User:NDCompuGeek/WIP/WP:United States Air Force

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United States Air Force

United States Air Force portal
Active 18 September 1947 - Present
Country United States of America
Branch Air Force
Role "To provide sovereign options for the defense of the United States and its global interests. To fly and fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace"[1]
Size 328,600 active personnel
5,778 aircraft, of which 2,402 are fighters
450 ICBMs
Part of Department of Defense
United States Department of the Air Force
Headquarters The Pentagon
Motto "Above All" (as of 19 Feb 08)
Colors Blue & Gold
March The U.S. Air Force
Engagements World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
Persian Gulf War
Kosovo
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Commanders
Chief of Staff vacant [2]
Vice Chief of Staff Gen Duncan McNabb
Chief Master Sergeant CMSAF Rodney J. McKinley
Insignia
United States Air Force Symbol
Roundel
Aircraft flown
Attack F-15E, A-10, Lockheed AC-130
Bomber B-52H, B-1B, B-2
Electronic
warfare		 E-3, E-8, EC-130, EC-135
Fighter F-22, F-15C, F-16
Helicopter UH-1N, MH-53, HH-60,
Reconnaissance U-2, RC-135, Q-4, Q-1
Trainer T-6, T-37, T-38, T-43, T-1, TG-10
Transport C-17, C-5, C-130, C-135, VC-25, C-32, C-9, CV-22, C-37, C-21, C-12, C-40, KC-10, KC-135 Stratotanker

Welcome to the United States Air Force WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of United States Air Force.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals
  • To fully represent the entirety of the United States Air Force, historical and contemporary, and to have an article reach featured article status at least once a month.
Scope
  • document (and write articles of) organizational types, units (squadron level and above), aircraft, stations and facilities, Chief Master Sergeants, and general officers, in the USAF, both historical and current

Contents

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Requests

• General

  • define all unit types
    • HQ USAF
    • Direct Reporting Unit
    • Field Operating Agency
    • Separate Operating Agency
    • Major Command
    • Numbered Air Force
    • Operational Command
    • Division
    • Wing
    • Group
    • Squadron
  • define all unit locations (station, base, range, depot, etc.)
  • define all personnel positions in an AC&W squadron on an Air Force station
  • straighten out the USAF related categories

• Units and Organizations

  • add all field operating agencies
  • add all separate operating agencies
  • add all direct reporting units
  • add all major commands (historic and contemporary)
  • add all numbered air forces
  • add all operational commands
    • 1-25 OpCom
    • 26-50 OpCom
    • 51+ OpCom
    • 'named' OpCom
  • add all divisions
    • 1-25 Div
    • 26-50 Div
    • 51-75 Div
    • 76-99 Div
    • 100-299 Div (Air National Guard (ANG) & Air Force Reserve (USAFRES) forces)
    • 300-499 Div
    • 500-999 Div
    • 1000+ Div (4-digit)
    • 'named' Div
    • copyedit all divisions (to include all ideas incorporated evolving division additions)
  • add all wings
    • 1-25 Wing
    • 26-50 Wing
    • 51-75 Wing
    • 76-100 Wing
    • 101-150 Wing
    • 150-200 Wing
    • 200-300 Wing
    • 300-400 Wing
    • 400-500 Wing
    • 501+ Wing
    • 'named' Wing
    • Aerospace Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Wings
  • add all groups
  • add all squadrons
  • add all Air Defense Command sectors

• Personnel and Positions

  • add all Secretaries of the Air Force
  • add all Air Force Chiefs of Staff
  • add all Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force
  • add all Air Staff positions
  • add all HQ USAF positions
  • add all positions in an AC&W squadron on an Air Force station

• Equipment

  • ECM (Electronic Counter-Measures)
    • add all B-52 ECM equipment
    • add all B-1 ECM equipment
    • add all B-2 ECM equipment
    • add all ECM pods
    • add all integrated fighter ECM
    • add all remaining ECM equipment
  • AGE (aircraft ground equipment)
  • Navigational equipment (ground-nav / bomb-nav)

[edit] Copyedit

  • 1-25 Division
  • 26-50 Division

[edit] Wikify

[edit] Merge

[edit] Cleanup

[edit] Expand

[edit] Disambiguation

[edit] Stubs

[edit] Update

[edit] NPOV

[edit] Verify

[edit] Other

User:NDCompuGeek/WIP/WP:United States Air Force/to do

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. NDCompuGeek (talk · contribs) (I have discovered I'm better at categorization and research than writing the necessary prose)

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[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new United States Air Force-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
  • Portal main page (any and all suggestions are welcome!)
Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Templates

Template suggestions and proposals
  • for the bottom of the page showing like units and their progression, something like what the Aircraft portal has on their pages
  • for the talk page to categorize and review, like what the military history portal has on their talk pages

[edit] Categories

(User:NDCompuGeek/WIP/WP:United States Air Force/Categories)
  • Category:United States Reserves (new category)
    • Category:United States Army Reserves (new category)
    • Category:United States Navy Reserves (new category)
    • Category:United States Marine Reserves (new category)
    • Category:United States Coast Guard Reserves (new category)
    • Category:United States Air Force Reserves
      • Category:Military units and formations of the United States Air Force Reserves
      • Category:Personnel of the United States Air Force Reserves
        • Category:Enlisted personnel of the United States Air Force Reserves (new category)
        • Category:Officers of the United States Air Force Reserves (new category)
      • Category:Awards and decorations of the United States Air Force Reserves (new category)
      • Category:Facilities of the United States Air Force Reserves



  • Category:United States Civil Air Patrol (CFR from Category:Civil Air Patrol)
    • Category:Units and formations of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Board of directors of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:National executive committee of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:National headquarters of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Regions of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Wings of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Squadrons of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Flights of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
    • Category:Facilities of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
    • Category:Rank and appointments of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Enlisted rank and appointments of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Officer rank and appointments of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
    • Category:Personnel of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Enlisted personnel of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
      • Category:Officers of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
    • Category:Awards and decorations of the United States Civil Air Patrol (new category)
    • Category:Civil Air Patrol images

† Not satisfied with the CFR rename category - needs more thought and work

‡ CFR in progress

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