Flight hours plunged during COVID, but aircraft mishap rates ticked up Stephen Losey
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Two Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, assigned to the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, fly in formation with two Royal Saudi Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles during an exercise over Southwest Asia Dec. 15. The Air Force recorded fewer major mishaps in 2020 but a steep decline in flight hours during the pandemic meant the mishap rate actually ticked up last year. (Staff Sgt. Taylor Harrison/Air Force) The Air Force saw the fewest of the three most serious classes of mishaps involving manned aircraft in at least a decade in fiscal 2020.
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Von Hoffman has been nominated to the grade of major general.
Von Hoffman is currently serving as the mobilization assistant to the commander, Air Force Sustainment Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
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The 30th anniversary of the beginning of Operation DESERT STORM, a massive U.S.-led offensive campaign to liberate Kuwait, was marked Jan. 17, 2021.
“We cannot honor the anniversary of DESERT STORM without acknowledging the massive effort to build up our forces in the Middle East to defend our allies, which was the campaign known as DESERT SHIELD,” said Joshua Lashley, 1st Fighter Wing historian. “It was this rapid deployment and buildup, a true display of American airpower, which led to our success in DESERT STORM.”
The Persian Gulf War began in August 1990 when Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq, ordered his army to invade Kuwait. Just days after, the United States, along with 32 alliance nations, moved swiftly and deliberately to secure oil reserves in the Middle East and ultimately liberate Kuwait.