In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C. R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from 'glimmers of hope' like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam
2001
229 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Aircraft , Air Transportation , Pilots , Aerial warfare , Jet fighters , Air force operations , Weapons , Nato , Military history , Air force facilities , Air traffic controllers , Southeast asia , Vietnam war , Guided weapons , Instructors , Travel , Flight , Warfare , Air force , Forward areas , C. R. Anderegg
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