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The United States Air Force and its predecessors include a number of specialized Air Force Squadrons. These units vary widely in size and may include several hundred enlisted airmen commanded by an officer in the rank of captain to lieutenant colonel. A squadron may include two or three subordinate flights.
A United States Air Force air control squadron is a group assigned to provide combat air control services in the form of radar, surveillance identification, weapons control, Battle Management and theater communications data link to the forces or area it is assigned to. This list contains squadrons inactive, active, and historical.
317th Airlift Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 315 AW: 28 October 1943 JB Charleston, South Carolina: C-17A [234] 326th Airlift Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 512 AW: 15 April 1944 Dover AFB, Delaware: C-17A [235] 337th Airlift Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 439 AW: 26 June ...
Virgin Islands ANG units are trained and equipped by the Air Force and are operationally gained by a Major Command of the USAF if federalized. In addition, the Virgin Islands Air National Guard forces are assigned to Air Expeditionary Forces and are subject to deployment tasking orders along with their active duty and Air Force Reserve ...
A United States Air Force airborne air control squadron is an airborne unit which provides combat air control services in the form of radar, surveillance identification, weapons control, Battle Management and theater communications data link to the forces or area it is assigned to. This list contains squadrons inactive, active, and historical.
The Air Force inherited warrant officer ranks from the Army at its inception in 1947. The Air Force stopped appointing warrant officers in 1959, [172] [173] the same year the first promotions were made to the new top enlisted grade, Chief Master Sergeant. The remaining warrant officers were slowly phased out. [174] [175]
The first Airways and Air Communications Service (AACS) squadrons were formed on 1 June 1948, when the United States Air Force (USAF) discontinued the Army Air Forces Base Unit system while implementing the Wing Base reorganization (Hobson Plan). On 1 October 1948, active AACS squadrons were renumbered starting at 1900 when USAF required Major ...
A squadron in an air force, or naval or army aviation service, is a unit comprising a number of military aircraft and their aircrews, usually of the same type, typically with 12 to 24 aircraft, sometimes divided into three or four flights, depending on aircraft type and air force.