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eturn from Mosul flight and, 76–80
See also Incirik Air Base
Turkish Air Force, 79, 83
TV bombs, 137
20th Fighter Wing, 127, 147–48, 159–60, 212
20th Operations Group, 127
23rd Tactical Fighter Squadron “Fighting Hawks,” Hampton’s assignment to, 47–48, 49–53
27th Fighter Squadron, 126
TWO DOGS (call sign), 62, 71, 74, 86, 93–94, 282
Tyndall Air Force Base (Florida), 136
U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, 16–18, 20
UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), 290–91, 300, 304
Umm Qasr (Iraq), attack on, 183
Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT)
advanced phase of, 37–38
beginner’s phase of, 31–36
Drop Night for, 38–39
graduation from, 45
instructors for, 34–36, 37–38
ranking for, 38
selection of students for, 32
United States
impact of 9/11 on, 163–64, 183
resilience of, 163
Upper Heyford Air Base (England), 86
U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), 127
U.S.S. Maddox, 18
U.S.S. Turner Joy, 18
V Corps, U.S. Army, 213, 215
Vance Air Force Base (Oklahoma), 32, 39, 40
“The Vault”
function of, 57, 131–32
at Incirik Air Base, 82–83
Vic (sargeant at Costa Brava), 63
VICTOR (Iraq War call Sign), 219
Vietnam War
air campaigns in, 18
beginning of, 18
end of ideology of, 164
fighter pilot veterans of, 47
“graduated escalation” in, 26, 27
Incirik colonel’s missions during, 96, 97
missile technology during, 245
Operation Linebacker in, 28
retirement of pilots from, 155
survival training and, 42
Tet Offensive in, 27