Air Force F-16s landed this past week at a military base in Serbia on a visit as part of US and Serbian military cooperation, reports Agence France Presse news service. And, it was just seven years ago that US airmen fought a 78-day air war over Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia as part of the NATO-led Operation Allied Force. The Milosevic-less Belgrade has opted to join NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.