One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University

1993
1992–93
by an F–16 Fighting Falcon. This was also the first victory using the
AIM–120A advanced medium-range air-to-air missile.
January 1: The first Air Force Reserve space unit, the 7th Space Operations
Squadron, activated at Falcon Air Force Base, Colorado.
January 3: President George H. W. Bush of the United States and President
Boris Yeltsin of Russia signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty, the most far-reaching nuclear-arms reduction pact in history.
The agreement committed the United States and Russia to the elimination
of all intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying multiple, independently
targetable reentry vehicles and the reduction of the number
of nuclear weapons carried by bombers.
January 13: President George H. W. Bush ordered punitive air strikes
against 32 Iraqi missile sites and air-defense command centers after
the United States discovered an Iraqi troop foray across the newly
demarcated border with Kuwait and active Iraqi surface-to-air missile
sites in the no-fly zone.
January 13: Maj. Susan Helms, USAF, a member of the space shuttle Endeavour
crew, became the first U.S. military woman in space.
April 12: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization launched DENY FLIGHT,
its first combat operation, to enforce a United Nations Security Council
resolution that authorized a no-fly zone over Bosnia. The U.S. Air
Force provided the bulk of the resources for this operation.
April 19–24: Units in Alaska participated in the Air Force’s first combined
exercise with the Russian air force, a search-and-rescue exercise in
Siberia.
April 28: Secretary of Defense Les Aspin announced that women would be
allowed to serve in combat roles, including the flying of USAF combat
aircraft.
June 11: AC–130 Spectre gunships participated in a United Nations raid on
Somali warlord forces in retaliation for a June 5 attack on United
Nations forces in Mogadishu, Somalia.
June 14: The Air Force acquired its first C–17A Globemaster III transport
aircraft, which was delivered to the 437th Airlift Wing at Charleston
Air Force Base, South Carolina. Capable of delivering outsized cargo
to a tactical environment, the Globemaster III increased the Air
Force’s ability to airlift to relatively small airfields, eliminating the
need to shift cargo from larger to smaller transports.
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