List of United States Air Force weather squadrons
The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons.
Weather Squadrons[]
Squadron | Shield | Location | Notes |
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1st Weather Squadron | Fort Lewis | ||
2d Weather Squadron | Offutt AFB | ||
Fort Hood | Aligned with the III Corps, (US Army) | ||
Maxwell AFB | |||
Units active during Vietnam War | |||
Tinker AFB | |||
7th Combat Weather Squadron | Lucius D. Clay Kaserne | ||
9th Weather Squadron | Shaw AFB | Reactivated as 9th Operational Weather Squadron | |
Hurlburt Field | Redesignated on 1 April 1996; inactivated 16 May 2014[1] | ||
11th Weather Squadron | |||
14th Weather Squadron | Asheville, North Carolina | ||
Offutt AFB | |||
17th Weather Squadron | Hickam AFB | Redesignated 17 OWS | |
Fort Bragg, North Carolina | The One-Eight. Aligned with the XVIII Airborne Corps. (US Army) | ||
19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron[2] | Afghanistan | See 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group | |
20th Weather Squadron | |||
Kapaun Air Station | |||
23d Weather Squadron | |||
Webb AFB (closed) | |||
25th Weather Squadron | |||
26th Weather Squadron | Barksdale AFB | ||
28th Weather Squadron | |||
30th Weather Squadron | Vandenberg AFB, California | HQ at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam during war | |
former Sembach AB | USAFE stations under 2nd Weather Wing | ||
45th Weather Squadron | Patrick Space Force Base | Performs weather assessments for rocket launches at Kennedy Space Center | |
Eglin AFB, Florida | |||
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio | |||
607th Weather Squadron | Camp Humphreys, South Korea |
Operational Weather Squadrons[]
Squadron | Shield | Location | Nickname | Notes |
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9th Operational Weather Squadron | Shaw AFB | The 9 OWS inactivated on 31 May 2008 and merged with the 26th Operational Weather Squadron located on Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. | ||
11th Operational Weather Squadron | Elmendorf AFB | Inactivated on 13 June 2008; operations consolidated with 17th OWS | ||
15th Operational Weather Squadron | Scott AFB | "Thunderbolts" | ||
17th Operational Weather Squadron | Hickam AFB | "Geckos" | ||
20th Operational Weather Squadron | Yokota AB | "Samurais" | Inactivated April 2006; operations consolidated with 17th OWS[3] | |
21st Operational Weather Squadron | Kapaun Air Station | "Knights" | ||
25th Operational Weather Squadron | Davis–Monthan AFB | "Bobcats" | ||
26th Operational Weather Squadron | Barksdale AFB | "Bayou Bandits" | ||
28th Operational Weather Squadron | Shaw AFB | "Cobras" |
Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons[]
Miscellaneous Weather Squadrons[]
Squadron | Shield | Location | Notes |
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Pentagon | |||
55th Space Weather Squadron | |||
56th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
57th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "10th CWS deactivates at Hurlburt Field".
- ^ Factsheet: 19 Expeditionary Weather Squadron Archived 14 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, AFHRA
- ^ 20 OWS History Page (w1vxa.us)[permanent dead link]
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