Nixon, Richard, war policies

Nogrowski (operations officer, Lakenheath)

North Vietnam

See also Vietnam War

Northrop BQM-74 (drone aircraft)

Nuclear Forces, USAF

Nuclear weapons

Nurses, USAF reserve

Offensive air campaign

Offensive airpower

Officer Efficiency Reports (OERs)

Officers

Horner as commander of

NCOs and

Oil, dumped by Iraqis

Oil fields, burning of

Oil refinery, Dhahran, Iraqi attack

Old fighter pilots

Olsen, Tom

daily routine

and Scud attacks on Israel

O’Malley, Jerry

Oman, infantry

101st Air Assault Division

Operational Readiness Inspections (ORIs)

Operation Bolo

Operation EARNEST WILL

Operation Enduring Freedom

Operations officers

Optically aimed surface-to-air missiles

Owens, Bill

PACAF (Pacific Air Force)

Pagonis, Gus

Pakistani Air Force

Pararescue Jumpers (PJs)

Paratroopers

Partnership, Coalition as

Patch wearers

Patrick AFB, Florida

Patriot missiles

PAVE LOW helicopters

PAVE TAC pods

Pearson, Dick

Peay (Army major general)

Pentagon

and Gulf War

Personnel system, and combat duty

Pfeiffer, Hans

PGMs (precision-guided missiles)

Phillips, Joe Bob

and friendly fire problem

Phuc Yen, North Vietnam

Pilots, outstanding

Pipelines, opened by Iraqis

Pitchout landings

PJs (parachute jumpers)

Placement of forces, problems of

Planning, military

Pod formations

Poison gas

Policies, inefficient, Vietnam War

Political objectives of war

Pontoon bridges

Pope AFB, Airlift Center

Powell, Colin

and air campaign plan

and biological warfare

briefings

PPBS (Planning, Programming, Budgeting System)

Precision bombs

Preparation of battlefield

Press interviews

Pride

Prisoners of war, Desert Storm:

American pilots as

Iraqi

Prisoners of war, Iraqi Freedom

Problem-solving

Profitt, Glenn

Psychological warfare

“Puba’s Party,”

Purvis, Joe

Push CAS

Qatar, mechanized forces

Quayle, Dan

Quick Reaction Process (QRP)

Quick-turn base

Race problems

Radar-equipped aircraft

Radar-guided surface-to-air missiles

Radio transmissions, Iraqi

Rahamani, Ahmed Al-

Rahsid, Yousef

Railroad lines, Iraqi

Raja, Mohammed

Randolph, Randy

Rank, military

Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF)

“Rapid Dominance,”

Rashid, Josuf

Ratchet-75 (EF-111A aircraft)

Rated personnel, Air Force

Rathburn-Healy, Melissa

Ready, Fire, Aim concept

Reavy, Mike

Reconnaissance, space operations

Reconnaissance, aircraft

Red Ball Express (Gulf War transport)

Red Flag (combat exercise)

Red Horse Squadron

Regalli, Dino

Regional Commanders in Chief

Religious faith

Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF)

Republican Guard (Iraqi)

Rescue operations

Responsibility, acceptance of

Richie, Bill

Rider, Bill

Riley, Jerry

Rivet Joint aircraft

battle plan

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

RMA (revolution in military affairs)

Road system, Iraq, destruction of

Robbin, Joe

Robinson, Country

Rocket-fuel plants, bombing of

ROE (rules of engagement) orders

Rogers, Craven C. “Buck,”

ROLLING THUNDER (Vietnam)

Roquejeoffre, Michael

Roschelle, Carl

Rotation policies

ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps)

Route Packages

Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF)

F-15Cs

headquarters

losses

Royal Saudi Land Force, mechanized infantry

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russ, Bob

Ryan, Jack

SAC (Strategic Air Command)

Safety of troops, Schwarzkopf and

“Saint” (American pilot in Bahrain)

Salman Pak Biological Warfare Center

Samdan, Abdullah Al-

SAMs (surface-to-air missiles)

Wild Weasels and

SANG (Saudi Arabian National Guard)

Santos, José

SAR (search-and-rescue)

RSAF headquarters cell

SAS (Special Air Service, British), operations in Iraq

Satellites

Saudi Arabia

Iraqi threat

defense against

military leaders

Scud attacks

and servicewomen

troops killed by friendly fire

See also Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF)

Saudi National Guard

Saudi pilots

Sawyer, Dave