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18th Space Surveillance Squadron(228 total words in this text)(3718 Reads)  Constituted 18th Surveillance Squadron, and activated, on 1 Nov 1966. Organized on 1 Jan 1967. Inactivated on 1 Oct 1975. Activated on 1 Feb 1990. Redesignated 18th Space Surveillance Squadron on 15 May 1992. Assignments Air Defense Command, 1 Nov 1966; 73d Aerospace Surveillance Wing, 1 Jan 1967; Fourteenth Aerospace Force, 30 Apr 1971?1 Oct 1975. 1st Space Wing, 1 Feb 1990; 73d Space Surveillance (later, 73d Space) Group, 1 Jul 1991; 21st Operations Group, 26 Apr 1995?. Stations Edwards AFB, CA, 1 Jan 1967?1 Oct 1975. Peterson AFB, CO, 1 Feb 1990; Edwards AFB, CA, 1 Nov 1994?. Aircraft None. Operations Operated Baker-Nunn satellite tracking cameras, Jan 1967?Oct 1975, and the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System, Feb 1990?. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: 8 Jul 1970?7 Jul 1971. Emblem Per fess Azure and Celeste, the base gridlined in perspective Sable a bald eagle volant Proper grasping a flight symbol in its talons Gray below in chief a mullet of four Or; all within a diminished bordure of the like. MOTTO: SEMPER VIGILANS IN SINE ALTO?Ever Vigilant in the High Frontier. Approved on 18 Jul 1995; replaced emblem approved on 29 Aug 1968 (KE 31365). |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
