Wrangell Mountains
Wrangell Mountains S Alaska, extending c.100 mi (160 km) SE from the Copper River to the Canadian border, where they meet the St. Elias Mts. Mt. Blackburn (16,523 ft/5,036 m) is the highest peak. There is a cosmic radiation observatory on Mt. Wrangell (14,006 ft/4,269 m). Minerals such as gold, copper, and zinc are mined in the area. Named for the Russian explorer Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel, the mountains comprise a portion of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve .
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
U.S. AIR FORCE PROVIDES RESTRUCTURING DETAILS
PR Newswire; 12/13/1991; 700+ words
; U.S. AIR FORCE PROVIDES RESTRUCTURING DETAILS WASHINGTON...details on the restructure of three of the Air Force's major commands into two new commands...headquarters bases of these commands at Langley Air Force Base, Va., Scott Air Force Base, Ill...
|
|
Air Guard boss: reliance on reserve units will increase. (Air National Guard; Major General Donald Shepperd)(Interview)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 2/24/1997; ; 700+ words
; The Air Force will be relying even more on reserve units in the years ahead...the Pentagon pie." Shepperd said he was working closely with Air Force officials on the "Air Force portion" of the ongoing Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) that...
|
|
Air Combat Command.(ORGANIZATIONS)(Table)
Magazine article from: Airman; 2/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...air sovereignty and wartime air defense. Numbered air forces provide airs component to U.S. Central...headquarters serving as the air component to U.S. Northern...Joint Forces commands. Augments forces to U.S. European, Pacific...Subordinate Units * U.S. Air ...
|
|
|
Air Education and Training Command.(ORGANIZATIONS)(Table)
Magazine article from: Airman; 2/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...also conducts joint, readiness and Air Force security assistance training. Responsibilities...PME 20,727 Officer PME 6,593 Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed...Professional continuing education 22,298 Air Force Institute of Technology 16,648...
|
|
Air force and air defense troops in the Great Patriotic War and in contemporary military operations.
Magazine article from: Military Thought; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and content of combat tasks of air force and relevant forms and methods...commanders believed that air force should achieve domination in...depended on how successful the air force was when carrying out these...lessened the losses of the land forces; helped the Red Army more ...
|
|
|
Air weapons vs. air defense: armed conflicts in recent decades.
Magazine article from: Military Thought; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...governing the use of air forces at the initial...assign to its air forces some other objectives...of Israel's Air Force, secrecy in preparing...shift in relative air strengths in favor...to friendly land forces only after it gained...the Israeli air force ...
|
|
Air Force begins new era in technical integration.
Magazine article from: Communications News; 1/1/1991; 700+ words
; AIR FORCE BEGINS NEW ERA IN TECHNICAL INTEGRATION...say that what's going on in the U.S. Air Force heavily impacts not only scenarios like...traffic control service we provide to the Air Force is being recognized as an important and...
|
|
|
Air Force alters position on close air support, theater air defense.
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 12/15/1994; ; 700+ words
; The Air Force no longer is proposing giving up fixed...missions said. Under the leadership of new Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman...air defense. McPeak had suggested the Air Force cede the close air support mission entirely...
|
|
AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF ANNOUNCES GENERAL OFFICER ASSIGNMENTS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/13/2007; 524 words
; ...the following press release: The Air Force chief of staff announces the assignments...Hansen, vice commander, Ninth Air Force, Air Combat Command; and deputy...commander, U.S. Central Command Air Forces, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., to director...
|
|
|
AIR COMBAT COMMAND ANNOUNCES SENIOR LEADER RETIREMENTS, ASSIGNMENTS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...AFB, Va., will become Air Force director of the Chaplain...Bobby V. Page, Air Force Plans and Programs chief...will become Pacific Air Forces Contracting Division chief...commander, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. Col...
|
|
Air Force Office of Special Investigations, United States
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...antiterrorism teams, based at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB) in Texas; Ramstein...seven are tied with major air force commands: materiel (Region...Region 4), United States Air Forces in Europe (Region 5), Pacific...Forces (Region 6), and Air Force Space Command ...
|
|
Air Force Combat Organizations: Tactical Air Forces
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Air Force Combat Organizations: Tactical Air Forces. Tactical air forces...needed to operate an air base and sustain the operational forces stationed at the base...organized into numbered air forces (e.g. Eighth Air Force, Ninth Air ...
|
|
Air Canada
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...with roomier vehicles, but high air fares, which were regulated...used that power to demand lower air fares from more competitive airlines...anyone. In the late 1970s these forces combined to gain the support...When Parliament passed the Air Canada Act of 1978, the Crown...
|
|
Air masses and fronts
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...cold air moving across Earth ’ s surface comes into contact with a warm air mass, the denser cold air mass may force its way under the lighter warm air mass. The boundary formed between these two air masses is a cold front. Cold fronts...
|
|
|
Air Force Intelligence, United States
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Air Force Intelligence, United States █...intelligence agencies. Background. The U.S. Air Force has its roots in the Aeronautical Section...1947 for the first time established the Air Force as a separate military service. Throughout...
|
