List of United States Air Force weather squadrons
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The United States Air Force
has several types of weather squadrons.
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
has several types of weather squadrons.
Weather Squadrons
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| 1st Weather Squadron 1st Weather Squadron The United States Air Force's 1st Weather Squadron is a weather unit located at Fort Lewis, Washington.... |
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Fort Lewis Fort Lewis Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a United States military facility located south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Joint Base Garrison, Joint Base Lewis-McChord.... |
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| 2d Weather Squadron 2nd Weather Squadron The 2nd Weather Squadron , based out of Offutt Air Force Base, NE, continuously supports Joint warfighters and DoD decision-makers, including the intelligence community and space operators with accurate, relevant, timely and specialized global terrestrial and space observations, analyses, forecasts... |
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| 3d Weather Squadron 3d Weather Squadron The 3rd Weather Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force. It was formed at Barksdale Field , Louisiana, on 24 June 1937, as part of the Signal Corps. The 3rd was one of three original squadrons that eventually transferred from the Signal Corps to the Air Corps... |
Fort Hood | ||
| 4th Weather Squadron | Maxwell AFB | ||
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| 6th Weather Squadron (Mobile) | Tinker AFB | ||
| 7th Weather Squadron 7th Weather Squadron 7th Weather Squadron The 7th Weather Squadron , based out of Heidelberg, Germany, is the premier combat weather squadron providing the highest quality weather intelligence to supported warfighters in the United States European Command and abroad.- Mission :Enhance USEUCOM land component... |
Heidelberg Heidelberg -Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of... |
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| 9th Weather Squadron 9th Operational Weather Squadron The 9th Operational Weather Squadron , based out of Shaw AFB, SC, was the Squadron responsible for weather prediction in the Southeastern United States. It was split from the 28th Operational Weather Squadron in 2006... |
Shaw AFB | Reactivated as 9th Operational Weather Squadron 9th Operational Weather Squadron The 9th Operational Weather Squadron , based out of Shaw AFB, SC, was the Squadron responsible for weather prediction in the Southeastern United States. It was split from the 28th Operational Weather Squadron in 2006... |
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| 10th Weather Squadron | Hurlburt Field Hurlburt Field Hurlburt Field is a U.S. Air Force installation located in Okaloosa County, Florida, immediately west of the Town of Mary Esther. It is part of the greater Eglin Air Force Base reservation, and is home to Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command , the 1st Special Operations Wing , the... |
Redesignated 10th Combat Weather Squadron on April 1, 1996 | |
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| 14th Weather Squadron 14th Weather Squadron The 14th Weather Squadron is a Geographically Separate Unit located in the Veach-Baley Federal Complex in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. It has a military applied climatology mission... |
Asheville, North Carolina Asheville, North Carolina Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina. The City is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center , which is the world's largest active... |
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| 16th Weather Squadron | Offutt AFB | ||
| 17th Weather Squadron 17th Operational Weather Squadron The 17th Operational Weather Squadron is a unit of the military of the United States. Based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, it covers weather in largest geographical area in the world.-Mission:... |
Hickam AFB | Redesignated 17 OWS 17th Operational Weather Squadron The 17th Operational Weather Squadron is a unit of the military of the United States. Based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, it covers weather in largest geographical area in the world.-Mission:... |
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| 18th Weather Squadron | Special Operations Weather | ||
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| 21st Weather Squadron | Sembach AB | ||
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| 30th Weather Squadron | Vandenberg AFB, California | ||
| 31st Weather Squadron | former HQ Sembach AB | USAFE stations under 2nd Weather Wing | |
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| 45th Weather Squadron 45th Weather Squadron 45th Weather Squadron , 45th Operations Group , 45th Space Wing, at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida performs weather assessments for air and space operations; specifically, weather observations, forecasts, advisories and warnings... |
Patrick AFB, Florida | Performs weather assessments for Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... launches at Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program... |
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| 46th Weather Squadron | Eglin AFB, Florida | ||
| 88th Weather Squadron | Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio | ||
| 607th Weather Squadron 607th Weather Squadron The 607th Weather Squadron of the U.S. Air Force has overall responsibility for planning, providing, and/or arranging weather support for the United States Army during armistice conditions in Korea... |
Yongsan Garrison Yongsan Garrison United States Army Garrison Yongsan is located in Seoul, South Korea and is home to the headquarters for the U.S. military presence in Korea, known as United States Forces Korea , as well as the headquarters for the Eighth United States Army and Installation Management Command Korea Region... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south... |
Operational Weather Squadrons
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| 9th Operational Weather Squadron 9th Operational Weather Squadron The 9th Operational Weather Squadron , based out of Shaw AFB, SC, was the Squadron responsible for weather prediction in the Southeastern United States. It was split from the 28th Operational Weather Squadron in 2006... |
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Shaw AFB Shaw Air Force Base Shaw Air Force Base is a United States Military facility located approximately west-northwest of Sumter, South Carolina. It is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command... |
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| 11th Operational Weather Squadron 11th Operational Weather Squadron The 11th Operational Weather Squadron based out of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, is responsible for forecasting Alaska’s weather and analyzing Alaska's climate.-Mission:... |
Elmendorf AFB Elmendorf Air Force Base Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is a United States military facility adjacent to Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. It is an amalgamation of the former United States Air Force Elmendorf Air Force Base and the United States Army Fort Richardson, which were merged in 2010.-Overview:The... |
Deactivated on June 13, 2008; operations consolidated with 17th OWS 17th Operational Weather Squadron The 17th Operational Weather Squadron is a unit of the military of the United States. Based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, it covers weather in largest geographical area in the world.-Mission:... |
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| 15th Operational Weather Squadron 15th Operational Weather Squadron The 15th Operational Weather Squadron , based out of Scott Air Force Base, IL, is the largest Operational Weather Squadron in the Continental United States that does not have an overseas mission.-Mission statement:... |
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Scott AFB Scott Air Force Base Scott Air Force Base is a base of the United States Air Force in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville.-Overview:The base is named after Corporal Frank S. Scott, the first enlisted person to be killed in an aviation crash... |
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| 17th Operational Weather Squadron 17th Operational Weather Squadron The 17th Operational Weather Squadron is a unit of the military of the United States. Based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, it covers weather in largest geographical area in the world.-Mission:... |
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Hickam AFB Hickam Air Force Base Hickam Field, re-named Hickam Air Force Base in 1948, was a United States Air Force facility now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam.- History :... |
"Geckos" | |
| 20th Operational Weather Squadron 20th Operational Weather Squadron The 20th Operational Weather Squadron which provided detailed forecasts for the Air Force and Army in Japan and South Korea, is now inactive following the transfer of its mission to Hickam Field, Hawaii on April 17, 2006.-Mission:... |
Yokota AB Yokota Air Base , is a United States Air Force base in the city of Fussa, one of 26 cities in the Tama Area, or Western Tokyo.The base houses 14,000 personnel. The base occupies a total area of and has a runway... |
"Samurais" | Inactivated April 2006 | |
| 21st Operational Weather Squadron 21st Operational Weather Squadron The 21st Operational Weather Squadron provides weather support for all US Air Force and Army in the European Command and is based at Sembach Kaserne, Germany, they are commonly referred to as USAFE Operational Weather Squadron.-Mission:... |
Sembach AB | "Knights" | ||
| 25th Operational Weather Squadron 25th Operational Weather Squadron The 25th Operational Weather Squadron , based out of Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, is the Squadron responsible for the Western United States; the current states in the Area of Responsibility are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and... |
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Davis-Monthan AFB Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, and approximately south-southeast of downtown, Tucson, Arizona.... |
"Bobcats" | |
| 26th Operational Weather Squadron 26th Operational Weather Squadron The 26th Operational Weather Squadron , based out of Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, is the US Air Force meteorological squadron responsible for the Southeastern United States... |
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Barksdale AFB Barksdale Air Force Base Barksdale Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately east-southeast of Bossier City, Louisiana.The host unit at Barksdale is the 2d Bomb Wing , the oldest Bomb Wing in the Air Force. It is assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command's Eighth Air Force... |
"Tornado Alley Warriors" | |
| 28th Operational Weather Squadron 28th Operational Weather Squadron The 28th Operational Weather Squadron , is an operational weather squadron responsible for supporting USCENTCOM operations.-Mission:... |
Shaw AFB Shaw Air Force Base Shaw Air Force Base is a United States Military facility located approximately west-northwest of Sumter, South Carolina. It is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command... |
"Owls" |
Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons
Miscellaneous Weather Squadrons
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| 10th Combat Weather Squadron | |||
| 20th Air Weather Squadron | |||
| 54th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
| 55th Space Weather Squadron | |||
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| 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
| 59th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron | |||
| 2150th Air Weather Squadron | |||