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Note from AFA President -- Wash Metro Accident, Senate hearing
June 27, 2009 -- AFA Members, Congressional staffers, civic leaders, DOCA members, this week's news has highlighted a major catastrophe in Washington DC. One metro train rammed into another, killing 9 and injuring 80. Among those killed was...More
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Note from AFA President -- Martin, Skantze, and Brokaw
June 20, 2009 -- AFA Members, Congressional Staffers, Civic Leaders, and DOCA members, I have three "op-eds" to bring to your attention...More
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Note from AFA President -- Lee-Enfield Rifles and 3 Quotes
June 13, 2009 -- AFA Members, Congressional Staffers, Civic Leaders, and DOCA members, one of you sent me a remarkable piece on Lee-Enfield Rifles, then secured the author's permission for us to put it on our website. It is most readable and is what I call stream-of-consciousness writing...More
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Note from AFA President -- Posture Statement, Unfunded Priorities List
AFA Members, Congressional staffers, Civic leaders and DOCA members, for the past few weeks, Secretary of the Air Force Donely and Chief of Staff, Gen Schwartz have been testifying before the various committees on the Hill...More
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AFA Celebrates Independence Day
July 2, 2009 -- Arlington, VA – The Air Force Association (AFA) today released the following statement:
“Our great nation is blessed with a truly remarkable heritage of freedom. Since our nation’s founding, generations of patriots have fought, served and sacrificed to maintain our freedom and help secure better lives for millions around the world. We owe them all a tremendous debt of gratitude...More...
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AFA Announces Awards to Outstanding Civil Air Patrol, JROTC and ROTC Cadets
July 1, 2009 -- Arlington, VA – The Air Force Association (AFA) today announced the 2009 awards Civil Air Patrol squadrons, ROTC detachments, and Junior ROTC high school units....More...
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AFA Announces Spring 2009 Pitsenbarger Awards to 245 Graduates
June 16, 2009 -- Arlington, VA – The Air Force Association announced a total of $98,000 awarded to new graduates of the 2009 Spring Community College of the Air Force (CCAF). Known as AFA’s Pitsenbarger Awards, each of the 245 recipients receive a $400 check and a certificate of achievement. AFA’s Pitsenbarger awards will again be distributed to qualified Airmen CCAF graduates at the Fall graduation ceremonies...More...
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This Week In Airpower History
| | Wednesday, June 29, 1927 -- AAC Lts. Albert Hegenberger (navigator) and Lester Maitland (pilot) make the first flight from the US mainland to Hawaii in a Fokker C-2 named "Bird of Paradise."
| | | Friday, June 30, 1961 -- Gen. Curtis E. LeMay becomes Air Force Chief of Staff. Read “ The Airman Who Shook the World,” Air Force Magazine, January 1987
| | | Monday, July 01, 1946 -- Air Force Magazine becomes the official journal of the Air Force Association.
| | | Friday, July 02, 1926 -- US Army Air Service becomes US Army Air Corps. On the same day, Congress establishes the Distinguished Flying Cross.
| | | Friday, July 02, 1943 -- AAF Lt. Charles Hall shoots down a German FW-190 over Sicily, becoming the first black US flier to down an Axis airplane.
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