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22d Air Defense Missile Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	22d Air Defense Missile Squadron
image	Langley AFB BOMARC site.jpg
image_size	300
caption	Langley BOMARC site, 1965
dates	1959-1972
country
branch
type	Squadron
role	Air defense
decorations	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
identification_symbol	[[File:22d Air Defense Missile Squadron - ADC - Emblem.png	165px]]
identification_symbol_label	Patch with 22d Air Defense Missile Squadron emblem

The 22d Air Defense Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division of Aerospace Defense Command, stationed near Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, where it was inactivated on 31 October 1972. The squadron was activated in 1959 and equipped with BOMARC missiles for the air defense of the area near its base.

History

A 1965 photo of a squadron BOMARC missile elevated in its shelter

The squadron was activated at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia on 1 September 1959 as the 22d Air Defense Missile Squadron (BOMARC) and stood alert during the Cold War. It was equipped with IM-99A (later CIM-10) BOMARC surface to air antiaircraft missiles. It became operational with the IM-99A in September 1960, and upgraded to the IM-99B in October 1961. The squadron was tied into the Washington Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) direction center which used analog computers to process information from ground radars, picket ships and airborne aircraft to accelerate the display of tracking data at the direction center to quickly direct the missile battery to engage hostile aircraft. The 22d became nonoperational o 1 October 1972 and was inactivated on 31 October 1972.

The BOMARC missile site was located 3 mi west-northwest of Langley at . Although geographically separated from the base, it received administrative and logistical support from Langley.

Lineage

Constituted as the 22d Air Defense Missile Squadron on 10 July 1959 : Activated on 1 September 1959 : Inactivated on 31 October 1972

Assignments

Washington Air Defense Sector, 1 September 1959
33d Air Division, 1 April 1966
20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 31 October 1972

Awards

[[File:Air_Force_Outstanding_Unit_Award_Streamer.jpg|200px]]
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award : 1 September 1963 – 28 February 1965

References

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References

Cornett & Johnson, p. 150
Air Defense Command Historical Data 1946-1973, Air Defense Command Office of History, Vol. II, p. 157
Winkler & Webster, p. 39
Winkler & Webster, p. 3
AF Pamphlet 900-2, 15 June 1971, p. 139

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