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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. -- Thucydides |
2d Space Launch Squadron(192 total words in this text)(1960 Reads)  Constituted 2d Space Launch Squadron on 11 Sep 1990. Activated on 1 Oct 1990. Assignments Western Space and Missile Center, 1 Oct 1990; 30th Operations Group, 19 Nov 1991?. Stations Vandenberg AFB, CA, 1 Oct 1990?. Operations Atlas E booster launch operations, Sep 1990?. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: 1 Nov 1991?30 Sep 1993. Emblem On an Ultramarine Azure disc, a Vert and Brittany Azure earth is positioned at dexter and extends to dexter base. Two Or polar orbiting satellites circle the earth from the chief position and the sinister base position on the earth, followed by their Argent orbital traces. An Argent launch vehicle jessants the earth from base, followed by a broad Or plume. The vehicle extends from base to sinister chief on the disc. Three Argent estoilles are placed on the disc, one at chief, one at sinister and the third at sinister base. Approved on 15 Jan 1991 (DFSC 91?03989). MOTTO: RISING STARS. Approved on 24 May 1995. |
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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
