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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered] -- Julius Caesar |
13th Space Warning Squadron(226 total words in this text)(2397 Reads)  Constituted 13th Missile Warning Squadron, and activated, on 1 Nov 1966. Organized on 1 Jan 1967. Redesignated 13th Space Warning Squadron on 15 May 1992. Assignments Air Defense Command, 1 Nov 1966; 71st Missile Warning Wing, 1 Jan 1967; Fourteenth Aerospace Force, 30 Apr 1971; Alaskan ADCOM Region, 1 Oct 1976; 47th Air Division, 1 Dec 1979; 1st Space Wing, 1 May 1983; 21st Operations Group, 15 May 1992-. Stations Clear Missile Early Warning Station (later, Clear AFS; Clear AS), AK, 1 Jan 1967-. Aircraft None. Operations Operated radar to detect a ballistic missile attack against the US and southern Canada and tracked space objects in earth orbit, 1967 to present. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1 Jun 1968-31 May 1970; 1 Jul 1971- 30 Jun 1973; 1 May 1983-30 Apr 1984. Emblem On a disc, per fess indented Azure and Or, issuant in base a demi-globe of the first gridlines Argent, and in chief a bugle horn of the second suspended by a strap Gules edged in Gold, all within a diminished bordure of the like. MOTTO: SENTINEL OF SPACE. Approved on 11 Aug 1967 (KE 26460). |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
