air force

     

An air force, in some countries calle an army air corps in the past, is in the broadest sense, is the national military or armed service that primarily conducts aerial warfare. The term "air force" may also refer to a tactical air force or numbered air force, which is an operational formation within a national air force.

Trivia about air force

  • This branch uses more fuel than the rest of the military combined
  • "Aim high" & get a job in this branch of the military & you might have to memorize their slogan "Aim High"
  • Go to www.foai.af.mil to file a Freedom of Information Act request with this organization
  • The youngest branch of the U.S. military, it was created soon after World War II
  • In 1993 Sheila Widnall was flying high as the first woman secretary of this military branch
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks by a fighter jet in Las Vegas, Nevada.) The Thunderbirds are the elite demonstration team of this armed service, and were created just 6 years after the service came into being
  • A branch of the military that was part of the army before it became independent in 1947
  • In 1949 Henry H. Arnold became the first general of this branch of the armed forces
  • "The Right Stuff" guy Chuck Yeager after 1947
  • Became its own branch under the National Security Act of 1947
  • A branch of the U.S. military:"Aim High"
  • Ellison Onizuka