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  ...t enemy attack will come. In general terms, fighter cover between a strike force and an area of expected threat, also known as a "MiG screen". ...ing and destroying hostile aircraft before they reach their target. Combat air patrols apply to both overland and overwater operations, protecting aircraf
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• Airman's Creed
  In 2007, [[General]] T. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, introduced the '''Airman's Creed'''<ref name="CSAF Presents">{{cite web |author=General T. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff of the Air Force
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  |issued_by= [[United States Navy]] ...sponsibility of independent duty aboard ships and submarines; Fleet Marine Force, Special Forces and Seabee units, and at isolated duty stations where no me
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...dmark|name=USMCBarracksatBeirutAirport|display=inline,title}}<br/>[[United States Marine Corps]] [[barracks]], [[Beirut Airport]] ...Military of France|French military forces]]—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization [
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• Hooah
  '''Hooah''' ({{IPA-en|ˈhuːɑː|pron}}) is a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[battle cry]] used<ref>[http://www.cavhooah.com/hooah.htm ...y.about.com/od/jointservices/a/hooah.htm - "You can hear it shouted by Air Force Security Forces, Pararescue, and Combat Controllers. It is also known to be
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• USS Lansing (DE-388)
  ...ort|''Edsall''-class destroyer escort]], was the only ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for Aviation Machinist Mate First Class [[William Henry ...ses during 1961 and 1963 and engaged in search operations for a downed Air Force Globemaster in January 1964.
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• USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
  ...ll (DE-129)|''Edsall''-class]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. Named for Ensign Frederick Curtice Davis (a ...t's [[antiaircraft]] fire before further damage could be done. Again under air attack on 26 November, ''Frederick C. Davis'' splashed at least two of the
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• USS Jacob Jones (DE-130)
  ...ic Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort service against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. ...arted with [[Task Force]] 64 escorting a convoy bound back to the [[United States]].
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• USS Herbert C. Jones (DE-137)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...epted radio messages which enabled her to give warning of impending German air attacks. ''Herbert C. Jones'' received the [[Navy Unit Commendation]] for h
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...3; sponsored by Mrs. Vestie Foster, the mother of three sons in the United States Navy; and commissioned at Orange, Lt. Alden J. Laborde, [[USNR]], in comman
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• USS Chatelain (DE-149)
  ...p honours=5 [[battle stars]] plus the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] ...ly with five [[battle stars]] and the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]].
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• USS Sturtevant (DE-239)
  ...cean]], and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...during [[World War I]] when he, a pilot, was shot down by an overwhelming force of [[Germany|German]] fighter planes.
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• USS Moore (DE-240)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...raining exercises and then headed south to Norfolk where she joined [[Task Force|task group]] TG 24.14 and sailed, on the 15th, in the screen of [[USS Tripo
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. She was named in honor of [[United States Navy]] Chief Watertender and [[Croats|Croatian]] [[Peter Tomich]] who recei
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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...isregard of personal danger in the effort to repel the attack on the Naval Air Station, [[Kaneohe Bay]], [[Oahu]].
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• USS Sloat (DE-245)
  ...c Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. She was named in honor of [[Rear Admiral (United States)|Rear Admiral]] [[John Drake Sloat]] (1781&ndash;1867). She was laid down
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...ich arrived on 8 March. The escort then moved to Norfolk and joined [[Task Force|Task Group]] (TG) 21.15, a [[Hunter-killer armored-vehicle team|hunter-kill
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...ber. The escorts picked up convoy GUS-24 there and headed for the [[United States]] on 15 December 1943 and arrived safely at New York on 3 January 1944.
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  ...c Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...[[Charles Swasey]] who was wounded during an engagement with [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces near [[Donaldsville, Louisiana]], on 4 Octo
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  ...c Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...as a unit of Task Force 63 bound for [[Gibraltar]]. On 31 January, [[Task Force]] 63 stood into the [[Straits of Gibraltar]], turned over the escort of the
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...he convoy safely to Derry 26 April, and returned in convoy to the [[United States]] where she arrived New York 12 May. During the next year ''Joyce'' conduct
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...-long [[Hedgehog (weapon)|hedgehog]] and [[depth charge]] attacks brought "air bubbles, wreckage, and large quantities of oil" to the surface. A violent u
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• USS Lowe (DE-325)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war she was converted and ser ...owe'' went into action 20 April when her convoy came under tenacious enemy air attack off the [[North African]] coast. Simultaneously, two high speed wake
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• USS Strickland (DE-333)
  ...c Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. Post-war, she served the U.S. Navy ...was [[torpedo]]ed and badly damaged. The ship's return trip to the United States was uneventful, and she arrived at [[New York]] on 11 May.
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• USS Mills (DE-383)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war, she performed additional ...oyd Jones Mills]] who was awarded the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] posthumously for his brave actions in the [[A
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• USS Rhodes (DE-384)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer [[escort]] protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy [[Watercraft|vessels]] and [[convoys]]. Post-war she served ...ander (United States)|Lieutenant Commander]] E. A. Coffin of the [[United States Coast Guard]] in command.
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...returned to the [[United States]] with Convoy GUS (Gibraltar to the United States) 33 and arrived at [[New York City]] on 3 April.
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• USS Neunzer (DE-150)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...uring the [[Aleutian Islands]] Campaign and was posthumously awarded the [[Air Medal]]. She was laid down by the [[Consolidated Steel]] Corp., [[Orange, T
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  ...kins Brough]] (15 June 1914–1942), a Naval Aviator who was awarded the [[Air Medal]] [[Posthumous recognition|posthumously]] for his actions during the ...ree 3"/5O cal. guns. But as the pattern of warfare shifted from surface to air actions, repeated alterations resulted in the removal of the torpedoes, and
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  ...in the [[Mediterranean]] and the [[United Kingdom]] and back to the United States. Here is a list of the ETO convoys: ...me day, she again got underway; this time with Carrier Division 27. As the force steamed toward the [[Philippines]], word of Japan's surrender reached the s
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• USS Frost (DE-144)
  |Ship honours=7 [[battle stars]] and the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] ...oudly with seven battle stars and the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]].
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...ce was engaged in escorting convoys of 60 to 80 merchant ships from United States ports to the Mediterranean Theatre. ...loaded with vital war materials safely past the heavy enemy submarine and air concentrations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
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• USS Swenning (DE-394)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...devotion to duty was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. Swenning died just a few days later on December 1 1942 and w
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• USS Haverfield (DE-393)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...-vehicle team|HUK]] group under {{USS|Block Island|CVE-21}}, the ''Bogue'' force sank [[Japanese submarine RO-501|RO-501]], ex-[[U-1224]], at {{coord|18|08|
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• USS Keith (DE-241)
  {{For|United States Navy ships named ''Willard Keith''|USS Willard Keith}} ...led in action on 11 June 1942, Seaman Keith was posthumously awarded the [[Air Medal]].
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• USS Price (DE-332)
  ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war she was assigned addition ...[Bizerte]], [[Tunisia]]. She then escorted a return convoy to the [[United States]], subsequently escorting two more convoys to Bizerte.
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• USS Pope (DE-134)
  |Ship honours=3 Battle Stars plus the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] ...Ocean]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]].
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• USS Pillsbury (DE-133)
  |Ship honours=5 [[battle stars]] and a [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] ...udly with five [[battle stars]] and a [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]].
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• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
  {{otheruses4|the United States Navy ship|other meanings|Chincoteague}} |Ship caption=USS ''Chincoteague'' (AVP-24) off the [[United States West Coast]] in mid-1945 after an [[wikt:overhaul|overhaul]].
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  |Ship notes=Served as U.S. Coast Guard [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|cutter]] [[USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382)|USCGC ''Bering '''USS ''Bering Strait'' (AVP-34)''' was a [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barnegat''-class]] small [[
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• USS Wachapreague (AGP-8)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Transferred to [[United States Coast Guard]] 27 May 1946
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• USS Yakutat (AVP-32)
  |Ship notes=Served as [[United States Coast Guard]] [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|cutter]] [[USCGC Yakutat (WAVP-380)|USCGC ''Yakutat'' (W '''USS ''Yakutat'' (AVP-32)''' was a [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barnegat''-class]] small [[
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• USS Humboldt (AVP-21)
  |Ship notes=Served as U.S. [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] [[USCGC Humboldt (WAVP-372)|USCGC ' '''USS ''Humboldt'' (AVP-21)''' was a [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class seaplane tender|''Barnegat''-class]] small [[seapla
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}}
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• USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376)
  ...time between 1949 and the U.S. Coast Guard's 1967 adoption of the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] marking on its ships. |Ship country=United States
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• USS Barataria (AVP-33)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Loaned to [[United States Coast Guard]] 17 September 1948<br/>Transferred outright to Coast Guard 26
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• USS Biscayne (AVP-11)
  |Ship notes=Served as U.S. [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] [[USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385)|USCGC ''D ...eaplane tender from 1941 to 1943 and as an [[amphibious warfare|amphibious force]] [[flagship]] from 1943 to 1946.
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  |Ship country=United States |Ship fate=Transferred to [[United States Coast Guard]] 27 May 1946
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• USS Big Horn (AO-45)
  '''USS ''Big Horn'' (AO-45/IX-207)''' was a [[Q-ship]] of the [[United States Navy]] named for the [[Bighorn River]] of [[Wyoming]] and [[Montana]]. ...such a position that no action could be taken without damaging the United States troopship ''Mexico'' or the Egyptian ship ''Raz El Farog''. At 16:27, looko
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  The '''''Barnegat'' class''' was a large class of [[United States Navy]] small [[seaplane tender]]s built during [[World War II]]. Thirty wer ...rce of seaplane tenders in the event of a war in the [[Pacific]], to allow air operations from undeveloped islands and atolls. Full-size seaplane tenders
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