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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Navy wing commanders are either Naval Aviators or Naval Flight Officers who typically have command of a carrier air wing or a "functional" air wing or air group such as a strike fighter wing, a patrol and reconnaissance wing, a tactical air control group, or a training air wing, with several squadron commanding officers reporting to him/her ...
The Wisconsin Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the highest echelon of Civil Air Patrol in the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Wing headquarters are located in Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Wing consists of over 1000 cadet and adult members at multiple locations across the state of Wisconsin. [1]