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In World War II, air liaison officers were senior officers of the Royal Air Force posted within a separate foreign or domestic military or civil service, providing communication between that service and the Royal Air Force. [1]
The group directs four squadrons operating from 11 locations in Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and Japan. The group provides an Air Support Operations Center and Tactical Air Control Parties to US Army combat units at multiple echelons including United States Army Pacific, I Corps, and nine aviation, airborne, infantry and Stryker brigade combat teams of the 2nd and 25th Infantry Divisions.
Following lessons learned in WWII, the 1946 War Department Field Manual 31-35 defined the roles of a ground Forward Air Controller (FAC) and an airborne FAC, or Tactical Air Coordinator Airborne (TACA). Tactical Air Control Parties (TACP) consisted of a FAC and radio personnel, while an Air Liaison Officer (ALO) advised the ground commander.
An Air Liaison Officer with the 14th Air Support Operations Squadron, parachutes to the ground during a joint forcible entry exercise 31 May 2013, at the Nevada Test and Training Range at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. USAF TACPs in the Battle of Do Ab. In the battle, a scout platoon from the 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, United ...
A joint assault signal company (JASCO) was a joint service unit that provided ship to shore and air to ground communications to coordinate and control naval gunfire and close air support for American land forces during World War II. They were composed of specially trained officers and enlisted personnel from the Navy, Marines, and Army.
Detachment 1 of the squadron trains, equips, and deploys airborne-qualified TACP members, air liaison officers, joint terminal attack controllers, and air mobility liaison officers to support the commanders of the 11th Airborne Division and its 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, at Joint Base Elmendorf ...
11UXU – Air Liaison Officer (ALO) 11UXY – General 11UXZ – Other; 12 - Combat System Officer 12BX – Bomber Combat Systems Officer 12BXC – B-1 WSO; 12BXD – B-52 EWO; 12BXE – B-52 WSO; 12BXU – Air Liaison Officer (ALO) 12BXW – EWO, General; 12BXY – General; 12BXZ – Other; 12EX – Experimental Test Combat Systems Officer
He was subsequently appointed the RNZAF's air liaison officer at the Air Ministry in London in 1938. [7] During his final months in the position by which time he held the rank of squadron leader, he was a co-author, along with Dr. Ernest Marsden, of a report for the New Zealand government on the use of radar for air defence. [18]