The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons.

Weather Squadrons

SquadronShieldLocationNotes
1st Combat Weather Squadron
Fort Lewis
2d Weather Squadron
Offutt AFB
3rd Combat Weather Squadron
Fort CavazosAligned with the III Corps, (US Army)
4th Weather Squadron
Maxwell AFB
5th Weather SquadronUnits active during Vietnam War
6th Weather Squadron (Mobile)Tinker AFB
7th Combat Weather Squadron &

7th Expeditionary Combat Weather Squadron

Lucius D. Clay Kaserne
8th Weather Squadron
9th Weather Squadron
Shaw AFBReactivated as 9th Operational Weather Squadron
10th Weather Squadron
Hurlburt FieldRedesignated 10th Combat Weather Squadron on 1 April 1996; inactivated 16 May 2014[1]
11th Weather Squadron
12th Weather Squadron
13th Weather Squadron
14th Weather Squadron
Asheville, North Carolina
15th Weather Squadron
16th Weather SquadronOffutt AFB
17th Weather SquadronHickam AFBRedesignated 17 OWS
18th Combat Weather SquadronFort Liberty, North CarolinaThe One-Eight. Aligned with the XVIII Airborne Corps. (US Army)
Detachment 1Fort Drum, NY
Detachment 2Fort Polk, LA
Detachment 3Hunter Army Airfield, GA
Detachment 4Fort Campbell, KY
Operating Location - BFort Belvoir, VA
Operating Location - CFort Rucker, AL
Operating Location - QFort Knox, KY
19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron[2]
AfghanistanSee 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group
20th Weather Squadron
21st Weather Squadron
Kapaun Air Station
23d Weather Squadron
24th Weather SquadronWebb AFB (closed)
25th Weather Squadron
26th Weather Squadron
Barksdale AFB
28th Weather Squadron
29th Weather Squadron
30th Weather Squadron
Vandenberg AFB, CaliforniaHQ at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam during war
31st Weather Squadron
former Sembach ABUSAFE stations under 2nd Weather Wing
32d Weather Squadron
33d Weather Squadron
35th Weather Squadron
45th Weather Squadron
Patrick Space Force BasePerforms weather assessments for rocket launches at
Kennedy Space Center
46th Weather Squadron
Eglin AFB, Florida
88th Weather Squadron
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
607th Weather Squadron
Camp Humphreys, South Korea

Operational Weather Squadrons

SquadronShieldLocationNicknameNotes
9th Operational Weather SquadronShaw AFBThe 9 OWS inactivated on 31 May 2008 and merged with the 26th Operational Weather Squadron located on Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.
11th Operational Weather SquadronElmendorf AFBInactivated on 13 June 2008; operations consolidated with 17th OWS
15th Operational Weather SquadronScott AFB"Thunderbolts"
17th Operational Weather SquadronHickam AFB"Geckos"
20th Operational Weather SquadronYokota AB"Samurais"Inactivated April 2006; operations consolidated with 17th OWS[3]
21st Operational Weather SquadronKapaun Air Station"Knights"
25th Operational Weather SquadronDavis–Monthan AFB"Bobcats"
26th Operational Weather SquadronBarksdale AFB"Bayou Bandits"
28th Operational Weather SquadronShaw AFB"Cobras"

Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons

Miscellaneous Weather Squadrons

SquadronShieldLocationNotes
Air Force Operations GroupPentagon
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

  1. "10th CWS deactivates [sic] at Hurlburt Field".
  2. Factsheet: 19 Expeditionary Weather Squadron Archived 14 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, AFHRA
  3. 20 OWS History Page (w1vxa.us)
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