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During the
General McPeak era (1990 - 1994) of the Air Force, there were many organizational and unit name changes in the USAF. For one of those changes, an Air Force board decided to transfer the 7 ACCS's planes, personnel, etc. from Keesler AFB to Davis-Monthan AFB in order to consolidate the EC-130s. The
41st Electronic Combat Squadron (ECS) and the
43 ECS were already at Davis-Monthan AFB flying the Compass Call electronic warfare mission, so this Air Force board decided to re-designate the squadron flying the ABCCC mission EC-130s as the
42 ACCS which has since (in 2002 when the ABCCC retired) been re-designated the 42 ECS and conducts the training mission for Compass Call.
The board also decided that the 7 ACCS had too significant of a combat lineage (campaign streamers from Vietnam & Desert Storm) to be inactivated, so instead they chose to inactivate the
2 ACCS, which was after all only flying around in circles over the United States for 24 years (NOTE: this is sarcasm). Within 2 days in July 1994, the 7 ACCS was redesignated the 42 ACCS and the 2 ACCS was redesignated the 7 ACCS. The planes and people moved from Keesler AFB to Davis-Monthan AFB and the name "7 ACCS" moved to Offutt AFB.
During the time that 7 ACCS was flying EC-135 Looking Glass missions, the squadron was also looking to broaden its mission taskings particularly in the area of tactical and operational
C2. As a result, 7 ACCS was involved in the planning and execution of the initial phase of
Operation Uphold Democracy; 7 ACCS EC-135 aircraft were in-flight with mission commanders of the 82d Airborne Division whose troops were also in-flight/enroute to Haiti when the airborne invasion was called off.
In less than 5 years at Offutt AFB (July 1994-Oct 1998), the 7 ACCS's Looking Glass mission was transferred to the Navy E-6s, the EC-135s were retired, and the 7 ACCS was inactivated. — Preceding
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During the
General McPeak era (1990 - 1994) of the Air Force, there were many organizational and unit name changes in the USAF. For one of those changes, an Air Force board decided to transfer the 7 ACCS's planes, personnel, etc. from Keesler AFB to Davis-Monthan AFB in order to consolidate the EC-130s. The
41st Electronic Combat Squadron (ECS) and the
43 ECS were already at Davis-Monthan AFB flying the Compass Call electronic warfare mission, so this Air Force board decided to re-designate the squadron flying the ABCCC mission EC-130s as the
42 ACCS which has since (in 2002 when the ABCCC retired) been re-designated the 42 ECS and conducts the training mission for Compass Call.
The board also decided that the 7 ACCS had too significant of a combat lineage (campaign streamers from Vietnam & Desert Storm) to be inactivated, so instead they chose to inactivate the
2 ACCS, which was after all only flying around in circles over the United States for 24 years (NOTE: this is sarcasm). Within 2 days in July 1994, the 7 ACCS was redesignated the 42 ACCS and the 2 ACCS was redesignated the 7 ACCS. The planes and people moved from Keesler AFB to Davis-Monthan AFB and the name "7 ACCS" moved to Offutt AFB.
During the time that 7 ACCS was flying EC-135 Looking Glass missions, the squadron was also looking to broaden its mission taskings particularly in the area of tactical and operational
C2. As a result, 7 ACCS was involved in the planning and execution of the initial phase of
Operation Uphold Democracy; 7 ACCS EC-135 aircraft were in-flight with mission commanders of the 82d Airborne Division whose troops were also in-flight/enroute to Haiti when the airborne invasion was called off.
In less than 5 years at Offutt AFB (July 1994-Oct 1998), the 7 ACCS's Looking Glass mission was transferred to the Navy E-6s, the EC-135s were retired, and the 7 ACCS was inactivated. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Air Power Geek (
talk •
contribs) 22:38, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I have an email from a veteran to WP:OTRS ( Ticket:2014013010015748 ) to the following effect:
Any updates would be appreciated, the gent in question finds the prospect of editing Wikipedia rather daunting. Thanks, Guy ( Help!) 09:29, 6 February 2014 (UTC)