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USAF

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air force of the USA, one of the seven uniformed services of the US Military. It was founded in 1941 as the US Army Air Force during World War II, and it is one of the most powerful air forces in the world, with a strength of 307,001 active personnel, 177,221 civilian personnel, 69,200 reserve personnel, 105,500 air guard personnel, 5,137 aircraft, 450 ICBMs, and 63 satellites. The USAF was fought in the Korean War, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Operation Urgent Fury, Operation Eldorado Canyon, Operation Just Cause, Gulf War, Bombing of Iraq, Operation Deliberate Force, Kosovo War, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, War in North-West Pakistan, Operation Odyssey Dawn, the Iraqi Civil War, and Syrian Civil War.

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