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Ghost2518 Adjutant User is Offline Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 25119 Karma: 6 applaud / smite 2718 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:36 am    Post subject: Happy B-day USAFE · Quote Air Force News | January 19, 2007 RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- United States Air Forces in Europe celebrates its 65th anniversary as the oldest, continuously active Air Force major command. USAFE began Jan. 19, 1942, when the War Department established Headquarters 8th Air Force, and the command continues its forward presence in Europe and Africa -- from delivering bombs in World War II to delivering humanitarian supplies to Berlin in 1948 and 1949, from fighting the Cold War to fighting today's war on terrorism. Command Airmen deployed for operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, flew missions into Sarajevo in the longest humanitarian airlift in history, then converted to combat missions over Kosovo several years later. Since 9/11, USAFE members have supported operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom with airlift, tankers, fighters and people -- today, 70 aircraft and 2,000 Airmen fight the war on terrorism. Last summer, USAFE assisted 14,000 Lebanon evacuees during the Hezbollah-Israel conflict. "For more than half a century, USAFE Airmen have taken the fight to America's and our allies' enemies. All Airmen and civilians assigned to USAFE today, like those who came before, should take pride in the fact that, every day, their service to our nation adds to this command's proud legacy," said Gen. William T. Hobbins, the USAFE commander. http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,122429,00.html _________________ XO "Special Teams" The Ghost with the most “IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU DIE RATHER, HOW YOU LIVED.”
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afsp90_02 Chairman Joint Chiefs User is Offline Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 11253 Karma: 14 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 28875 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:39 am    Post subject: · Quote Looks like Ramstein AB & F.E. Warren AFB are going to have to fight this one out! I know I was always told FE was the oldest... http://www.warren.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4696 _________________ Administrator Forum Chairman Joint Chiefs [Staff CO] Commanding Officer[CO] Forum awards comity Moderator Staff Company staff officer M.S.T. Bravo CO.
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