But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

— Rick Perry

From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entente, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.

— Ted Deutch

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. Furthermore, I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

— Morgan Freeman

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

— Robert Fulghum

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

— Michael Hayden

My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was homeschooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

— Felicia Day

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

— Winston Churchill

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

— Chiang Kai-shek