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1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance) 2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter) 3rd Battalion (General Support) 4th Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance) Fort Carson, Colorado. K-16 Air Base, South Korea. Camp Humphreys, South Korea. Camp Humphreys, South Korea. CAB, 2nd Infantry Division.
406th Fighter Squadron. Strasbourg/Entzheim Airport. P-47. Inactivated on 10 November 1945 - Consolidated on 19 September 1985 with the 506th Air Refueling Squadron. 407th Fighter Squadron. Alexandria Army Air Base. P-51. Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Redesignated 191st Fighter Squadron. 408th Fighter Squadron.
48th Armored Division – "Hurricane". 49th Armored Division – "Lone Star"; referring to its status as a Texas National Guard formation, after the state's nickname. 50th Armored Division – "Jersey Blues"; referring to the fact that it was a New Jersey National Guard unit. This is today's 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
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.
Nickname Command Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron: Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 595 C2G: 25 September 1917 Offutt AFB, Nebraska: E-4 [116] 12th Airborne Command and Control Squadron: Air Combat Command: Fifteenth Air Force: 461 ACW: 18 October 1942 Robins AFB ...
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an increasingly important part of modern warfare, a philosophical rift developed between more traditional ground-based army personnel and those who felt that aircraft were ...
B-52B/C/D/E. Inactivated 1982 / Redesignated 2d Strategic Squadron (RAF Mildenhall) (KC-135's) 1 January 1988 – 31 March 1992. 3d Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) Rio Hato Army Air Base. B-24. Redesignated 129th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (Medium, Photographic) (1951) 4th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) RAF Mendlesham. B-24.
United States Army Air Forces. The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) [1] was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States [2] during and immediately after World War II (1941–1945). It was created on 20 June 1941 as successor to the ...