Airman of the 1960s-into the 70’s Cold War
Airman of the 70’s Cold War:
He’s working with the Army in the development of the Helicopter and the use of it in the Air-Assault role, and how that applies to the Air Force, I’m not exactly sure, perhaps with training how to be an Air Crewman Gunner or Cre-Chief, the maintenance, and how critical it is on an any, and all aircraft, even more so when used in foul weather, at sea, or on the coast, breaking in an aircraft, and how different altitudes effect the aircraft. He may have been working with aerial weapons development, or Air Force operations, rescuing down airmen, and whatnot, field and base operations.
Air Force Female, of the 70’s Cold War:
USAF Colonel, Summer Dress Whet-Mess Jacket:
This dining-out jacket is just rare, rare for summer dress whites, but as a dinner jacket even more, one would have to think of a retirement party or receiving long-awaited decoration…or like, meeting the President or something with the joint chiefs of staff. Needless to say, I don’t believe these dress white uniforms like this have existed in Air Force use for some time, but I’ve been wrong before. Missing are his trousers, shirt, etc. And his decorations, likely a miniature medals bar, would be nice to have on there.
“New” USAF Lt.Col SAC. Fatigue Shirt:
Most of the uniforms in this section I’ll admit to guessing at to some extent, I have tried to put them together in such a way as to tell some of the Air Force Story, and I know little of it.
“New” Staff Sergeant, 554th Opperations Support Wing, USAF Uni-sex 80s feild jacket:
I assume part of the matainance, but could be aircrew, and might be a female crew chief of one of the aircraft in the wing.
“NEW” Leutnant Coronal, 363rd Fighter Wing / Tactic Air:
*With Prior Service with the 19th Tac Air Sq.
Leutnant Colonel, 434th Tactical Fighter Wing:
Established as 434 Troop Carrier Wing, Medium, and activated in the Reserve, on 1 Jul 1949. Ordered to Active Service on 1 May 1951. Inactivated on 1 Feb 1953. Activated in the Reserve on 1 Feb 1953. Ordered to Active Service on 28 Oct 1962. Relieved from Active Duty on 28 Nov 1962. Redesignated 434 Tactical Airlift Wing on 1 Jul 1967. Inactivated on 31 Dec 1969. Redesignated 434 Special Operations Wing on 12 Jan 1971. Activated in the Reserve on 15 Jan 1971. Redesignated: 434 Tactical Fighter Wing on 1 Oct 1973; 434 Air Refueling Wing, Heavy on 1 Jul 1987; 434 Air Refueling Wing on 1 Feb 1992; 434 Wing on 1 Aug 1992; 434 Air Refueling Wing on 1 Oct 1994.
Assignments. Tenth Air Force, 1 Jul 1949; Tactical Air Command, 2 May 1951; Eighteenth Air Force, 1 Jun 1951-1 Feb 1953. 2 Air Reserve District, 1 Feb 1953; Tenth Air Force, 15 Apr 1953; Fifth Air Force Reserve Region, 1 Sep 1960; Twelfth Air Force, 28 Oct 1962; Fifth Air Force Reserve Region, 28 Nov 1962-31 Dec 1969. Central Air Force Reserve Region, 15 Jan 1971; Tenth Air Force, 8 Oct 1976; Twenty-second Air Force, 1 Oct 1993; Fourth Air Force, 1 Apr 1997-.
“NEW” Colonel, Air Combat Command: Story to come.
“NEW” and already updated! Leutnant, Military Airlift Command:
“NEW” 2nd Lieutenant, 552nd AWAC Wing:
USAF 2nd Lieutenant, 552nd AWAC Wing, who works inside one, or so that's what I figure. It does not have a helmet unfortunately, but in this case, may just have worn headphones, but then I guess at 40,000 feet, one would want a helmet and be hooked up to air, even if the aircraft was pressurized, in case something went wrong, or one had to get out. The name tag looks phony and it is, they don’t come with them, so I added that to complete the flight suit, I would think early 70s era, and he may have worked with strategic missiles at some point in time with the early warning system. I think in this he worked likely in the air-control of some section over the united states like, or overseas? like forward air controllers, detecting incoming ICBM missile(s) & Early Warning Systems of the time, electronic warfare, and jamming stations in the aircraft, and depending on the actual assignment that might be applied to the official name tag, as well as an ID tag somewhere.
“NEW” Major, Space Command. Blue Jump Suit:
I’m entertaining the thought of a missile project pre-astronaut test pilot of early space command, other than that I’ll see what I can come up with for a story of this blue jump-suit. Again this is one that ay be a bit of a reach, but it looks right to me. However, the Space Systems Command began the military space organization of the U.S. Military, and they began with the Western Development Division (WDD), on the 1st of April 1954. They came under the Air-Research and Development Command, in the management of the country’s Ballistic Missle program and its operation. But the actual patch comes from a time of 2001 apparently, (I thought it was funny having the Star-Treck Insignia in the center) this doesn’t really jive with the blue suit and insignia either so I cannot confirm this is right. I may remove the Space-Patch.
“NEW” Senior Airman, USAF. Air Intelligence Agency, Early 1970s:
Master Tech, Missile-Man, 1970s SAC:
The Master-Tech, working with the ICBM Missle Sites. I think with the green overalls, he would be assigned to the outdoors maintenance or missile man/mechanic or testing part of the operations.
“NEW” A Senior Airman, Missile-Man of 1969-70, Matainance Coat:
“NEW” 74th ADAMS, Later 1970s? The unit my uncle had served with and proudly portrayed the title on the license plate of his car, though I never knew the story, nor when, so no, I have no picture to go with the uniform there was a bit of guess and by-golly done with this uniform. So as per the norm, the name comes from the availability of the tape. I don’t even know if he ever wore fatigues! But all these missiles needed mechanics and maintenance people, even operators could have had fatigue uniforms, I don’t know- but it’s a tribute nonetheless, I’ll work on this story in the future, and see if I can do it some justice.
