Alabama Air National Guard
- Alabama Air National Guard
The Alabama Air National Guard is the component of the United States Air National Guard operating within the state of Alabama.
Units
* 117th Air Refueling Wing
* 187th Fighter Wing
Role in the Bay of Pigs Invasion
According to information from Seymour M. Hersh, author of "The Dark Side of Camelot" during early preparations to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally asked then-Governor of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson (who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama (Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard) by Cuban émigrés to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua. Patterson agreed and then-commander, Major General George R. Doster was ordered to oversee all operation.
Notable personnel
* Lieutenant George W. Bush
External links
* [http://alguard.state.al.us/ Alabama National Guard]
* [http://www.almont.ang.af.mil/ Alabama Air National Guard, 187th Fighter Wing]
* [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1042 Alabama National Guard article, Encyclopedia of Alabama]
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