, SPECIAL OPERATORS FROM  ALL THESE FORCES  HELPED SECURE THEMOUNTAIN TOP AND INFLICTE SERIOUS LOSSES ON AL-QUEDA.
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  • US AIR FORCE, US ARMY, AND US NAVY
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WAHT MEDIC WAS AWARDED THE AIR FORCE CROSS AFTER HE LOST HIS LIFE WHILE SAVING 10 OTHERS DURING OPERATION ANACONDA?
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SRA JASON D CUNNINGHAM
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WHO WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE AIR FORCE CROSS FOR SAVING THE LIVES OF HIS ENTIRE RESCUE TEAM BY ENGAGING AND DESTROYING THE FIRST ENEMY POSITION AND ADVANCING TO THE SECOND DURING THE 17 HOUR BATTLE OF OPERATION ANACONDA?
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TSGT JOHN A CHAPMAN
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ON 17 MARCH 2003, WHAT ULTIMATUM DID PRESIDENT W. BUSH GIVE SADDAM HUSSEIN AND HIS SONS?
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LEAVE IRAQ WITHIN 48 HOURS OF FACE CONFLICT
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OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM OFFICIALLY BEGAN ON MARCH 2003. WHEN DID IT OFFICIALLY END?
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1 MAY 2003
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HOW MANY TROOPS DEPLOYED TO THE GULF REGION FOR OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, FORMING A COALITION OF MULTINATIONAL TROOPS?
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MORE THAN 300,000
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MORE CRUISE MISSILES WERE FIRED ON THE FIRST DAY  OF OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM THAN DURING THE ENTIRE FIRST GULF WAR. WAHT CONCEPT WAS THE BATTLE PLAN OF OPEATION IRAQI FREEDOM BASED?
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"SHOCK AND AWE"
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WHAT SLOERD THE COALITION'S INITIAL ADVANCE DURING OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM?
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HEAVY SAND STORMS
Term
A COMBAT CONTROLLER WHO EARNED SEVEN MEDALS DURING HIS CAREER, ____ WAS THE FIRST AIRMAN KILLED IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.
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SSGR SCOTT SATHER
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WHAT TOWN, THE KEY TO DELIVERING HUMANITARIAN AID, DID BRITISH FORCES TAKE DURING OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM?
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BASHRA
Term
WHEN DID US COMMANDERS DECLARE THAT SADDAM'S REGIME NO LONGER CONTROLLED BAGHDAD?
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9 APRIL 2003
Term
WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON ON THE 55 MOST WANTED LEADERS LIST ISSUED BY THE COALITION DURING OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM TO SURRENDER?
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IRAQ'S SCIENCE ADVISOR
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PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCED VICTORY IN IRAQ ON 2 MAY 2003 IN A SPEECH ABOURD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WHOSE ASSESMNET DID HE BASE THIS ANNOUNCMENT ON?
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GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS
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IN WW1, AIR POWER PLAYED A MINOR ROLE. WHAT ROLE DID IT PLAY IN KOSOVO?
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THE ONLY ROLE
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