Sierra Hotel - Flying Air Force Fightera in the Decade After Vietnam (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This publicationvdescribes how the Air Force fighter force evolved in the decade after the end of the Vietnam War.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. Major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War is reviewed