Unit Name: | 4th Air Support Operations Squadron |
Dates: | 1996–2013 |
Role: | Air Support Operations |
Command Structure: | United States Air Forces Europe |
Battles: | Kosovo War Iraq War[1] |
Decorations: | Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device Air Force Outstanding Unit Award |
Identification Symbol Label: | 4th Air Support Operations Squadron emblem (approved 12 March 2004) |
Identification Symbol 2 Label: | 4th Air Support Operations Squadron (second emblem) |
Identification Symbol 3 Label: | 4th Air Support Operations Squadron emblem (early) |
The United States Air Force's 4th Air Support Operations Squadron was a combat support unit located at Mannheim, Germany with V Corps until it was inactivated in 2013.
The squadron provided tactical air command and control of airpower assets to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and Joint Forces Land Component Commander for combat operations. It deployed personnel and command, control, communications, and computer (C4) systems and associated support equipment and materiel in order to establish an Air Support Operations Center) as part of the Theater Air Control System and providing airpower support to US Army V Corps.
Activated on 30 September 1996
Inactivated on 13 September 2013[1]