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3rd Special Operations Squadron, the Glossary

The 3rd Special Operations Squadron flies MQ-9 Reaper unmanned combat aerial vehicles or "drones" and is currently located at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. The squadron is under the command of the Air Force Special Operations Command. The 3rd SOS is the first Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) squadron within the AFSOC.^[1]

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Military units and formations in Nevada
Special operations squadrons of the United States Air Force

"V" device

A "V" device is a metal capital letter "V" with serifs which, when worn on certain decorations awarded by the United States Armed Forces, distinguishes a decoration awarded for combat valor or heroism from the same decoration being awarded for a member's actions under circumstances other than combat.

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Aeronca L-3

The Aeronca L-3 group of observation and liaison aircraft were used by the United States Army Air Corps in World War II.

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Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award

The Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award (ASOUA) is one of the unit awards of the United States Air Force and United States Space Force.

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Air Force Special Operations Command

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), headquartered at Hurlburt Field, Florida, is the special operations component of the United States Air Force.

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Alachua Army Air Field

Alachua Army Airfield, was a World War II United States Army Air Force airfield, located northeast of Gainesville, Florida.

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Anti-aircraft warfare

Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).

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Army Air Forces Tactical Center

The Army Air Forces Tactical Center was a major command and military training organization of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

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Bell P-39 Airacobra

The Bell P-39 Airacobra is a fighter produced by Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

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Blythe Airport

Blythe Airport is seven miles west of Blythe, in Riverside County, California, United States.

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Boeing B-47 Stratojet

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft.

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Brooks City-Base

Brooks is a mixed-use development that was founded on the former Brooks Air Force Base when the United States Air Force closed the facility in 2002.

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Camp O'Donnell

Camp O'Donnell is a current military base and former United States military reservation in the Philippines located on Luzon island in the municipality of Capas in Tarlac.

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Cannon Air Force Base

Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base, located approximately southwest of Clovis, New Mexico.

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Chailly-en-Brie

Chailly-en-Brie (literally Chailly in Brie) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Coincy Aerodrome

Coincy Aerodrome was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Colombey-les-Belles Aerodrome

Colombey-les-Belles Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France used by the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force.

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Corps area

A corps area was a geographically-based organizational structure (military district) of the United States Army used to accomplish administrative, training, and tactical tasks from 1920 to 1942.

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Curtiss O-52 Owl

The Curtiss O-52 Owl was an observation aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps before and during World War II.

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Desert Training Center

The Desert Training Center (DTC), also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA), was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert, largely in Southern California and Western Arizona in 1942.

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Douglas A-20 Havoc

The Douglas A-20 Havoc (company designation DB-7) is an American light bomber, attack aircraft, night intruder, night fighter, and reconnaissance aircraft of World War II.

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Douglas AC-47 Spooky

The Douglas AC-47 ("Puff, the Magic Dragon") was the first in a series of fixed-wing gunships developed by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War.

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Ferme de Moras Aerodrome

Ferme de Moras Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Fort Bliss

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas.

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Fort Sam Houston

Fort Sam Houston is a U.S. Army post in San Antonio, Texas.

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Francheville Aerodrome

Francheville Aerodrome was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Gallantry Cross (South Vietnam)

The Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross also known as the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross or Vietnam Cross of Gallantry (Anh-Dũng Bội-Tinh) is a military decoration of the former Government of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam).

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Garden City, New York

Garden City is a village located in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.

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General Atomics MQ-1 Predator

The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator (often referred to as the Predator drone) is an American remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) built by General Atomics that was used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper

The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (sometimes called Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, one component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS)) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations, developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF).

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I Corps Observation Group

The I Corps Observation Group was a United States Army Air Service unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I as part of the Air Service, First United States Army.

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I Tactical Air Division

The I Tactical Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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Igarka

Igarka (Ига́рка) is a town in Turukhansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located north of the Arctic Circle.

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II Air Support Command

The II Air Support Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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III Reconnaissance Command

The III Reconnaissance Command is a disbanded United States Army Air Forces unit.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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John Levitow

John Lee Levitow (November 1, 1945 – November 8, 2000) was a United States Air Force (USAF) loadmaster who received the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism during wartime.

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Julvécourt Aerodrome

Julvécourt Aerodrome was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Kelly Field

Kelly Field (formerly Kelly Air Force Base) is a Joint-Use facility located in San Antonio, Texas.

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Keystone Army Air Field

Keystone Army Airfield, was a World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield, located north-northwest of Keystone Heights, Florida.

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Langley Air Force Base

Langley Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Hampton, Virginia, adjacent to Newport News.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lizy-sur-Ourcq

Lizy-sur-Ourcq (literally Lizy on Ourcq) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Meritorious Unit Award (U.S. Air and Space Forces)

The Meritorious Unit Award or MUA is a mid level unit award of the United States Air Force and United States Space Force.

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Nellis Air Force Base

Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada.

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Nha Trang Air Base

Nha Trang Airport (also known as Camp McDermott Airfield and Long Van Airfield) was a French Air Force, Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF), United States Air Force (USAF) and Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) (Khong Quan Nhan Dan Viet Nam) military airfield used during the Vietnam War.

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North American O-47

The North American O-47 is an American observation fixed-wing aircraft monoplane designed in the mid-1930s and used by the United States Army Air Corps during the Second World War.

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Operation Enduring Freedom

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism.

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Orlando Executive Airport

Orlando Executive Airport is a public airport three miles (6 km) east of downtown Orlando, in Orange County, Florida.

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Orlando Fighter Wing

The Orlando Fighter Wing was a wing of the United States Army Air Forces.

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Ourches Aerodrome

Ourches Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Pacific Air Forces

The Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force and is also the air component command of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM).

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Piper J-3 Cub

The Piper J-3 Cub is an American light aircraft that was built between 1938 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft.

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Pituffik Space Base

Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, is the United States Space Force's northernmost base, and the northernmost installation of the U.S. Armed Forces, located north of the Arctic Circle and from the North Pole on the northwest coast of Greenland.

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Presidential Unit Citation (United States)

The Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), originally called the Distinguished Unit Citation, is awarded to units of the uniformed services of the United States, and those of allied countries, for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941 (the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of American involvement in World War II).

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Red Flag – Alaska

Red Flag-Alaska is a realistic, ten-day air combat United States Air Force (USAF) training exercise held up to four times a year.

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Remicourt Aerodrome

Remicourt Aerodrome was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base

Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base is an Ohio Air National Guard installation at Rickenbacker International Airport near Lockbourne in southern Franklin County.

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Saints Aerodrome

Saints Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Second Air Force

The Second Air Force (2 AF; 2d Air Force in 1942) is a USAF numbered air force responsible for conducting basic military and technical training for Air Force enlisted members and non-flying officers.

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South Vietnam Air Force

The South Vietnam Air Force, officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF; Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, KLVNCH; Force aérienne vietnamienne, FAVN) (sometimes referred to as the Vietnam Air Force or VNAF), was the aerial branch of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the official military of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975.

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Special operations

Special operations or special ops are military activities conducted, according to NATO, by "specially designated, organized, selected, trained, and equipped forces using unconventional techniques and modes of employment." Special operations may include reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, and counterterrorism, and are typically conducted by small groups of highly trained personnel, emphasizing sufficiency, stealth, speed, and tactical coordination, commonly known as special forces.

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Squadron (aviation)

A squadron in an air force, or naval or army aviation service, is a unit comprising a number of military aircraft and their aircrews, usually of the same type, typically with 12 to 24 aircraft, sometimes divided into three or four flights, depending on aircraft type and air force.

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Stinson L-1 Vigilant

The Stinson L-1 Vigilant (company designation Model 74) is an American liaison aircraft designed by the Stinson Aircraft Company of Wayne, Michigan and manufactured at the Vultee-Stinson factory in Nashville, Tennessee (in August 1940 Stinson became a division of Vultee Aircraft Corporation).

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Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces from 1946 to 1992.

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Taylorcraft L-2

The Taylorcraft L-2 Grasshopper is an American observation and liaison aircraft built by Taylorcraft for the United States Army Air Forces in World War II.

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Tet Offensive

The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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Unmanned combat aerial vehicle

An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, fighter drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and/or bombs in hardpoints for drone strikes.

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Vavincourt Aerodrome

Vavincourt Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.

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War on terror

The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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10th Tactical Reconnaissance Group

The 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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12th Observation Group

The 12th Reconnaissance Group is a disbanded United States Army unit.

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14th Flying Training Wing

The 14th Flying Training Wing is a wing of the United States Air Force based out of Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi.

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14th Weapons Squadron

The 14th Weapons Squadron is a United States Air Force unit.

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1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo

The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines' Luzon Volcanic Arc was the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, behind only the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska.

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1st Bombardment Wing

The 1st Bombardment Wing is a disbanded United States Army Air Force unit.

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1st Cavalry Division (United States)

The 1st Cavalry Division ("First Team") is a combined arms division and is one of the most decorated combat divisions of the United States Army.

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26th Information Operations Wing

The 26th Information Operations Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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2nd Infantry Division (United States)

The 2nd Infantry Division (2ID, 2nd ID) ("Indianhead") is a formation of the United States Army.

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3rd Operations Group

The 3rd Operations Group is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force 3rd Wing.

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3rd Wing

The 3rd Wing is a unit of the United States Air Force, assigned to the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Eleventh Air Force.

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432nd Wing

The 432nd Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command at Creech Air Force Base near Indian Springs, Nevada. 3rd Special Operations Squadron and 432nd Wing are military units and formations in Nevada.

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7th Operations Group

The 7th Operations Group is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force 7th Bomb Wing, stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Special_Operations_Squadron

Also known as 1st Photographic Section, 3 SOS, 3 Special Operations Squadron, 3d Air Commando Squadron, 3d Observation Squadron, 3d Special Operations Squadron, 3d Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, 3d Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, 3d Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 3nd Special Operations Squadron, 3rd Air Commando Squadron, 3rd Observation Squadron, 3rd SOS, 3rd Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, 3rd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Photographic Section No. 1.

, Pacific Air Forces, Piper J-3 Cub, Pituffik Space Base, Presidential Unit Citation (United States), Red Flag – Alaska, Remicourt Aerodrome, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Saints Aerodrome, Second Air Force, South Vietnam Air Force, Special operations, Squadron (aviation), Stinson L-1 Vigilant, Strategic Air Command, Taylorcraft L-2, Tet Offensive, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Unmanned combat aerial vehicle, Vavincourt Aerodrome, Vietnam War, War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War on terror, World War I, World War II, 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 12th Observation Group, 14th Flying Training Wing, 14th Weapons Squadron, 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, 1st Bombardment Wing, 1st Cavalry Division (United States), 26th Information Operations Wing, 2nd Infantry Division (United States), 3rd Operations Group, 3rd Wing, 432nd Wing, 7th Operations Group.

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Military units and formations in Nevada

Special operations squadrons of the United States Air Force

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