2010 - BEYOND GENERATION
WASHINGTON – Over the course of the year we’ve looked at highlights from every decade of the Air Force’s 70 year history. In this final edition, we celebrate the achievements of the Air Force from 2010 and into the future.
2000 - 2010 GENERATION
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center towers in New York and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Heroic passengers rushed hijackers in the fourth aircraft and crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
1990 - 2000 GENERATION
The onset of Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s remains one of the seminal events in Air Force history.
1980 - 1990 GENERATION
WASHINGTON – Since its inception, the Air Force has consistently broken barriers as an element of the finest joint warfighting team on the planet, and its Airmen have refined its mission through innovation and teamwork.
1970 - 1980 GENERATION
March 17, 1971: Jane Leslie Holley became the first woman commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program.
1960 - 1970 GENERATION
Though the U.S. Air Force mission in Vietnam was initially training and advising the South Vietnamese air force, U.S. involvement began to escalate in 1964. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered Operation Rolling Thunder with the intent of destroying the North Vietnamese supply network and air defense system.
1947 - 1960 GENERATION
WASHINGTON – Since its inception, the Air Force has consistently broken barriers as an element of the finest joint warfighting team on the planet, and its Airmen have refined its mission through innovation and teamwork.
