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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.
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 60lst Tactical Control Wing was organized at Sembach on 1 July 1968. The new wing assumed the missions of the 601st Tactical Control Group and 603d Air Base Wing, which were inactivated. [2] On 14 November 1968, the 86th Air Division at Ramstein Air Base, which controlled United States air defense units in Germany, was inactivated. [3]
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.
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.
It was constituted as the 85th Tactical Control Flight on 7 February 1977, and activated on 1 March of that year with the 602nd Tactical Air Control Wing at Luke Air Force Base. The flight was inactivated there on 1 July 1983.
609th Tactical Control Squadron, 15 October 1969; 727th Tactical Control Squadron, 1 June 1976; 602d Tactical Air Control Wing, 1 March 1977 – 31 March 1988; Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate at any time on or after 12 February 2009 [1] 368th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group, by July 2010 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, c ...