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More than one general has redeemed faulty dispositions and won fame by a suitably glorious death. -- James Lawton Stokesbury |
2d Space Warning Squadron(165 total words in this text)(3356 Reads)  Constituted 2d Space Communications Squadron on 1 May 1992. Activated on 15 May 1992. Redesignated 2d Space Warning Squadron on 1 May 1993. Assignments 21st Operations Group, 15 May 1992; 21st Space Wing, 21 Jul 1995-. Stations Buckley ANGB, CO, 15 May 1992-. Aircraft None. Operations Operated ground station set up to control the Defense Support Program, a space-based surveillance system configured to detect and report ballistic missile launches, space launches, and nuclear detonations, 1992 to present. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. None. Emblem Azure, an eagle stooping Proper above a demi-globe issuant from sinister base Sable, land mass Vert, and therefrom a missile of the second bendwise trailing an arc of exhaust Or; all within a diminished bordure of the second. MOTTO: ILS NE PASSERONT PAS-They Shall Not Pass. Approved on 2 Mar 1995. |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
