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32d Air Operations Group
Active1941 - Present
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited States Air Force
Garrison/HQKapaun Air Station, Germany

The 32d Air Operations Group is a unit of the United States Air Force currently assigned to the USAFE Theater Air and Space-operations Center, Kapaun Air Station, Germany

Mission

The USAFE Theater Air and Space-operations Center is an operational echelon which functions to consolidate operational command and control of joint space forces, similar to the functioning of a traditional Air Operations Center, but is classed, by AF doctrine, as a "Functional AOC." The USAFE TASOC, supplies the Joint Functional Component Command for Space operations expertise to create space situational awareness and command and control space forces. All of these efforts are in continuous around-the-clock support of global and theater operations.

History

Lineage

  • Constituted as 32d Pursuit Group on 22 Nov 1940
Activated in Panama on 1 Jan 1941
Redesignated: 32d Fighter Group in May 1942
Disbanded: on Nov 1943.
  • Reconstituted and redesignated 32d Fighter Group (Air Defense), on 11 Dec 1956
Activated on 8 Feb 1957
Discontinued and inactivated 1 Feb 1961
  • Consolidated with 32d Fighter Wing (Air Defense), 31 Jan 1984
Established as: 32d Composite Wing, 10 Aug 1948
Activated: 10 Aug 1948
Inactivated: 1 April 1949
Redesignated as: 32d Fighter Wing (Air Defense), 28 Dec 1960
Activated on: 28 Dec 1960
Discontinued and Inactivated on: 1 Jul 1962
Redesignated: 32d Tactical Fighter Wing and activated, 1 Apr 1964
Inactivated on: 25 July 1964
  • Consolidated group redesignated: 32d Tactical Fighter Wing, on 31 Jan 1984
Activated as: 32d Tactical Fighter Group on 16 Nov 1989
Inactivated on: 1 Oct 1994
  • Redesignated and reactivated as: 32d Air Operations Group, 22 May 2003-Present

Assignments

Stations

Units

Aircraft

History

Convair F-106A Delta Dart Serial 56-460 of the 5th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Minot AFB. Today, this aircraft is on static display at Minot.

Constituted as 32d Pursuit Group on 22 Nov 1940. Activated in Panama on 1 Jan 1941. Redesignated 32d Fighter Group in May 1942. Trained and served as part of the defense force for the Panama Canal. Disbanded in the Canal Zone on 1 Nov 1943.

Replaced 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, in Aug 1948. Provided photographic reconnaissance and search and rescue support, 1948-1949.

Provided air defense for a segment of the north-central United States, 1961-1962.

Was being organized as a tactical fighter wing when replaced by 8th Tactical Fighter Wing in 1964.

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Slobberin Wolfhounds (http://www.slobberinwolfhounds.com)

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