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A Component Numbered Air Force (C-NAF) has the additional role as an Air Force Component Command exercising command and control over air and space forces supporting a Unified Combatant Command. [2] Unlike MAJCOMs, which have a management role, a NAF is a tactical organization with an operational focus, and does not have the same functional ...
In 1943, Army Air Forces Flying Training Command organized 22 flying training wings and Army Air Forces Technical Training Command activated 39 training wings at its basic training centers. Although the flying training wings were numbered in the single series along with other operational wings, the training wings were numbered separately, with ...
This is a list of major commands (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force. A major command is a significant Air Force organization subordinate to Headquarters, US Air Force. Major commands have a headquarters staff and subordinate organizations, typically formed in numbered air forces, centers, wings, and groups. [1]
Air Forces of the United States include the current United States Air Force; its executive department; its current, former, and predecessor numbered Air Forces (e.g., Eighth Air Force); or numerous other US organizations (e.g., 3 were designated "… Training Air Force" as "major subordinate units" of Air Training Command).
The continental, numbered Air Forces used three digit numbers from 100 through the 400 range with the leading digit indicating the numbered Air Force. Thus First Air Force bases' units were in the 100 series range, and so forth for 200 -400. Other organization also used three digit numbers of 500 and beyond.
This page currently focuses on one of the two historical categories of USAF wings: "AFCON" (Headquarters (US) Air Force CONtrolled) units or "permanent" units, which during the Cold War period were readily distinguished by having one, two or three digit designations, such as the 1st Fighter Wing, 60th Military Airlift Wing, 355th Fighter Wing, and could go through a series of inactivations and ...
This alphabetically arranged list of air forces identifies the current and historical names and roundels for the military aviation arms of countries fielding an air component, whether an independent air forces, a naval aviation, or army aviation units. At the end is a separate list of no longer existent nations that once operated air forces.
Pages in category "Numbered air forces of the United States Air Force" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .