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    Operation Reflex was a Cold War operation that placed medium bombers of Strategic Air Command (SAC) on nuclear alert at European and North African stations...
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    bombers on 90-day TDY (Temporary Duty) deployments until 1959, SAC Operation Reflex deployments from 1959 until 1965, from 1966 United States Air Forces...
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  • Duran Reflex (group), Russian band Re-Flex, British band Reflex Records ReFLEX, wireless paging protocol Borland Reflex, database management Reflex (building...
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    medium bomber squadron it deployed to stand alert at forward bases in Operation Reflex. After equipping with Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses stood nuclear alert...
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    bombardment groups on temporary duty in England and Morocco as part of Operation Reflex. During the Berlin Airlift, a single Globemaster (42-65414) arrived...
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    digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state...
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    B-47 deployments changed from 90-day temporary deployments to 30-day Operation Reflex alerts, in which the aircraft did little flying, but were held at a...
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  • (SAC) (Reflex) and added support of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Operation Chrome Dome missions, which continued after Operation Reflex operations ended...
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    The photic sneeze reflex (also known as ACHOO syndrome, a contrived acronym for Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst) is an inherited...
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    bomber base. The USAF planned to use Bruntingthorpe as an advanced Operation Reflex base for forward deployment of the new Boeing B-47 Stratojet medium...
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    Air Command (SAC) inventory, with the base intended to support SAC Operation Reflex missions. This was the longest runway in Europe until the construction...
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    Operation Castle. A B-47E was then flown in the 1956 test, Operation Redwing. Operation Reflex missions proved the long-endurance (eighteen hours) and long...
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    The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the...
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    A bass reflex system (also known as a ported, vented box or reflex port) is a type of loudspeaker enclosure that uses a port (hole) or vent cut into the...
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    if the B-36s were armed with nuclear weapons. Several temporary SAC Operation Reflex deployments of Boeing B-47 Stratoet bombers were also made to bases...
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  • postings were replaced by a new system of overseas deployments called Operation Reflex. A permanent SAC presence was established, with a SAC airbase group...
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    and Turkey. This program, in effect from 1957 to 1966, was known as Operation Reflex with Sixteenth Air Force (16AF), a SAC numbered air force permanently...
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    Tanker Wing and Support Elements deployed to Upper Heyford during Operation Reflex deployments from United States bases. In addition to its assigned units...
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    squadron operated from a forward base in the middle Atlantic to support Operation Reflex deployments and maintained readiness to support Emergency War Order...
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    The ITL MARS (multi-purpose aiming reflex sight) is a gun sight that combines two sighting devices, a reflex sight and a laser sight, as well as a backup...
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    frequently deployed to SAC bases, primarily in the United Kingdom on Operation Reflex deployments where it came under control of the 7th Air Division. The...
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    propeller-driven bombers and received the B-47E Stratojet. Participating in SAC Operation Reflex deployments with the B-47, the 44th deployed at Sidi Slimane AB, French...
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    at the close of World War II. In the early 1950s, SAC developed an "Operation Reflex"[dubious – discuss] strategy between its southern bases and Morocco...
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    Stratojet. The squadron frequently deployed to support bombers under Operation Reflex until it was inactivated in 1962 as Strategic Air Command converted...
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  • and Microsoft Windows. A Wii port, developed by Treyarch and subtitled Reflex Edition, was released in 2009. The story takes place in the year of 2011...
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  • Department". HISTORY. Retrieved 2020-03-19. Carazo Garcia, Manuel (2020). Operation Reflex. The B47 in action. Spain: Punto Rojo Libros. ISBN 9788418574009. Retrieved...
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    strengthen their wings for low level operations. The squadron also participated in Operation Reflex alert operations. Reflex placed Stratojets and Boeing KC-97s...
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    Stratojet from SAC in the mid-1960s, the need for Strategic Air Command Operation Reflex European bases diminished and the Sixteenth Air Force (16AF) was turned...
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    a wing several times in the early 1950s, three times to England on Operation Reflex deployments and once to Guam, the wing also deployed individual squadrons...
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    main medium bomber throughout the 1950s. The wing participated in SAC Operation Reflex deployments to North Africa and England. Beginning in 1958, the B-47...
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