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Dig out your old Basic Training Flight Photo.

This is from http://www.lackland.af.mil/info/flightphoto.asp website for Lackland Air Force Base

"The BMT Flight Photograph Project is a concentrated effort to collect approximately 119,000 of USAF Basic Training flight photographs from the inception of the USAF in 1947 to the present. The collection includes photos from all bases that conducted Air Force basic training including Lackland AFB, Texas, Sampson AFB, New York, Parks AFB, California, Keesler Field, Mississippi, Amarillo and Sheppard AFB, Texas. This collection will also include Air Force basic training that was conducted overseas." 

I have submitted mine, 3724th BMTS, Aug, 1967.  Buzzard69

A heads up to Jim Thiles for bring this to our attention.

Would you like to add a link to the www.510fs.org website? Please follow these few simple rules.

Cari Amici (Dear Friends),

Benvenuti (welcome) to Aviano Air Base, Italy, home of the 31st Fighter Wing. I am the 510th's Web Master and I have been given the pleasure of being your virtual sponsor for your upcoming PCS move. You'll be assigned to the 510th Fighter Squadron, one of two F-16 equipped squadrons stationed here. My goal is to make your move as easy, enjoyable and hassle-free as possible. By now I am sure you've heard many things about Aviano from all kinds of sources and I'll bet you're as confused as I was before I got here and found out for myself. Through this letter, I hope to give you some "first-hand" information that will help allay your fears. Also, check out the Family Support Center's information package on Aviano.

Airmen deployed from the 510th Fighter Squadron took part in the decisive Battle of An Najaf where more than 200 enemy insurgents were killed and 100 gunmen captured near An Najaf Jan. 28.

Final Flight serves as a Memorial for any 509th, 510th, 511th or 405th Member who has died after their call to Duty. If you know of a member who should be added to this Roster, please submit their information to any of the website contacts, and we'll be sure to add them.

The following information should be provided as accurately as possible:

Member Name
Last Rank Held
Dates Served with Any of the Squadrons
Squadron Served With
Date of Death

During World War 1, American volunteers from all parts of the country filled the newly formed flying squadrons. Some were wealthy scions attending colleges such as Yale and Harvard who quit in mid-term to join the war. In one squadron, a wealthy lieutenant ordered medallions struck in solid bronze and presented them to his unit. One young pilot placed the medallion in a small leather pouch that he wore about his neck.

405th FIGHTER GROUP DEDICATION
Hampton Air & Space Museum
September 12th & 13th, 2007

We’re here to commemorate the 405th Fighter Group at Langley Field. After the 1952 activation at Godman, KY., the move was made to Langley, and the following year nuclear training began in the Republic F-84F fighter, with a new tactical atomic weapon, the Mark-VII bomb. In 1955, the 405th attained ‘Combat readiness,’ while introducing a new 'Special Weapons Delivery' tactic called ‘Low Altitude Bombing System. In ‘LABS’ the Immelmann maneuver was flown, off the deck, to a high-angle release, 20 degrees past the vertical.

405th FIGHTER GROUP DEDICATION
Langley AFB Dedication
September 13th, 2007

The 405th Fighter Group was stationed at Langley Field from 1953 to ‘59. As organized, under Tactical Air Command for the Cold War, the 405th accelerated training in Republic F-84F fighters and the Mark-VII nuclear bomb. Combat Readiness was achieved in 1955 as the Group’ fighters initiated in-flight refueling, and the Low Altitude Bombing System. ‘LABS,’ was low-level targeting to an Immelmann climb, and a near-vertical bomb-toss, conceived to lessen fighter damage from atomic blast.