TEST FOR STAFF (FREEPDG ) CHAPTER 1, AIR FORCE HERITAGE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|GUARANTEED SUCCESS

They achieved the first powered, sustained, controlled airplane flight in 1903 Wright Brothers He was an airpower visionary who the saw airplane dominating warfare and called for an air force independent of the United States Army. His outspoken views and criticism of superiors caused President Coolidge to personally order his court-martial. Billy Mitchell In July 1942, Major General George C. Kenney assumed command of the Fifth Air Force. What ways did he boost the commands combat power *locally developed 150 gallon drop tanks *.50 caliber machine guns mounted in A-20 and B-25 aircraft *Parachutes attached to fragmentation bombs and low-level "skip" bombing techniques After Vietnam, the Air Force changed from strategic bombing? to pinpoint bombing focused on enemy chokepoints with economy of force and no collateral damage Most decorated flight nurse in the Army Air Forces Captain Lillian K. Keil Commander of the WWII Tuskegee Airmen/First Black Officer to hold tank of Major General Benjamin O. Davis Jr Organized Army's first operational unit, the 1st Aero Squadron, and commanded the squadron during the Mexican Punitive Expedition in . Major General Benjamin D. "Benny" Foulois Architect of Air Force ballistic missile and military space programs (437L, antisatellite system) General Bernard A. Schriever Known for B-25 raid on Tokyo, launched from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet General James "Jimmy" Doolittle The operation to defeat the enemy calling themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant is Operation Inherent Resolve Air Force Blues introduced only after Large stocks of Army clothing were used up Protected Libyan citizens from Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime Odyssey Dawn The first Chief of Staff of the Air Force was General Carl A. Spaatz Japan surrendered 14 August 1945 due to Atomic weapons, declaration of war by the S.U, and a defeated army, navy and air force. William H. Turner supervised the supply of Chinese and American forces across the Himalayas and developed many maintenance and cargo-handling techniques that later proved invaluable during The Berlin Airlift What prompted Operation Restore Hope II, the airlifting of 1700 U.S. troops and 3100 tons of cargo into Mogadishu between 5 and 13 October 1993 losses sustained on 3 and 4 October in Mogadishu First director of the AF Enlisted Heritage Hall on Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex CMSGT Wayne Fisk In regards to Cuba, JFK took the less dramatic step of Imposing a naval blockade of the island U.S agree to remove missiles from Turkey First extensive, broad based employment of space support capabilities The Gulf War Achieved the first powered, sustained, controlled airplane flight in 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright First POW recipient CMSGT Paul AIrey flew 44 missions with the 95th Bomb Group, died 15 Mar 1945 Sergeant Sandy Sanchez What made the Soviets dispose their nuclear weapons from Cuba? the strategic and tactical power of the USAF coupled with the will and ability to use it Longest and Bloodiest air campaign Combined Bomber Offensive Nato-led Resolute Support focused on Afghan security forces stability Operation Restore Hope unraveled again due to factional fighting within the country WWI, air power played a minor role, in _______________ it played the only role Kosovo driving force behind Checkmate, AF think tank for wartime scenarios Colonel Richard "Moody" Suter April 1980, attempt to rescue Americans from the US embassy in Iran Operation Ricebowl Credited with saving lives on Takur Ghar and awarded Air Force Cross TSGT John A Chapman Court Martialed by president Coolidge Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the dictator of Cuba. In an attempt to install a pro-us government in Cuba JFK authorized the bay of pigs invasion Strategic Air Commander who made SAC world's most powerful nuclear force General Curtis E. LeMay AF vision of weather satellites known as the Defense Satellite Applications Program Operation Allied Force was a response to The Serbian government oppressing its ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo Credited with finding the AF aggressor squadron, and the Einsiedlehof Air Station Colonel Richard "Moody" Suter operation which attacked communist forces in Laos was known as Operation Barrel Roll As a pararescueman, he earned the AF Cross for his actions in Marzak Afghanistan. Risked own life to save 10 gravely wounded Americans SrA Jason D Cunningham radar technician awarded the AF Cross for actions in Laos CMGST Richard L. Etchberger