13th Air Support Operations Squadron

June 2017 13th Air Support Operations Squadron center|60px 161109-F-WR604-063 (30882239362).jpg 300px Squadron airmen approach a helicopter for extraction following a joint exercise with the 4th Infantry Division 1943–1944; 1994-present USA Air Support Operations (to 4th Infantry Division Air Combat Command Fort Carson, Colorado On Time On Target Iraq War http://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/432437/13-air-support-operations-squadron-acc/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161125113727/http://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/432437/13-air-support-operations-squadron-acc/ dead 25 November 2016 Dollman TSG David Factsheet 13 Air Support Operations Squadron (ACC) March 27, 2018 Air Force Historical Research Agency May 28, 2018 Air Force Meritorious Unit AwardAir Force Outstanding Unit Award 165px 13th Air Support Operations Squadron emblem (approved 29 May 1996) The United States Air Force's 13th Air Support Operations Squadron is a combat support unit located at Fort Carson, Colorado. The squadron provides tactical command and control of close air support assets to US Army ground commanders of the 4th Infantry Division during combat operations. Mission The squadron's mission is to provide mission ready airmen to advise, integrate & control air and space power in support of the 4th Infantry Division; to train, deploy, & focus combat airpower and integrated weather operations for the joint force commander alongside III Corps or a supported land force commander. http://www.carson.army.mil/units/13asos.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180413210059/http://www.carson.army.mil/units/13asos.html dead 13 April 2018 No byline Fort Carson: Units: 13th Air Support Operations Squadron Fort Carson Public Affairs May 28, 2018 History World War II The squadron was first activated in January 1943 at Birmingham Army Air Base, Alabama, where it trained with III Air Support Command for the next six months. In June, it moved to Thermal Army Air Field, California, where it was assigned to IV Air Support Command. In California, it helped train ground units and participated in exercises and maneuvers with the Desert Training Center.See Maurer, Combat Units, p. 432. (activities of I Tactical Air Division). http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/201/236.xml Abstract, History 4 Air Support Command Sep 1941 – Sep 1943 Air Force History Index July 21, 2015 By 1944, the need for ground forces to train for desert warfare had been reduced. Also, the Army Air Forces found that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving not well adapted to the training mission and decided to replace them with a more functional system in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit.Goss, p. 75 As a result, the squadron, now the 13th Tactical Air Communications Squadron, was disbanded in April 1944. Current operations The squadron was redesignated the 13th Air Support Operations Squadron and activated on 1 July 1994 at Fort Carson, Colorado. Lineage Constituted as the 13th Air Support Control Squadron on 11 January 1943Dollman says "Air Support Operations Squadron", but this designation was not used during World War II. Activated on 15 January 1943 Redesignated 13th Tactical Air Communications Squadron on 29 February 1944 Disbanded on 15 April 1944 Reconstituted and redesignated 13th Air Support Operations Squadron on 24 June 1994 Activated on 1 July 1994Lineage in Dollman, except as noted. Assignments III Air Support Command, 15 January 1943 IV Air Support Command (later III Tactical Air Division, I Tactical Air Division), 7 June 1943 – 15 April 1944 3d Air Support Operations Group, 1 July 1994 – present Stations Birmingham Army Air Base, Alabama, 15 January 1943 Thermal Army Air Field, California, 7 June 1943 Camp Young, California, 15 September 1943 Thermal Army Air Field, California, 14 March 1944 – 15 April 1944 Fort Carson, Colorado, 1 July 1994 – present Decorations Air Force Meritorious Unit Award 1 June 2002 – 31 May 2004 Air Force Outstanding Unit Award 1 July 1994 – 31 May 1996 1 June 1998 – 31 May 2000 1 June 2000 – 31 May 2002 References Notes Explanatory notes note Citations 30em Bibliography Craven, Wesley F. Cate, James L. http://media.defense.gov/2010/Nov/05/2001329891/-1/-1/0/AFD-101105-019.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20161220184358/http://media.defense.gov/2010/Nov/05/2001329891/-1/-1/0/AFD-101105-019.pdf dead 20 December 2016 December 17, 2016 The Army Air Forces in World War II VI, Men & Planes 1955 University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL 704158 48003657 Goss William A. Craven, Wesley F. Cate, James L. https://media.defense.gov/2010/Nov/05/2001329890/-1/-1/0/AFD-101105-012.pdf December 17, 2016 The Army Air Forces in World War II VI, Men & Planes 1955 University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL 704158 48003657 The Organization and its Responsibilities, Chapter 2 The AAF Maurer, Maurer Air Force Combat Units of World War II 1961 http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180735/http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf dead 20 December 2016 December 17, 2016 reprint 1983 Office of Air Force History Washington, DC 0-912799-02-1 61060979 External links 13th Air Support Operations Squadron official homepage Globalsecurity.org: 13th Air Support Operations Squadron Category:Military units and formations in Colorado Air Support Operations 0013 Category:Military units and formations established in 1994