567th Cyberspace Operations Group explained

Unit Name:567th Cyberspace Operations Group
Dates:1944–1945; 1952–1955; 2018–present
Role:Cyberspace Operations
Command Structure:Air Combat Command
Garrison:Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland
Decorations:Air Force Outstanding Unit Award[1]
Identification Symbol Label:567 Cyberspace Operations Gp emblem

The 567th Cyberspace Operations Group is a United States Air Force organization at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, assigned to the 67th Cyberspace Wing. It was activated in June 2018.

The group's predecessor was activated as the 567th Air Service Group, a support unit for a combat group at the end of World War II. It did not deploy until after the end of the war and was inactivated in 1945.

The group was activated once again in 1952 as the 567th Air Base Group to replace the support elements of the inactivating 325th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. A year later Air Defense Command (ADC) established it as the 567th Air Defense Group, an operational headquarters for fighter-interceptor squadrons as well. It was replaced in 1955 when ADC transferred its mission, equipment, and personnel to the 325th Fighter Group in a project that replaced air defense groups commanding fighter squadrons with fighter groups with distinguished records during World War II. The two groups were consolidated in April 2019.

Mission

The group plans and executes cyberspace operations to assist supported commanders to fight in contested cyberspace environment. It operates to remove adversary cyberspace capabilities; defends the supported commander's key cyberspace assets; and prepares local cyberspace defenders to sustain advanced cyberspace defense tactics, techniques and procedures to ensure freedom of action within friendly cyberspace, while denying adversaries the same.[2]

History

World War II

The group was activated at Venice Army Air Field, Florida toward the end of World War II as the 567th Air Service Group and trained to support a single combat group in an overseas theater.[3] Its 985th Air Engineering Squadron would provide maintenance that was beyond the capability of the combat group, its 1005th Air Materiel Squadron would handle all supply matters, and its Headquarters & Base Services Squadron would provide other support.[3] It deployed to Guam in the fall of 1945, but arrived after the end of hostilities and was inactivated on 1 December.[2] The unit was disbanded in October 1948.[1]

Cold War air defense

During the Cold War the group was reconstituted, redesignated as the 567th Air Base Group, and activated at McChord Air Force Base, Washington in 1952[4] as part of a major reorganization of Air Defense Command (ADC) responding to ADC's difficulty under the existing wing base organizational structure in deploying fighter squadrons to best advantage.[5] It replaced the 325th Air Base Group[6] as the USAF host unit for McChord.[7] while the operational elements of the inactivating 325th Fighter-Interceptor Wing[8] transferred to the 4704th Defense Wing. The group was assigned seven squadrons to perform its support responsibilities.[7] [9] [10] [11] [12] The group also maintained aircraft stationed at McChord.[10]

The group was redesignated as the 567th Air Defense Group[4] and assumed responsibility for air defense of the Northwest United States. It was assigned the 317th and 318th Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons (FIS), flying early model Lockheed F-94 Starfire aircraft armed with 20 mm cannon,[13] from the 4704th Defense Wing as its operational elements.[14] [15] The same day, the 465th FIS, flying radar equipped and Mighty Mouse rocket armed North American F-86D Sabres[16] was activated as the group's third operational squadron.[17] In July 1953, the 318th FIS moved to Greenland and was transferred from the group.[15] In December 1953, the 317th FIS converted to F-86's.[13]

The group was inactivated in 1955[4] and replaced by the 325th Fighter Group (Air Defense)[18] [19] as result of ADC's Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars.[20] The group was disbanded once again in September 1984.[1]

Cyberspace operations

On 29 June 2018, the Air Force activated the 567th Cyberspace Operations Group at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Four of its squadrons are located at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. The 835th and 837th Cyberspace Operations Squadrons are located at Scott, where the group headquarters was originally located. In July 2020, the headquarters joined the other squadrons in Texas.[2] Three months later, two of its squadrons were transferred to the new 867th Cyberspace Operations Group at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Lineage

567th Air Defense Group

Activated on 7 December 1944

Inactivated 1 November 1945

Disbanded on 8 October 1948

Activated on 1 February 1952

Inactivated on 18 August 1955

Disbanded on 27 September 1984

Reconstituted on 5 April 2019 and consolidated with the 567th Cyberspace Operations Group as the 567th Cyberspace Operations Group[1]

567th Cyberspace Operations Group
  • Established as the 567th Cyberspace Operations Group on 22 June 2018
  • Activated on 29 June 2018
  • Consolidated with the 567th Air Defense Group on 5 April 2019[1]

    Assignments

    Components

    Operational Squadrons

    Support Squadrons

    Stations

    Aircraft

    Commanders

    See also

    References

    Notes

    Explanatory notes
    Citations

    Bibliography

    Further reading

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Factsheet 567 Cyberspace Operations Group (ACC). Ream. Margaret. March 21, 2021. Air Force Historical Research Agency. July 11, 2021.
    2. Web site: Factsheet, 567th Cyberspace Operations Group. No byline. 31 August 2018. Air Forces Cyber Public Affairs. 17 April 2019. 17 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190417211412/https://www.afcyber.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/962157/567th-cyberspace-operations-group/. dead.
    3. Coleman, p. 208
    4. Cornett & Johnson, p. 85
    5. Grant, p. 33
    6. Web site: Factsheet 325 Mission Support Group (AETC). Kane. Robert B.. 14 January 2011. Air Force Historical Research Agency. 17 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20130104174036/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=17734. 4 January 2013. dead.
    7. Mueller, pp. 391–395
    8. Web site: Factsheet 325 Fighter Wing (AETC). Kane. Robert B.. 14 January 2011. Air Force Historical Research Agency. 17 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20130104174036/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=17734. 4 January 2013. dead.
    9. Cornett & Johnson, p. 134
    10. Cornett & Johnson, p. 141
    11. Cornett & Johnson, p. 152
    12. See Web site: Abstract, History of the 567th Medical Squadron, Apr 1952. Air Force History Index. 17 June 2012.
    13. Cornett & Johnson p.116
    14. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 387
    15. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 389
    16. Cornett & Johnson, p.129
    17. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp.571–572
    18. Maurer, Combat Units, p. 207
    19. Web site: Factsheet 325 Operations Group (AETC) . Kane . Robert B. . 14 January 2011. Air Force Historical Research Agency . dead . 6 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110507062958/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9915 . 7 May 2011 .
    20. Buss, Sturm, Volan, & McMullen, p.6
    21. Web site: Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber): Units. Sixteenth Air Force Public Affairs. July 11, 2021.
    22. Web site: Factsheet 465 Air Refueling Squadron (AFRC). Robertson. Patsy. 3 July 2012. Air Force Historical Research Agency. 6 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20110913062452/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10800. 13 September 2011. dead.
    23. See Mueller, p. 395
    24. Web site: Abstract, History of 567th Air Service Group, December 1944. Air Force History Index. 17 June 2012.

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