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1st Air Support Operations Group

Field	Value
unit_name	1st Air Support Operations Group
image	Defense.gov News Photo 110814-F-MQ656-236 - U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Michael Pincheira a joint tactical air controller with the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron provides security.jpg
image_size	300px
caption	A group joint tactical air controller provides security during a training exercise at Fort Irwin.
dates	1942–1945; 1992–present
country
branch
type	Group
role	Control of close air support
command_structure	Pacific Air Forces
garrison	Joint Base Lewis-McChord
motto	Ready First
battles	CBI Theater
identification_symbol	[[File:1st Air Support Operations Group.PNG	1st Air Support Operations Group	165px]]
identification_symbol_label	1st Air Support Operations Group emblem

The United States Air Force's 1st Air Support Operations Group is a combat support unit located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. The group provides tactical command and control of airpower assets to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and Joint Forces Land Component Commander for combat operations.

The group was reconstituted, redesignated, and activated in its current role in June 1992. After a minor name change (from Air Support Group to Air Support Operations Group) in July 1994, its current insignia was approved on 15 September 1997.

Mission

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. The 1st Weather Squadron provides operational and staff weather services for Army combat units across the Pacific Command area of responsibility. In addition, they train and maintain combat readiness for worldwide battlefield weather deployments. The groups Air Liaison Officers and Joint Terminal Attack Controllers advise Army commanders and staffs on all aspects of joint airpower employment, integrating and synchronizing close air support, air mobility, and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities into strategy, plans, and operations.

Prior to the reformation of the Special Operations Weather career field into the new Special Reconnaissance field, the group operated a small contingent of special operations weather technician airmen.

The group is assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The group is stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

Lineage

Constituted as the 1st Communications Squadron, Air Support on 31 March 1942 : Activated on 23 April 1942 : Redesignated 1st Air Support Communication Squadron on 11 January 1943 : Redesignated 1st Tactical Air Communications Squadron on 1 April 1944 : Inactivated on 29 October 1945 : Disbanded on 8 October 1948
Reconstituted, redesignated 1st Air Support Group and activated on 15 June 1992 : Redesignated 1st Air Support Operations Group on 1 July 1994

Assignments

Sixth Air Force, 23 April 1942 (attached to 72nd Observation Group)
Third Air Force, 10 April 1943
III Ground Air Support Command (later III Air Support Command, III Reconnaissance) Command), c. 19 May 1943 (attached to I Tactical Air Division after c. 8 September 1943)
I Tactical Air Division, 3 November 1943
Tenth Air Force, 31 March 1944
Fourteenth Air Force, 19 April 1945 (attached to XIV Air Force Tactical Air Command [Provisional ] after 21 June 1945)
Tenth Air Force, 1 August 1945
Fourteenth Air Force, 3 September 1945 – unknown
355th Wing, 15 June 1992
Twelfth Air Force, 1 February 1994
Thirteenth Air Force, 1 October 2008
354th Fighter Wing, 28 September 2012 – present

Stations

Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone, 23 April 1942
Birmingham Army Air Base, Alabama, Apr 1943
Lebanon Army Air Field, Tennessee, 8 September 1943
Morris Field, North Carolina, 28 November 1943 – 11 February 1944
Bombay, India, 31 March 1944
Dinjan, India, 23 April 1944
Myitkyina, Burma, c. 23 October 1944
Bhamo, Burma, 15 February 1945
Lüliang, China, 24 April – September 1945
Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 28-29 October 1945
Fort Lewis (later became part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord), Washington, 15 June 1992 – present

Components

1st Weather Squadron Fort Lewis, Washington
3d Air Support Operations Squadron, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska
5th Air Support Operations Squadron McChord Air Force Base, Washington
25th Air Support Operations Squadron Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii

References

(May 20, 2019). "Factsheet 1 Air Support Operations Group (ACC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency.
[https://www.army.mil/article/59902/ "We are the Corps' Airmen"]
(3 May 2013). "1st Air Support Operations Group". Eielson Air Force Base.
(13 May 2019). "Spec ops weathermen get name change, new mission to better fight great powers".

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