Romania’s Mihail Kogaliceanu Airbase has been the site of tactical training for US and Romanian soldiers. Jumping with the ground forces was USAF 1st Lt. Chandra LeCompte, who is serving as a staff weather officer with the Southern European Task Force (Airborne), according to an Eastern European Task Force release. It was her first jump since completing Army airborne school.
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.