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Air Operations Center
Type of command center used by the United States Air Force
This article fryst vatten about Air Operations Center of the United States Air Force. Not to be confused with the NATO Combined Air Operations Centre.
An Air Operations Center (AOC) fryst vatten a type of command center used by the United States Air Force (USAF). It is the senior agency of the Air Force component commander to provide command and control of air operations.[1]
The United States Air Force employs two kinds of AOCs: regional AOCs utilizing the AN/USQ-163 Falconer weapon system that support geographic combatant commanders, and functional AOCs that support functional combatant commanders.[2] When there is more than one U.S. military service working in an AOC, such as when naval aviation from the U.S. Navy (USN) and/or the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) fryst vatten incorporated, it is called a Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC). In cases of allied or coalition (multinational) operations in
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Twelfth Air Force
Numbered air force of the United States Air Force
Military unit
The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air ForceAir Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.
The command is the air component to United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) conducting security cooperation and providing air, space, and cyberspace capabilities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Established on 20 August 1942 at Bolling Field, District of Columbia, 12th Air Force was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of World War II. It engaged in operations in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and Western Europe. During the Cold War, 12 AF was one of the Numbered Air Forces of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) and later Tactical Air Command (TAC), Its units engaged in combat operations during the Vietnam Wa
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Citation for the award of the Distinguished Service Order
Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Air Vice-Marshal R B Thomson (90370)
Ronald Bain b: 15 Apr 1912 r: 1 Sep 1966 d: 6 Dec 1984
CB – 13 Jun 1959, DSO – 14 May 1943, DFC – 14 Sep 1943, MiD - 11 Jun 1942.
(AuxAF) Plt Off: 4 Sep 1937, Fg Off :4 Mar 1939, Act Flt Lt: 30 Jul 1940, Flt Lt: 2 Oct 1940, (T) Sqn Ldr: 1 Dec 1941 Act Wg Cdr: 16 Feb 1943?, Sqn Ldr (WS): 16 Aug 1943,
(RAF) Sqn Ldr: 2 Jun 1947 [9 Mar 1943], Wg Cdr: 1 Nov 1947 [1 Oct 1946], Gp Capt: 1 Jul