Editing Ellison Onizuka (section)

==Air Force career==
On January 15, 1970, Onizuka entered active duty with the United States Air Force,<ref name="graves">{{cite web |url=http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8750&enc=1 |title=National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 |location=Provo, Utah, United States |publisher=The Generations Network, Inc. |year=2006}}</ref> where he served as a [[flight test engineer]] at Sacramento Air Logistics Center at [[McClellan Air Force Base]]. He worked in test flight programs and systems security engineering for the [[F-84]], [[F-100 Super Sabre|F-100]], [[F-105]], [[F-111]], [[EC-121]]T, [[T-33 Shooting Star|T-33]], [[North American T-39 Sabreliner|T-39]], [[T-28 Trojan|T-28]], and [[A-1 Skyraider|A-1]].

From August 1974 to July 1975, Onizuka attended the [[U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School]]. In July 1975, he was assigned to the Flight Test Center at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] in [[California]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=James A. (Gene) |title=Some Trust in Chariots |publisher=Xulon Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-60034-096-3 |page=149}}</ref> Onizuka became a squadron flight test engineer at the USAF Test Pilot School, and later worked as a manager for engineering support in the training resources division. His duties there consisted of course instruction and management of the airship fleet ([[A-7 Corsair II|A-7]], [[A-37 Dragonfly|A-37]], [[T-38 Talon|T-38]], [[F-4 Phantom II|F-4]], [[T-33 Shooting Star|T-33]], and [[KC-135|NKC-135]]) being used for the Test Pilot School and Flight Test Center. While at the school, Onizuka registered more than 1,700 flight hours.<ref name=nasa>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/onizuka_ellison.pdf |title=ELLISON S. ONIZUKA (COLONEL, USAF), NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) |date=January 2007 |access-date=May 14, 2021}}</ref>