1. Gen.William R.Looney III stepped down as commander of Air Education and Training Command on July 2 and retired from the Air Force after 36 years of service. Gen. Stephen R. Lorenz succeeded him. 2. On June 30, two F-16s from the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw AFB, S.C., flew the milestone 50,000th sortie for the Continental US NORAD Region as part of Operation Noble Eagle. 3. The F-22 made its first appearance over Britain in July, performing at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on July 12 and July 13 and at the Farnborough International Air Show outside of London on July 14. 4. USAF and its British, French, and German counterparts on June 27 held a memorial ceremony at the Berlin Airlift Memorial at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. They commemorated 78 Allied airmen who died during the 15-month airlift in 1948-49.
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