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    Loring Air Force Base (IATA: LIZ, ICAO: KLIZ) was a United States Air Force installation in northeastern Maine, near Limestone and Caribou in Aroostook...
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  • The Loring Air Force Base Alert Area is a former alert area for B-52 Stratofortress aircraft of the 42d Bombardment Wing situated at the former Loring Air...
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    Pituffik Space Base (/biːduːˈfiːk/ bee-doo-FEEK; Greenlandic: [pitufːik]; IATA: THU, ICAO: BGTL), formerly Thule Air Base (/ˈtuːliː/), is a United States...
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    New Mexico Loring Air Force Base, Maine McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington Wendover Air Force Base, Utah Those bases...
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    Mole hole (category United States Air Force)
    Bay (Nunavut, Canada) "Loring Air Force Base, Alert Area" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record. Loring Air Force Base: Library of Congress. Retrieved...
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    1951 until its absorption into Loring Air Force Base in 1962. It was located in Limestone, Maine, adjacent to Loring. Between 1951 and 1962 Caribou was...
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    their bomber counterparts. At the Alert Area at Loring Air Force Base, the area consisted of a forty acre high-security area located to the southeast corner...
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    Hellenic Air Force (HAF; Greek: Πολεμική Αεροπορία, romanized: Polemikí Aeroporía, lit. 'Military Aviation', sometimes abbreviated as ΠΑ) is the air force of...
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    The 42nd Air Base Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air University of Air Education and Training Command. It is stationed at Maxwell-Gunter...
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    Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota – 5th Bomb Wing Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana – 2nd Bomb Wing (active Air Force) and 307th Bomb Wing (Air Force Reserve...
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    Christmas tree (aviation) (category United States Air Force)
    A Christmas tree was a type of alert area constructed by the United States Air Force (USAF) for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War. Oftentimes...
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    AGM-28 Hound Dog (category Cold War air-to-surface missiles of the United States)
    Loring Military Heritage Center, on former Loring AFB, Limestone, Maine. AGM-28 S/N 61-2148 located at the Museum of Aviation, Robins Air Force Base,...
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    Missile Battery MS-40, Farmington, Dakota County, MN" Nebraska Lincoln Air Force Base Online Museum New Jersey Nike Missile Sites in New Jersey New Mexico...
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    8th Fighter Wing (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
    Air Force. It is the host unit at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea and is assigned to Seventh Air Force. Seventh Air Force falls under Pacific Air Forces...
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    42d Bombardment Wing, Loring AFB, Maine (April 1953 – September 1956) 69th, 70th and 75th Bombardment Squadrons 15th Air Force 92d Bombardment Wing –...
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    Project Nike (category Cold War surface-to-air missiles of the United States)
    Hartford Defense Area. CT Homestead–Miami Defense Area, FL Kansas City Defense Area, KS-MO Lincoln AFB Defense Area, NE Loring AFB Defense Area, ME Los Angeles...
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    Air Force and Air National Guard units well into the 1970s. George W. Bush, later President of the United States, flew the F-102 as part of his Air National...
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    Minot Air Force Base. It then resumed its alert commitment at Otis, and also provided an alert detachment at Loring AFB. The 101st was the first ANG air defense...
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    407th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 42nd Bombardment Wing at Loring Air Force Base, Maine...
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    9th Bomb Squadron (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
    the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 7th Operations Group, Global Strike Command, stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The squadron...
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    The 7th Air Division served the United States Air Force between early 1944 and early 1992, earning an Air Force Outstanding Unit Award and a service streamer...
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  • Fresh Approach – Test of proposed Strategic Air Command aircraft ground alert at Mountain Home Air Force Base in September 1957, intended to solve problems...
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    taking off from Loring Air Force Base in Maine, killing all four crew members on board. The plane belonged to a unit at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida...
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    number 53-0384) from the 93rd Bombardment Wing (Heavy) out of Castle Air Force Base (AFB), Merced County, California, crashed on a functional flight test...
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    Mackay Trophy (category Awards and decorations of the United States Air Force)
    is awarded yearly by the United States Air Force for the "most meritorious flight of the year" by an Air Force person, persons, or organization. The trophy...
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    336th Fighter Squadron (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
    Rocketeers, is a United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the 4th Operations Group and stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. The 336th...
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    and three days later, the 2nd Brigade went into an assembly area at Bolling Air Force Base, where they eventually departed back to Fort Bragg sometime...
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  • No. 1 Wing RAAF (category Military units and formations of the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II)
    No. 1 Wing was an Australian Flying Corps (AFC) and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) wing active during World War I and World War II. The wing was established...
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    training and air refueling operations on a global scale based at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. 416th BW crews and aircraft deployed to the Pacific during...
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    authors list (link) Morison, Samuel Loring (September 2014). "U.S. Battle Force Aviation Changes 2013–14, Part A: CARRIER AIR WINGS & ASSIGNMENTS CVW/DOI: 20...
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