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602nd Tactical Control Group constituted and activated, 11 February 1966; 602 TCG organized, 1 March 1966. It absorbed the resources of the previous 4460th Tactical Control Group. The 602 TCG was redesignated the 602 Tactical Air Control Group on 15 June 1974, and redesignated and upgraded to wing status on 1 October 1976.
Douglas A-1 Skyraiders of the 1st and 602nd Special Operations Squadrons at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base during the Vietnam War. The 602nd Fighter Squadron (Commando) was activated in May 1964 for the Vietnam War, and along with the 1st Air Commando Squadron, was a part of the 34th Tactical Group.
This Article is a list of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons active, inactive, and historical. The purpose of an aircraft control and warning squadron is to provide an airborne radar picket to detect vessels, planes, and vehicles before they enter an area of operations, as well as providing command and control in an engagement by directing aircraft strikes.
7400th Air Force Composite Wing 1 July 1948; 7402d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 1 December 1948; 501st Tactical Control Group (later 501st Tactical Control Wing), 10 June 1949 (attached to Tactical Control Wing, Provisional c. 1 July 1955 – c. 18 December 1957) 86th Air Division, 18 November 1960 – 25 June 1965
The 27th Tactical Air Support Squadron was activated at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona in July 1977, but inactivated three years later when the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron moved from Bergstrom to Davis-Monthan along with the 602d Tactical Air Control Wing and assumed the 27th's mission, personnel and equipment. [3]
As part of an overall reorganization of air defense , on 1 July 1968 USAFE discontinued the 601st Tactical Control Group and activated and organized the 601st Tactical Control Wing (TCW) at Sembach Air Base. The new wing's mission was to oversee the 407 L Tactical Air Control System and the 412 L Aircraft Control and Warning System. [10]
Most TACP personnel are assigned to Air Support Operations Squadrons (ASOS), which are organized, trained and equipped to perform one of two functions, that of a Tactical Air Control Party or an Air Support Operations Center (ASOC). 1Z3X1s are experts on man-portable, vehicle-mounted, and field-expedient communications and are trained in ...
Air Support Operations Center (ASOC) is a USDoD term for a subsection of a Theater Air Control System located near a corps headquarters or some other land force headquarters, which directs and oversees close air support and similar sorts of tactical air support. [1] Controls Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) and Forward Air Control (Airborne ...