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An Air Force weather parachutist—a staff weather officer with the 82nd Airborne Division—wearing grey beret with Combat Weather Team Beret Flash and crest (2007) Staff Weather Officers (SWOs) are United States Air Force personnel tasked with providing tactical and operational meteorological support for conventional Army forces.
The decisive origins of Special Operations Weather becoming a unique separate career weather Air Force Specialty Code having a specialty description is the 1 October 1996 reactivation of the 10th Air Weather Squadron as the 10th Combat Weather Squadron (10th CWS) and assigned to the 720th Special Tactics Group (720th STG) of the Air Force ...
Redesignated 10th Combat Weather Squadron on 1 April 1996; inactivated 16 May 2014 [2] 11th Weather Squadron: 12th Weather Squadron: 13th Expeditionary Combat Weather Squadron: Redesignated from 13th Weather Squadron and reactivated in 2021. [1] 13th Weather Squadron: Inactivated in 1951. [1] 14th Weather Squadron: Asheville, North Carolina ...
Col. Tamzy J. House et al. (1996) Weather as a Force Multiplier:Owning the Weather in 2025, accessed August 2, 2006; Historical bibliography at ibiblio.org; Army Regulation 115–10 Weather Support for the U.S. Army (PDF). Washington, DC: Departments of the Army, and the Air Force. 6 January 2010.
The United States Air Force's 1st Combat Weather Squadron is a weather unit located at Fort Lewis, Washington. [1] The squadron is connected to the 1st Air Support Operations Group and it provides support to units based at Joint Base Lewis–McChord, including I Corps, the Stryker brigades, an army aviation unit, the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, and the 201st Expeditionary Military ...
To better reflect the changing mission of the unit, USAFETAC was renamed the Air Force Combat Climatology Center (AFCCC) on 1 October 1995. AWS was redesignated as the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) on 15 October 1997. With the end of the Cold War, AFCCC faced a 45% cut in overall manning (civilian positions were to be cut by 65%).
After the Air Force separated from the Army in 1947, it retained the Army's system of MOS occupation codes, modifying them in 1954. These were 5-digit codes; for example a maintenance data systems specialist was 39150 and a weather technician was 25170.
The 557th Weather Wing is a United States Air Force formation and its lead military meteorology center. It reports environmental situational awareness worldwide to the Air Force, the United States Army, joint warfighters, Unified Combatant Commands, the national intelligence community, and the Secretary of Defense.