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  • History Quiz - week of June 29

    Last week’s question and answer: In 1959, remote tracking stations for satellite operations opened in Hawaii, California, New Hampshire and other locations. The next expansion of the network occurred in 1961, when three additional sites opened. Name one of those sites. Click the link to find out if you're right!

  • History Quiz - week of June 22

    Last week’s question and answer: The Consolidated Space Operations Center turnover from Air Force Systems Command to Air Force Space Command occurred incrementally over several years. What associated turnover occurred on October 1, 1987? Click the link to find out!

  • History quiz -- week of June 8

    Last week’s question and answer: Before being acquired by the Air Force as a satellite control site, New Boston Air Force Station fulfilled what role from 1942? From its 1942 opening until the end of World War II, New Boston served as a bombing and gunnery range for U.S. military aircrews.

  • History Quiz - week of May 18

    Oct. 27, 2009 marked what milestone for the 21st Space Operations Squadron? This date marked the formal occupancy of the Ellison Onizuka Satellite Operations Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the new home for the 21st Space Operations Squadron.

  • History Quiz - week of April 27

    Last week’s question and answer: What two medical establishments were assigned to the 50th Tactical Fighter (now Space) Wing from 1953-1991? The two primary medical establishments assigned to the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing between 1953 and 1991 were the 50th Tactical Hospital (formerly 50th Medical Group) and the USAF Hospital, Hahn, Germany (later renamed 50th Tactical Fighter Wing Hospital).

  • History Quiz - week of April 20

    Last week's question and answer - What was the first jet fighter operated by crews of the 50th Fighter (now Operations) Group? The first jet fighter operated by the 50th Fighter Group was the F-84 Thunderjet. The group operated this aircraft from 1949-1950.

  • History Quiz – Week of April 13

    This week’s question: What was the first jet fighter operated by crews of the 50th Fighter (now Operations) Group?

  • History Quiz – week of March 30

    This week’s question: This pilot had 8 MiG victories in the Korean War. In 1953 he was assigned to the 50th Fighter-Bomber Wing, 81st Fighter-Bomber Squadron, and played a primary role in moving the wing’s F-86 aircraft to Hahn AB, Germany. Later he led the 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron in combat operations in Vietnam. He was shot down in his F-105D Thunderchief and spent seven years as a prisoner of war. He is one of only four airmen to receive multiple awards of the Air Force Cross.

  • History Quiz - week of Dec. 29

    On December 30, 1981, the wing received its first F-16A Fighting Falcon, delivered to which squadron?
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