Word: forcemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Less than 36 hours later, about 800 Air Forcemen and their families crowded into the Dyess base theater. Lieut. James Edward Obenauf, 23, one eye bandaged and the other kept closed against the bright lights, stepped out on the platform with his wife. He had performed far above and beyond the call of duty. And General Tom Power, boss of the Strategic Air Command, pinned a medal on Obie's chest. It was the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...still so tight that comparatively few details have been given out about the new supersonic planes. North American's F-100 is only one of the new jet breed. To date, the U.S. has earmarked some $6 billion for a complete arsenal of century-series jets which Air Forcemen like to call the "city-savers...
...early budget hacking. One of Twining's first big jobs was to join the new Joint Chiefs of Staff in a "New Look" at U.S. defense needs last September. He found that the best deal he could get out of the New Look was 127 wings. Air Forcemen drew breath for a great scream of outrage, but Twining passed the word: no complaints. The scream was stifled; Air Force sources let out not a whimper...
...they might, Air Forcemen could not spot Bed Check's home base, thought it probably was a small field in North Korea, perhaps even a dried-up river bed. They also failed to pick him up on their elaborate radar screen, because he slithered in and around Korean, hills at such low altitude...
Muroc is the U.S. Air Force's secret test base. Its ships, as un-nautical Air Forcemen insist on calling aircraft, are the latest planes, from the big B-36 to Buck Rogerish craft that are still marked "Top Secret." Muroc is the world's finest landing field. A deliberately overloaded bomber can labor for miles across the lake before it tries the air. An experimental jet fighter of unproved design can be tested and wrung out, with worlds of room for landing if there is a structural or power-plant failure. Muroc's miles & miles...