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Offutt Air Force Base / ˈ ɒ f ʌ t / (IATA: OFF, ICAO: KOFF, FAA LID: OFF) is a U.S. Air Force base south of Omaha, adjacent to Bellevue in Sarpy County, Nebraska.It is the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the 557th Weather Wing, and the 55th Wing (55 WG) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), the latter serving as the host unit.
In 1991 Congress incorporated the U.S. Naval Home (opened in 1834) and U. S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home (founded in 1851) into an independent establishment of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government named the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) Agency.
First Officer Rudolph Przydzial "Rudy" Price Jr., age 42, had been a Delta employee since 1970. [4]: 92 Delta captains who flew with Price described him as an "above average first officer" who possessed "excellent knowledge" of the TriStar. [4]: 7 Price had logged 6,500 flight hours, including 1,200 in the TriStar.
The F-106 was the ultimate development of the USAF's 1954 interceptor program of the early 1950s. [4] The initial winner of this competition had been the F-102 Delta Dagger, but early versions of this aircraft had demonstrated extremely poor performance, being limited to flying at subsonic speeds and relatively low altitudes. [5]
Lawrence Edward Page [2] [3] [4] (born March 26, 1973) is an American businessman and computer scientist best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin. [2] [5]Page was chief executive officer of Google from 1997 until August 2001 when he stepped down in favor of Eric Schmidt, and then again from April 2011 until July 2015 when he became CEO of its newly formed parent organization Alphabet ...
SharePoint is a collection of enterprise content management and knowledge management tools developed by Microsoft.Launched in 2001, [6] it was initially bundled with Windows Server as Windows SharePoint Server, then renamed to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and then finally renamed to SharePoint.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
Delta Force's founder Charles Beckwith in 1980 Delta Force bodyguards in civilian clothing providing close protection to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, 1991. Delta Force was created in 1977 after numerous well-publicized terrorist incidents led the U.S. government to develop a full-time counter-terrorism unit.