General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle Award
The James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle Award recognizes an active Air Force or Space Force unit for gallantry, determination, esprit de corps, and superior management of joint operations in accomplishing its mission under difficult and hazardous conditions in multiple conflicts.
General James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle was a pioneering pilot, aeronautical engineer, combat leader, and military strategist whose career stretched from World War I to the height of the Cold War. He is most famous for leading a daring bombing raid over Tokyo in 1942, the first American attack on the Japanese mainland. Doolittle’s 16 planes dropped their bombs and then, lacking fuel to return to their carrier, flew on to crash-land in China and the Soviet Union.
AWARDS
Featured Award Winners
2024
Space Delta 4, Buckley Space Force Base, CO
Space Delta 4 (DEL 4) is a United States Space Force unit responsible for providing strategic and theater missile warning to the United States and its international partners. It operates three constellations of Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) satellites and two types of Ground-Based Radars (GBRs) for the purpose of conducting strategic and theater missile warning. Additionally, DEL 4 provides tipping and cueing to missile defense forces, battlespace awareness to combatant commanders and technical intelligence for further analysis and manages weapon system architectures and ensures operations are intelligence-led, cyber-resilient, and driven by innovation, while postured to operate in a contested, degraded, and operationally limited environment.
2024 AFHF Outstanding Training Unit Award
56th Fighter Wing, Luke Air Force Base
Located west of Phoenix, Luke Air Force Base is home to the 56th Fighter Wing, the largest fighter wing in the world and the Air Force’s primary active-duty fighter pilot training wing. As part of Air Education and Training Command, and home to 24 squadrons with both F-35A Lightning II and F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, the 56th graduates more than 400 pilots and 300 air control professionals annually. The wing is also responsible for six additional squadrons under the 54th Fighter Group located at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, where F-16 training will move in the interim as Luke AFB transitions to become the primary pilot training center for the F-35A, the Air Force’s newest multi-role aircraft. Additionally, the 56th Fighter Wing oversees the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field and is steward of the Barry M. Goldwater Range, a military training range spanning more than 1.7 million acres of Sonoran Desert.
Past Doolittle Award Recipients
- 2023: 432nd Wing Creech Air Force Base, NV
- 2022: 480th ISR Wing Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA
- 2021: 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth AFB, SD
- 2020: No Award Given
- 2019: 55th Wing, Offutt AFB, Nebraska
- 2018: 1st Fighter Wing, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA
- 2017: 432nd Wing, Creech AFB, NV
- 2016: 100th Air Refueling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, UK
- 2015: 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman AFB, MO
- 2014: 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, AR
- 2013: 720th Special Tactics Group, Hurlburt Field, FL
- 2012: No Award Given
- 2011: 4th Fighter Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, NC