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411th Flight Test Squadron(187 total words in this text)(1806 Reads)  Designated as the 6511th Test Squadron, and activated, on 10 Mar 1989. Redesignated: 411th Test Squadron on 2 Oct 1992; 411th Flight Test Squadron on 1 Mar 1994. Assignments 6510th (later, 412th Test) Wing, 10 Mar 1989; 412th Operations Group, 1 Oct 1993?. Stations Edwards AFB, CA, 10 Mar 1989?. Aircraft YF?22, 1989?; YF?23, 1989?1991. Operations Performed flight testing and evaluation to select the Air Force?s advanced tactical fighter of the future. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. None. Emblem Azure, issued from base, a wizard face of the like, eyes Gules, eyebrows, robe, and cap Sable, the robe charged with five mullets and the cap semy of six mullets Argent. Overall, a crystal ball of the last emitting to dexter two lightning flashes bendwise Or. To sinister, a fusil of the second trailing an arced contrail bendwise sinister Yellow inflamed Red; all within a diminished bordure of the first. MOTTO: ASSESSING THE FUTURE. Approved on 2 Mar 1990 (DFSC 91?00140). |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
