April 10, 1994. In NATO's first air attacks on ground positions
 since the Alliance was founded forty-five years previously, two Air
 Force F-16C fighters destroy a Bosnian Serb Army command post with
 Mk. 82 500-pound bombs.
     May 3, 1994. Col. Silas Johnson, Jr., 93d Bomb Wing commander,
 flies the last B-52G to the "Boneyard" at Davis Monthan AFB, Ariz.,
 thus removing this series from the active inventory.
     June 3, 1994. Maj. Andre A. Gerner and company pilot John D.
 Burns set a recognized record for STOL aircraft for greatest mass
 carried to a height of 2,000 meters (44,088 pounds) in a McDonnell
 Douglas C-17A Globemaster III at Edwards AFB, Calif. The record
 still stands.
     June 24, 1994. The F-117 Stealth aircraft is officially named
 "Nighthawk."
     June 29, 1994. First visit of a US space shuttle to a space
 station, the Russian Mir.
     July 1994. The 184th Bomb Group, Kansas Air National Guard,
 becomes the first Guard unit to be equipped with the B-1B.
     August 2, 1994. During a global power mission to Kuwait, two
 B-52s from the 2d Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, La., set a world record
 while circumnavigating the Earth. Flying 47.2 hours, the bombers set
 a world record not only for the longest B-52 flight but also for the
 longest jet aircraft flight in history. Dropping fifty-four bombs
 over a range located twenty-five miles from the Iraqi border, the
 aircraft demonstrate their global reach and power on the fourth
 anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
     August 4, 1994. Two B-1Bs (one from the 384th Bomb Group and one
 from the 184th Bomb Group of the Kansas Air National Guard) complete
 a nineteen-hour nonstop global power mission to Hawaii. This is the
 first time the 184th, the first ANG unit to receive the B-1B, flies
 a global power mission.
     October 1994. USAF responds to hostile movements in the Persian
 Gulf area by Iraq's Saddam Hussein by deploying 122 combat aircraft
 to augment the sixty-seven already in place. Four bombers fly nonstop
 from bases in the US to deliver 55,000 pounds of bombs on target, on
 time, within audible range of Saddam's forces. The Iraqis withdraw
 northward. Secretary of Defense William Perry later says, "The Air
 Force really has deterred a war."
     October 14, 1994. The first-ever operational C-17 mission lands
 in the Persian Gulf area, delivering a five-ton "rolling command
 post," five vehicles, and assorted supplies for the Army. The 17.2-
 hour flight was the longest mission to date for a C-17.
     October 26, 1994. Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman becomes Air Force
 Chief of Staff.
     October 26, 1994. CMSgt. David J. Campanale becomes Chief Master
 Sergeant of the Air Force.
     November 21-23, 1994. In Project Sapphire, Air Mobility Command
 C-5s transport more than 1,300 pounds of highly enriched uranium
 from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan to Dover AFB, Del., to
 protect this large supply of nuclear materials from terrorists,
 smugglers, and unfriendly governments. From Dover, the uranium is
 taken to Oak Ridge, Tenn., to await conversion to commercial nuclear
 fuel.
     February 7, 1995. A crew from Whiteman AFB, Mo., makes the first
 drop of live bombs from the Northrop Grumman B-2A stealth bomber. The
 two Mk. 84 bombs were dropped as part of the B-2's first Red Flag
 exercise at Nellis AFB, Nev.
     March 15, 1995. Lockheed Corp. and Martin Marietta complete their
 merger that was announced the previous August 29. The newly created
 Lockheed Martin Corp., with $23 billion in annual sales, becomes the
 world's largest aerospace and defense contractor.
     April 7, 1995. 2d Lt. Kelly Flinn, the first woman to join a
 bomber crew, begins student pilot training with the 11th Bomb Squad-
 ron, 2d Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, La.
     April 27, 1995. The Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite
 constellation is declared to have acheived full operational capabil-
 ity (FOC) by Air Force Space Command.
     June 1, 1995. Lockheed Martin and Boeing roll out the stealthy
 DarkStar Tier III Minus high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle in
 ceremonies at Palmdale, Calif.
     June 2, 1995. Air Force F-16 pilot Capt. Scott F. O'Grady is shot
 down over northwest Bosnia on an Operation Deny Flight mission.
 Rescued after an eight-day ordeal during which he subsisted on bugs
 and rainwater, Captain O'Grady returns home to a hero's welcome.
     June 3, 1995. Two 7th Wing (Dyess AFB, Tex.) B-1Bs land after
 completing a historic thirty-six-hour, thirteen-minute, 20,100-mile,
 nonstop round-the-world flight. This global power mission, called
 Coronet Bat, requires six air refuelings using assets from ACC, AMC,
 USAFE, PACAF, US Central Command, ANG, and AFRES. To mirror a real-
 istic training scenario for wartime taskings, Coronet Bat incorpo-
 rates bombing runs over the Pachino Range, Italy; the Torishima
 Range, near Kadena AB, Japan; and the Utah Test and Training Range.
     June 6, 1995. Astronaut Norman Thagard, flying on the Russian
 Mir space station, sets the US record for spaceflight endurance,
 passing eighty-four days, one hour, and seventeen minutes in space.
 The previous US record-holders were the three astronauts on the third
 Skylab mission in 1974.
     June 22, 1995. Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall an-
 nounces that Beech Aircraft has been selected to develop and deliver
 the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) for the Air Force
 and Navy. The new trainer, a modified version of the Swiss Pilatus
 PC-9 turboprop traininer, will replace the USAF's Cessna T-37Bs and
 the Navy's Beech T-34Cs.
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