List of United States Air Force weather squadrons
The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons.
Weather Squadrons
Squadron | Shield | Location | Note |
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1st Weather Squadron | | Fort Lewis | |
2d Weather Squadron | Offutt AFB | ||
3d Weather Squadron | Fort Hood | Aligned with the III Corps, (US Army). Usually recognized as being less tactically proficient than the 18th Weather Squadron. | |
4th Weather Squadron | Maxwell AFB | ||
5th Weather Squadron | Units active during Vietnam War | ||
6th Weather Squadron (Mobile) | Tinker AFB | ||
7th Weather Squadron | Lucius D. Clay Kaserne | ||
8th Weather Squadron | |||
9th Weather Squadron | Shaw AFB | Reactivated as 9th Operational Weather Squadron | |
10th Weather Squadron | Hurlburt Field | Redesignated 10th Combat Weather Squadron on April 1, 1996 | |
11th Weather Squadron | |||
12th Weather Squadron | |||
13th Weather Squadron | |||
14th Weather Squadron | Asheville, North Carolina | ||
15th Weather Squadron | |||
16th Weather Squadron | Offutt AFB | ||
17th Weather Squadron | Hickam AFB | Redesignated 17 OWS | |
18th Weather Squadron | Fort Bragg, North Carolina | The One-Eight. Aligned with the XVIII Airborne Corps, (US Army) | |
19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron[1] | | Afghanistan | See 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group |
20th Weather Squadron | |||
21st Weather Squadron | Kapaun Air Station | ||
23d Weather Squadron | |||
24th Weather Squadron | Webb AFB, Big Spring Texas (closed) | ||
25th Weather Squadron | |||
26th Weather Squadron | Barksdale AFB | ||
28th Weather Squadron | |||
29th Weather Squadron | |||
30th Weather Squadron | Vandenberg AFB, California | HQ at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam during war | |
31st Weather Squadron | former HQ Sembach AB | USAFE stations under 2nd Weather Wing | |
32d Weather Squadron | |||
33d Weather Squadron | |||
35th Weather Squadron | |||
45th Weather Squadron | Patrick AFB, Florida | Performs weather assessments for Shuttle launches at Kennedy Space Center | |
46th Weather Squadron | Eglin AFB, Florida | ||
88th Weather Squadron | Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio | ||
607th Weather Squadron | Yongsan Garrison, South Korea |
Operational Weather Squadrons
Squadron | Shield | Location | Nickname | Note |
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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 [2] | |
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 | "Owls" |
Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons
Miscellaneous Weather Squadrons
Squadron | Shield | Location | Note |
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10th Combat Weather Squadron | |||
20th Air Weather Squadron | |||
54th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
55th Space Weather Squadron | |||
56th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
57th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
59th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
2150th Air Weather Squadron | |||
See also
References
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