USAF for the 21st Century: Super Wing Total Force Integration (Osprey Military Aircraft) [Paperback]

James Benson (Author), Tony Holmes (Author)

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This lavishly illustrated series from Osprey is packed with detailed cutaways and glorious full colour photography, including specially sourced air-to-air pictures, depicting both civilian and military aircraft.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (August 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855326175
• ISBN-13: 978-1855326170
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,359,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work depicting a U.S. Air Force composite wing, May 31, 2003

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Dash8 (N. Olmsted, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: USAF for the 21st Century: Super Wing Total Force Integration (Osprey Military Aircraft) (Paperback)

This book provides a wonderful illustration of the current modern and mobile fighting force concept, the Air Expeditionary Force (AEF). The AEF is the model by which the U.S. Air Force deploys and fights overseas. The AEF is a "packaged" unit of fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, electronic combat, transport, tanker, and rescue aircraft. The book shows the former 366th Wing based at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. The composite wing's squadrons are illustrated in excellent, first rate color photographs with intelligent, detailed captions: 390th Fighter Squadron (F-15C Eagle), 391st Fighter Squadron (F-15E Strike Eagle), 389th Fighter Squadron (F-16C Fighting Falcon), 34th Bomb Squadron (B-52G Stratofortress / B-1B Lancer) and the 22nd Air Refueling Squadron (KC-135R Stratotanker). The U.S. Air Force no longer operates composite wings as the 366th Wing was broken up in 2002 with the loss of its bomber and air refueling squadrons becoming the 366th Fighter Wing with just its F-15 and F-16 fighters. While the composite wing structure is no longer in use, the integrated fighting force that the book depictes is at the heart of current AEFs that waged war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatlooking!!!, April 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: USAF for the 21st Century: Super Wing Total Force Integration (Osprey Military Aircraft) (Paperback)

Liked this book very much, lots of great pictures, information and history!Highly recommended!!!

4.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding brief hisory and pictoral of the modern 366 FW, November 15, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: USAF for the 21st Century: Super Wing Total Force Integration (Osprey Military Aircraft) (Paperback)

Outstanding pictures and brief history of the Air Force's composite wing at Mt Home. I am one of the pilots in the pictures (F-16 pilot climbing into the cockpit) who had the honor of serving there when the wing was standing up. This book goes very well with Tom Clancy's Fighter Wing, which was written about the wing at the same time.