The phrase "air force ground" is not a standard or commonly used expression in written English.
It may be used in a specific context related to military operations or discussions about the ground forces of an air force, but it is not widely recognized.
Example: "The air force ground units were deployed to support the mission."
Alternatives: "air force ground units" or "ground forces of the air force".
By some accounts, they also monitored conversations between pilots and air force ground controls.
It is being replaced by the Puma, a development of the Pointer with more-advanced sensors, by the RQ-11 Raven, a scaled-down version of the Puma, and by the Wasp, a tiny vehicle weighing about 1 pound (less than half a kilogram) with a wingspan of 2 feet 4.5 inches (72 cm); the last is being issued to air force ground combat control teams as well as marines down to the platoon level.
It was upgraded to comprise one of five branches of the IRGC — with the navy, air force, ground forces, and the Quds Force representing the other four — after the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.2 The Basij dramatically expanded into society with the support of Ayatollah Ali KhameneiIranran's Supreme Leader.
The Syrian air force grounded its helicopters, fearing they would experience turbulence while rolling out their barrel bombs.
The air force grounded its fleet of hundreds of Su-24 attack planes after one of the jets crashed during a training flight in Russia's Far East.
A handful of Republican and Democratic senators are urging him to impose a no-fly zone to keep president Bashar al-Assad's air force grounded, while Kerry is advocating arming Syrian rebels.
Stung by that devastating defeat, the North Vietnamese Air Force grounded their fighter force several times between June and August 1967, in order to work on their training and tactics.
With the Iraqi air force grounded, he said, the return signal "is never going to be a 'foe,' so there's no reason ever to fire at an airplane," he said.
It has its own navy, air force, and ground troops, as well as specialist wings.
In early November, after the Houthis had apparently attacked Saudi forces across the blurred border, the Saudi air force and ground troops responded against Houthi positions.
Such teamwork between the air force and ground troops was successful when the military prevented Boko Haram from taking over Konduga, near Maiduguri, to public acclaim in September.
