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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:event
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gptkbp:budget
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$156 billion (2021)
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gptkbp:color
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gptkb:Ultramarine_Blue
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gptkbp:date
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September 18, 1947
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gptkbp:eighteenth_mission
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Coalition operations
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gptkbp:established_in
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President Harry S. Truman
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gptkbp:fifteenth_mission
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Air mobility operations
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gptkbp:first_chief_of_staff
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gptkb:General_Carl_Spaatz
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gptkbp:fourteenth_mission
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Counterinsurgency
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gptkbp:governing_body
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gptkb:United_States_Department_of_Defense
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gptkbp:headquarters
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gptkb:The_Pentagon
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Establishment of the Department of the Air Force
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:World_War_II
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gptkbp:legislation
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gptkb:National_Security_Act_of_1947
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:manager
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gptkb:Frank_Kendall
gptkb:W._Stuart_Symington
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gptkbp:military_branch
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gptkb:United_States_Air_Force
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gptkbp:mission
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gptkb:Research_and_development
Cyber operations
Space operations
Nuclear deterrence
Counter-terrorism
Training and education
Humanitarian assistance
Combat search and rescue
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gptkbp:motto
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Aim High... Fly-Fight-Win
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gptkbp:ninth_mission
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Personnel recovery
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gptkbp:number_of_employees
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Approximately 329,000 (2021)
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gptkbp:predecessor
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gptkb:United_States_Air_Force
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gptkbp:primary_mission
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Disaster relief
Command and control
Rapid global mobility
Global strike
Air and space superiority
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gptkbp:purpose
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Aviation and aerospace operations
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gptkbp:quaternary_mission
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Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
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gptkbp:related_to
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gptkb:Cold_War
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gptkbp:seventeenth_mission
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Joint operations
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gptkbp:significance
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Creation of a separate military branch
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gptkbp:sixteenth_mission
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Air defense
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gptkbp:succeeded_by
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gptkb:United_States_Air_Force
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gptkbp:symbol
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gptkb:Air_Force_Symbol
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:James_Polk_Jr.
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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3
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