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Air Force Magazine
Daily Report
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This Month in Air Force Magazine
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The President's Corner
Notes from AFA's President
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Mitchell Institute event
February 22, 2012 -- AFA members, Congressional staff members, civic leaders, DOCA members, last Friday we held a Mitchell Institute event at AFA headquarters. Todd Harrison from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments...More
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Book recommendations, CP Newsletter
January 28, 2012 -- AFA members, Congressional staff members, civic leaders, DOCA members, I have two new books to recommend to you...More
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Loh, Fogleman, op-eds
January 25, 2012 -- AFA members, Congressional staff members, civic leaders, DOCA members, I have several op-eds to bring to your attention...More
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Defense "Strategy"
January 6, 2012 -- AFA members, Congressional staff members, civic leaders, DOCA members, yesterday the President, Secretary of Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (then later the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense Policy, and Vice Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff) rolled out the new defense strategy. You can find it at...More
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Previous Notes from the President
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This Week In Airpower History
| | Monday, February 18, 1918 -- The first American fighter unit proper, the 95th Aero Squadron, arrives in France.
| | | Wednesday, February 19, 1936 -- Airpower advocate Billy Mitchell dies in New York City at the age of 57. He is buried in Milwaukee, Wis.
| | | Sunday, February 20, 1944 -- The first mission of "Big Week -- six days of strikes by Eighth Air Force (based in England) and Fifteenth Air Force (based in Italy) against German aircraft plants -- is flown.
| | | Thursday, February 20, 1997 -- The Global Hawk long-range reconnaissance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle rolls out at the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical plant in San Diego.
| | | Wednesday, February 21, 2001 -- A Predator unmanned aerial vehicle -- up to then strictly a surveillance platform—hits a stationary Army tank with a live Hellfire-C missile at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nev.
| | | Thursday, February 22, 1912 -- Jules Vedrines pushes the recognized absolute speed record past the 100 mph barrier, as he hits 100.22 mph in a Deperdussin racer at Pau, France.
| | | Tuesday, February 22, 1921 -- American transcontinental airmail service begins. The route between San Francisco and Mineola, N.Y., is flown in 14 segments by pilots flying US-built de Havilland DH-4s. The first flight, in bad weather, takes over 33 hours.
| | | Sunday, February 22, 1942 -- First American air headquarters in Europe in World War II, US Army Bomber Command, is established in England, with Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commanding.
| | | Friday, February 23, 1912 -- First official recognition of the rating "Military Aviator" appears in War Department Bulletin No. 2.
| | | Saturday, February 23, 1918 -- The 2nd Balloon Company moves to the front lines near Toul, France -- the first of 37 American balloon companies that will see action -- three at Chateau Thierry, 15 at St. Mihiel, and 19 in the Meuse Argonne area -- in World War I.
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