Word: eglin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave-taking from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took...
...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...
...Dart, sent a drone aircraft to the ground in blazing bits. As a Tactical Air Command flight of F-105s sped overhead, a simulated nuclear bomb was exploded in a miniature fireball and nonradioactive mushroom cloud. As the waves of noise, heat and blast rolled across Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, Commander in Chief John Kennedy grinned from a rocking chair. The U.S. Air Force was putting on a show for the boss-and the boss seemed impressed...
...says an Air Force general, "the attitude is 'So what?' But in a presidential show, well, it's for keeps." Adds one of his Pentagon colleagues: "They're just as tough as combat operations, and sometimes men get hurt or killed." In preparing for the Eglin show, one did. Captain Charles G. Lamb Jr., 31, of Indianapolis, died when his F-10s disintegrated at 2.000 ft. as he practiced a supersonic bomb pullout with a force...
...second dust-catching rocket launched from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., carried instruments that reported micrometeorite impacts and sent the information to earth by radio. The tapes of this test will not be fully interpreted for some time, but they have already roughly confirmed the existence of the dust layer. When the analysis is finished, Dr. Soberman hopes to have a better explanation of the mysterious micrometeorite belt that hangs like a faint cloud at the outer fringe of the atmosphere...