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The 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron is part of the 595th Command and Control Group at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. It operates the Boeing E-4 aircraft conducting airborne command and control missions.

The squadron is one of the oldest in the United States Air Force, its origins dating to 25 September 1917, when it was organized at Fort Omaha, Nebraska. It served overseas in France as part of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. The squadron saw combat during World War II, and became part of the Strategic Air Command during the Cold War.

History

World War and Balloon School

The first predecessor of the squadron was organized at Fort Omaha Nebraska in September 1917 as Company A, 2d Balloon Squadron. Two months later it departed for overseas service on the Western Front (World War I), arriving in France in January 1918. It entered combat as an observation unit with the French Eighth Army on 19 April 1918, operating observation balloons over the front lines. Once forces of the American Expeditionary Forces, had built up, it continued to operate as the 1st Balloon Company with the American I Corps until 17 October 1918. Following the end of the war, it served with III Corps as part of the occupation forces until April 1919.[1]

Interwar years

In the spring of 1919, the squadron returned to the United States and was stationed at Ross Field, California as part of the Air Service Balloon School.[1] In June 1922, the Balloon School moved to Scott Field, Illinois and Ross Field was closed as a military installation. The squadron was inactivated[1] with the closure of Ross.

The second predecessor of the squadron, also designated the 1st Balloon Company, was activated at Scott in May 1929. After a brief period of training with the 21st Airship Group at Scott, it moved to Post Field, located on Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where it was assigned to the Field Artillery School.[1] It trained and conducted exercises with the school. At the beginning of World War II, it operated barrage balloons, but that mission was assigned to the coast artillery and the squadron was disbanded two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

World War II

The third predecessor of the squadron was activated in April 1942 at Long Beach Army Air Base as the 1st Air Corps Ferrying Squadron, the location of a Douglas Aircraft Company manufacturing plant. It ferried aircraft from the Douglas factory and other factories in the Western Procurement District to overseas departure points.[1] However, the Army Air Forces was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were not well adapted to the training and logistics support mission. Accordingly, it adopted a more functional system in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit.[2] In March 1944, Air Transport Command units assigned to the 6th Ferrying Group were combined into the 556th AAF Base Unit.

Airborne command and control

On 1 June 1962, Headquarters Command organized the 1000th Airborne Command Control Squadron at Andrews Air Force Base to operate the National Emergency Airborne Command Post and assigned it to the 1001st Air Base Wing.[3][4] By 1965, the squadron was operating Boeing EC-135 aircraft to support this mission.[5] On 1 July 1969, the 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron was activated and assumed the mission, personnel and equipment of the 1000th Squadron.[note 1]

In 1974, the squadron began to replace its EC-135s with more capable Boeing E-4s, completing the upgrade the following year. In November 1975, the squadron was reassigned from Andrews' 1st Composite Wing to the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. On 1 July 1977, it moved to join the 55th Wing at Offutt[note 2][1] On 1 October 2016, the unit was reassigned to the newly activated 595th Command and Control Group under the control of Air Force Global Strike Command.[6]

Lineage and assignments

Consolidation

The 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron represents the consolidation of ultimately four different units, done in two consolidations. The first involved consolidating the 1st Airship and 1st Balloon Companies in 1929 into what would become the 1st Balloon Squadron. This was then consolidated with the 1st Ferrying Squadron and 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron in 1985 to form the current unit.

Current unit Units consolidated on 19 September 1985 Units consolidated on 31 July 1929
1st Airborne Command Control Squadron 1st Balloon Squadron 1st Airship Company
1st Balloon Company
1st Ferrying Squadron
1st Airborne Command Control Squadron

1st Airship Company

Date Designation Assignment Station Equipment Notes
Шаблон:Date Company A, 2d Balloon Squadron Fort Omaha, Nebraska organized[1]
Шаблон:Date Garden City, New York [1]
Шаблон:Date transit [1]
Шаблон:Date Gironde, France Caquot Type R observation balloon [1]
Шаблон:Date Brouville, France [1]
Шаблон:Date 1st Balloon Company [1]
Шаблон:Date Balloon Wing, I Army Corps [1]
Шаблон:Date Les Ecoliers, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Épaux-Bézu, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Épieds, Aisne, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Artois Ferme, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Mareuil-en-Dole, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Coucelles-sur-Vesle, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Tremblecourt, France [1]
Шаблон:Date La Queue de Theinard, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Bois de Brule, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Varennes-en-Argonne, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Balloon Group, I Army Corps [1]
Шаблон:Date Chatel-Chehery, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Auzeville-en-Argonne, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Balloon Group, III Army Corps [1]
Шаблон:Date Mercy-le-Bas, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Euren, Germany [1]
Шаблон:Date Niederberg, Germany [1]
Шаблон:Date Colombey-les-Belles, France [1]
Шаблон:Date St. Nazaire, France [1]
Шаблон:Date Camp Lee, Virginia [1]
Шаблон:Date Air Service Balloon Observers School Ross Field, California [1]
Шаблон:Date Ninth Corps Area [1]
Шаблон:Date inactive [1]
Шаблон:Date 1st Airship Company [1]
Шаблон:Date consolidated into 1st Balloon Company [1]

1st Balloon Squadron

Date Designation Assignment Station Equipment Notes
Шаблон:Date 1st Balloon Company inactive [1]
Шаблон:Date Sixth Corps Area Scott Field, Illinois A-6 & A-7 spherical balloon
C-3 observation balloon
[1]
Шаблон:Date Field Artillery School [1]
Шаблон:Date Post Field, Oklahoma [1]
Шаблон:Date 1st Balloon Squadron [1]
1937 A-6 & A-7 spherical balloon
C-3 & C-6 observation balloon
[1]
1939 A-6 & A-7 spherical balloon
C-3 & C-6 observation balloon
D-2 barrage balloon
[1]
1940 A-6 & A-7 spherical balloon
C-6 observation balloon
D-3, D-4, D-5, & D-6 barrage balloon
[1]
Шаблон:Date III Air Support Command [1]
Шаблон:Date disbanded [1]
Шаблон:Date reconstituted and consolidated into 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron [1]

1st Ferrying Squadron

Date Designation Assignment Station Equipment Notes
Шаблон:Date 1st Air Corps Ferrying Squadron inactive [1]
Шаблон:Date 6th Ferrying Group Long Beach, California various aircraft [1]
Шаблон:Date 1st Ferrying Squadron [1]
Шаблон:Date disbanded [1]
Шаблон:Date reconstituted and consolidated into the 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron [1]

1st Airborne Command Control Squadron

Date Designation Assignment Station Equipment Notes
Шаблон:Date 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron inactive [1]
Шаблон:Date 1st Composite Wing Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland EC-135J [1]
Шаблон:Date E-4A, EC-135J [1][7]
Шаблон:Date 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing [1]
1976 E-4A [1]
Шаблон:Date Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska [1]
Шаблон:Date E-4A/B [7]
Шаблон:Date E-4B [7]
Шаблон:Date 55th Operations Group [1]
Шаблон:Date 595th Command and Control Group [1]

References

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Notes

Explanatory notes

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Citations

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Bibliography

Шаблон:Air Force Historical Research Agency

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