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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave... -- Patrick Henry |
3d Space Surveillance Squadron(127 total words in this text)(2220 Reads)  Constituted 3d Surveillance Squadron on 10 Aug 1990. Redesignated 3d Space Surveillance Squadron, and activated, on 1 Oct 1992. Assignments 73d Space Group, 1 Oct 1992; 21st Operations Group, 26 Apr 1995?. Stations Misawa AB, Japan, 1 Oct 1992?. Aircraft None. Operations Operated passive sensors for the Deep Space Tracking System, Oct 1992?. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. None. Emblem Sable, a temple dog salient Or, resting its front paws on a globe Azure gridlined Argent, within two orbit rings saltirewise of the last; all within a diminished border of the third. MOTTO: UNEQUALED EXCELLENCE. Approved on 27 Jul 1993. |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
