Air Force football will will honor the B-52 Stratofortress with the alternate uniforms it is wearing for the Sept. 11 showdown with service academy rival Navy. This is the latest in the Air Power Legacy Series uniform, which debuted in 2016.
This year’s Army-Air Force football game is being played a month earlier than normal because the service academies felt the rivalry would help commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
The helmet is designed after the B-52s that flew in Operation Linebacker II and are painted in the Air Force Southeast Asia camo with USAF on one wing and the roundel on the other.