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| {{Short description|Air service branch of the U.S. military}} | | {{Short description|Air service branch of the U.S. military}} |
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| {{Infobox military unit
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| | unit_name = United States Air Force
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| [[File:Mark of the United States Air Force.svg|frameless|200px]]
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| |Emblem of the United States Air Force<ref>{{Cite web |title=AF Branding & Trademark Licensing |url= https://www.trademark.af.mil/About-Us/Other-Properties/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704034936/http://www.trademark.af.mil/About-Us/Other-Properties/ |archive-date=4 July 2018 |access-date=5 April 2019 |website= trademark.af.mil}}</ref>
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| |[[File:US Air Force Logo Solid Colour.svg|frameless]]|[[United States Air Force Symbol]]}}
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| | start_date = {{ubl|18 September 1947|({{Age in years and months|1947|09|18}})<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Security Act Sections 207-209 |url=http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197560/national-security-act-sections-207-209/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205125941/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil:80/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197560/national-security-act-sections-207-209/#expand |archive-date=5 December 2023 |website=[[National Museum of the United States Air Force]] |publisher=U.S. Air Force |quote=The USAF began operating as a separate service...on Sept. 18, 1947.}}</ref>}}
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| | country = {{Flagu|United States}}
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| | type = [[Air force]]
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| | role = [[Aerial warfare]]
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| | size = {{ubl|321,848 active duty personnel{{efn|FY23 Projected End Strength}}<ref name="DoD FY24 Budget Request" /> <br />105,104 [[Air National Guard]] personnel{{efn|FY23 Projected End Strength}}<ref name="DoD FY24 Budget Request" /> <br />68,927 [[Air Force Reserve]] personnel{{efn|FY23 Projected End Strength}}<ref name="DoD FY24 Budget Request" /> <br />495,879 total uniformed personnel <br />147,879 [[civil service|civilians]]{{efn|This reflects all [[Department of the Air Force]] civilian employees, the Dept of the Air Force manages the civilian employee programs for both the Air Force and Space Force. This is not inclusive of [[defense contractors|contract]] personnel.}}<ref name="AFPC Civilians">{{Cite web |date=31 December 2023 |title=Civilian Demographics December 2023 |url=https://www.afpc.af.mil/Portals/70/documents/DEMOGRAPHICS/CivDemographicSnapshot_202312.OWP.pdf?ver=ezDvSWZzZvZJ3JKbYjGecw%3d%3d |access-date=9 January 2024 |website=Air Force Personnel Center}}</ref> <br />approx. 65,000 [[Auxiliaries|Auxiliarists]]<ref name="CAP" />
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| |approx. 5,500 combat aircraft<ref name=“CSIS2021”>{{Cite journal |last=Cancian |first=Mark |date=December 3, 2020 |title=U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021: Air Force |url=https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-military-forces-fy-2021-air-force |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=Center for Strategic and International Studies}}</ref>
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| |approx. 400 ICBMs<ref name="Deployed ICBMs">{{Cite web |date=20 March 2017 |title=Air Force Arsenal of Land-Based Nukes Shrinking as Planned |url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NUCLEAR_CUTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319130420/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NUCLEAR_CUTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT |archive-date=19 March 2017 |access-date=20 March 2017 |website=Associated Press}}</ref>}}
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| | command_structure = [[United States Armed Forces]] <br />[[United States Department of the Air Force|Department of the Air Force]]
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| | garrison = [[The Pentagon]] <br />[[Arlington County, Virginia]], U.S.
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| | garrison_label = Headquarters
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| | motto = ''"Aim High ... Fly-Fight-Win"''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aim High ... Fly-Fight-Win to be Air Force motto USAF |url=https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/261909/aim-high-fly-fight-win-to-be-air-force-motto/ |url-status=live |date= 12 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109121819/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=34807778346 |archive-date=9 January 2018 |access-date=19 October 2010 |publisher=United States Air Force}}</ref> <br />''"Integrity first, Service before self, Excellence in all we do"''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ventura |url= http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/maxwell/mp11.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829050722/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/maxwell/mp11.pdf |archive-date=29 August 2017 |access-date=5 April 2019}}</ref>
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| | colors = [[Ultramarine]] blue, [[Gold (color)#Yellow|Golden yellow]]<ref name="AFcolors">{{Cite web |date=24 March 2007 |title=The Air Force Flag |url=http://www.jbsa.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070324-002.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902192925/http://www.jbsa.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070324-002.pdf |archive-date=2 September 2013 |access-date=7 August 2017 |website=Air Force Historical Research Agency |publisher=United States Air Force}}</ref> <br />{{color box|#00308F}} {{color box|#ffdf00}}
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| | colors_label = Colors
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| | march = "[[The U.S. Air Force (song)|The U.S. Air Force]]" {{audio|The U.S. Air Force song.oga|Play}}
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| | anniversaries = 18 September<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cfr.org/blog/happy-75th-birthday-united-states-air-force|title=Happy 75th Birthday to the United States Air Force|last=Lindsay|first=James|date=September 16, 2022|website=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=August 8, 2023}}</ref>
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| | battles = {{collapsible list
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| |title = ''See list''
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| |{{ubl|[[File:Streamer MS.PNG|200px]]|[[Pancho Villa Expedition|Mexican Expedition]] (As [[Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps]])|[[File:Streamer WWI V.PNG|200px]]|[[World War I]] (As [[Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps]] and [[United States Army Air Service|Army Air Service]])|[[File:World War II - American Campaign Streamer (Plain).png|200px]]|[[File:Streamer APC.PNG|200px]]|[[File:European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal streamer.png|200px]]|[[World War II]] (As [[U.S. Army Air Forces|USAAF]])|[[File:Korean Service Medal - Streamer.png|200px]]|[[Korean War]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[1958 Lebanon crisis|Lebanon Crisis]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Second Taiwan Strait Crisis]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Second Taiwan Strait Crisis|Quemoy and Matsu Islands]]||[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[War in Vietnam (1959–1963)|Vietnam Assistance]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Congo Crisis]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Berlin Crisis of 1961|Berlin Crisis]]|[[File:Vietnam Service Streamer vector.svg|200px]]|[[Vietnam War]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Laotian Civil War]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Cuban Missile Crisis]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Operation Dragon Rouge|Congo – Operation Dragon Rouge]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Dominican Civil War]] – Operation Power Pack|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969)|Korean DMZ Conflict]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Cambodian Campaign]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Communist insurgency in Thailand]]|[[Operation Eagle Pull|Cambodia – Operation Eagle Pull]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Operation Frequent Wind|Vietnam – Operation Frequent Wind]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Mayaguez incident|Mayaguez Operation]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Invasion of Grenada|Grenada – Operation Urgent Fury]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Lebanese Civil War]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Operation Earnest Will|Persian Gulf – Operation Earnest Will]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[1986 United States bombing of Libya|Libya – Operation El Dorado Canyon]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[United States invasion of Panama|Panama – Operation Just Cause]]|[[File:Streamer SAS.PNG|200px]]|[[Persian Gulf War|Southwest Asia Conflict]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Somali Civil War]]|[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[Operation Uphold Democracy|Haiti – Operation Uphold Democracy]]|[[File:Streamer KC.PNG|200px]] [[Kosovo War|Kosovo Campaign]]|[[File:Streamer AFGCS.PNG|200px]]|[[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|Afghanistan Campaign]]|[[File:Streamer gwotE.PNG|200px]]|[[War on Terror|Global War on Terrorism]]|[[File:Iraq Campaign streamer (USMC).svg|200px]]|[[Iraq War|Iraq Campaign]]|[[Operation Inherent Resolve]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Air Force Instruction 34-1201 |date=9 June 2017 |url= http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_a1/publication/afi34-1201/afi34-1201.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023011230/http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_a1/publication/afi34-1201/afi34-1201.pdf |archive-date=23 October 2017 |access-date=22 October 2017}}</ref>}}
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| | equipment = [[List of equipment of the United States Air Force]]
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| | website = {{ubl|{{URL|www.af.mil|af.mil}}|{{URL|www.airforce.com|airforce.com}}}}
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| <!-- Commanders -->
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| | commander1 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of the President of the United States.svg|size=25px}} [[President of the United States|President]] [[Joe Biden]]
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| | commander1_label = [[Powers of the president of the United States#Commander-in-chief|Commander-in-Chief]]
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| | commander2 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of the United States Secretary of Defense.svg|size=25px}} [[Lloyd Austin]]
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| | commander2_label = [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]]
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| | commander3 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of the United States Secretary of the Air Force.svg|size=25px}} [[Frank Kendall III]]
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| | commander3_label = [[United States Secretary of the Air Force|Secretary of the Air Force]]
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| | commander4 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.svg|size=25px}} [[General (United States)|Gen]] [[David W. Allvin]]
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| | commander4_label = [[Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force|Chief of Staff]]
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| | commander5 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.svg|25px}} [[General (United States)|Gen]] [[James C. Slife]]
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| | commander5_label = [[Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force|Vice Chief of Staff]]
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| | commander6 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force.svg|25px}} [[Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force|CMSAF]] [[David A. Flosi]]
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| | commander6_label = [[Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force]]
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| | identification_symbol = [[File:Flag of the United States Air Force.svg|border|100px]]
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| | identification_symbol_label = [[Flag of the United States Air Force|Flag]]
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| | identification_symbol_3 = [[File:Roundel of the USAF.svg|100px]]
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| | identification_symbol_3_label = [[United States military aircraft national insignia|Roundel]]
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| | identification_symbol_4 = [[File:US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg|100px]]
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| | identification_symbol_4_label = [[United_States_Air_Force_Symbol#Hap_Arnold_Wings|Hap Arnold Wings]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Army Air Corps symbol |url=https://www.trademark.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2001490067/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240928175907/https://www.trademark.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2001490067/ |archive-date=28 September 2024 |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.trademark.af.mil |publisher=U.S. Air Force}}</ref>
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| | aircraft_attack = [[A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10]], [[Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano|A-29]], [[Lockheed AC-130|AC-130J]], [[General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper|MQ-9A]], [[Air Tractor-L3Harris AT-802U Sky Warden|OA-1K]]
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| | aircraft_bomber = [[B-1 Lancer|B-1B]], [[Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit|B-2A]], [[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52H]]
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| | aircraft_electronic = [[Boeing E-3 Sentry|E-3B/C/G]], [[Boeing E-4|E-4B]], [[De Havilland Canada Dash 8#Variants|E-9A]], [[Bombardier Global Express#Variants|E-11A]], [[Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call|EC-130H]], [[Lockheed EC-130#Variants|EC-130J]]
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| | aircraft_fighter = [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle|F-15C/D]], [[F-15E Strike Eagle|F-15E]], [[Boeing F-15EX Eagle II|F-15EX]], [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16C/D/CG/DG/CJ/DJ]], [[Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor|F-22A]], [[F-35 Lightning II|F-35A]]
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| | aircraft_helicopter = [[V-22 Osprey|CV-22B]], [[HH-60 Pave Hawk|HH-60G/U/W]], [[MH-139 Grey Wolf|MH-139]], [[UH-1N Twin Huey|UH-1N]]
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| | aircraft_recon = [[MC-12 Liberty|MC-12W]], [[Boeing RC-135|RC-135S/U/V/W]], [[RQ-4 Global Hawk|RQ-4B]], [[AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven|RQ-11]], [[Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel|RQ-170]], [[RQ-180]], [[RQ-20 Puma|RQ-20]], [[Lockheed U-2|U-2S]], [[Pilatus PC-12|U-28]], [[Lockheed WC-130|WC-130J]], [[Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix|WC-135C/W]]
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| | aircraft_trainer = [[T-1A Jayhawk|T-1A]], [[T-6 Texan II|T-6A]], [[T-38 Talon|T-38A/B/C]], [[Cessna T-41 Mescalero|T-41D]], [[Cessna 150|T-51A]], [[Cirrus SR20|T-53A]], [[Boeing RC-135#TC-135|TC-135W]], [[Schempp-Hirth Duo Discus|TG-15A]], [[Schempp-Hirth Discus-2|TG-15B]], [[DG Flugzeugbau DG-1000|TG-16]], [[Bell UH-1 Iroquois#Variant overview|TH-1H]], [[Lockheed U-2#Variants|TU-2S]]
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| | aircraft_transport = [[C-5 Galaxy|C-5M]], [[C-12 Huron|C-12C/D/F/J]], [[C-17 Globemaster III|C-17A]], [[CASA/IPTN CN-235|CN-235]], [[Learjet 35A|C-21A]], [[Boeing C-32|C-32A/B]], [[Gulfstream V|C-37A]], [[Gulfstream G550|C-37B]], [[C-40 Clipper|C-40B/C]], [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|C-130H]], [[Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules|C-130J]], [[Lockheed HC-130|HC-130J/N/P]], [[Lockheed LC-130|LC-130H]], [[Lockheed MC-130|MC-130H/J]], [[Dornier 328#Variants|C-146A]], [[VC-25|VC-25A]]
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| | aircraft_tanker = [[KC-46 Pegasus|KC-46A]], [[KC-135 Stratotanker|KC-135R/T]], [[Lockheed HC-130|HC-130]], [[Lockheed MC-130|MC-130]]
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| | aircraft_general = [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|QF-4E]] (target drone), [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|QF-16]]
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