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December 1990

 3 Dec 		At 1903 hours, the 416 TFS Commander, Lt Col
 		Gregory T. Gonyea, took off from Langley AFB,
		 Virginia, leading an element of six F-117As to
		 King Khalid Air Base. Another six aircraft
		 left 30 minutes later, followed by two
		 successive groups of four on 30 minute inter-
		 vals Colonel Whitley flew with the third
		 group on his return journey to Saudi. The
		 entire group of 20 F-ll7As arrived in Saudi on
		 the following day.

5 Dec 		Central Air Forces underwent an internal
		 restructure resulting in the creation of the
		 14th and 15th Air Divisions. The Command 
		 assigned the 17 TFW to the 14th Air Division.

 11 Dec 		Team Stealth received a "how goes it" visit
 		from at Gen Charles A. Homer, the Commander ,
 		Central Air Forces.

 14 Dec 		Representative Dave McCurdy (D-Oklahoma),
 		accompanied by Brlg Gen Buster Glossen, 14th
 		Air Division (Prov) Commander, visited the 37
		TFW. -
 
20 Dec 		To standardize and stabilize organizational
 		structure, Central Air Forces redesignated all
 		wings as provisional units. Thus, the 37 TFW
 		deployed became the 37 TFWP (Provisional- The
 		Command also established provisional combat
 		support groups under each wing.

 23		 Dec Headquarters, Central Air Forces initiated
 		Threat Condition Charlie to heighten the com-
		 mand's security posture during the Christmas
 		 holiday period.

 21 		 Colonel Whitley initiated Sneaky Sultan III to
 		evaluate the wing's ability to accomplish task-
 		ings outlined in the D-Day air tasking order.

 January 1991

5 Jan 		General Merrill A. McPeak, Air Force Chief of
 		Staff, arrived in an F-15 to visit the 37 TFWP.

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