"He initially flew the A-7D fighter in Tactical Air Command, and subsequently was part of the initial cadre to introduce the A-10 into U.S. Air Forces in Europe," his biography says. "From USAFE ...

After your training is complete, you are one of the finest pilots the United States Armed Forces has to offer. Now, you have been called upon to defend U.S. interests in Egypt and in the Far East.

In a recent exercise involving U.S. Army Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense ...

and the offensive force became the RAF Second Tactical Air Force. The Air Defence of Great Britain was later renamed Fighter Command. It was finally disbanded in 1968.