732nd Air Expeditionary Group explained

Unit Name:732nd Air Expeditionary Group
Dates:1940–1945; 2004–2010
Type:Air Expeditionary Group
Command Structure:Air Combat Command
Battles:European Theater of Operations Global War on Terrorism[1]
Decorations:Meritorious Unit Citation[2]
Air Force Meritorious Unit Award[3]
Identification Symbol Label:732nd Air Expeditionary Group emblem[4]

The 732nd Air Expeditionary Group is an inactive provisional United States Air Force unit. It was last active at Joint Base Balad, where it provided support for airmen supporting units of other services in Iraq.

The group was first activated as the 32nd Air Base Group in 1940. As the 32nd Service Group, it provided support for Ninth Air Force Units in the European Theater of Operations until it was inactivated shortly after VE Day.

History

World War II

The group was first activated in 1940 at March Field, California as the 32nd Air Base Group with an air base squadron and two materiel squadrons assigned. In June 1942, along with other air base groups, its air base squadron was reassigned and it was converted into the 32nd Service Group, a support unit designed to provide support for two combat groups. After training in the United States, It moved to England, where it served with IX Air Force Service Command until it was disbanded in June 1945, when the Army Air Forces replaced its service groups with air service groups consisting entirely of Air Corps personnel and designed to support a single combat group.[5]

War in Iraq

The 732nd Air Expeditionary Group was a subordinate unit to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, whose heritage is tied to the famous 332nd Fighter Group led by the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. Its mission and traditions were carried out by airmen headquartered at Joint Base Balad, Iraq with the motto "Tuskegee Airmen...The Legend Continues."

The 732nd Air Expeditionary Group was composed of roughly 1,800 Air Force personnel spread across six squadrons with detachments tactically assigned to U.S. Army, Marine Corps and Coalition units at 44 locations throughout Iraq. Originally the 732 Expeditionary Mission Support Group, the unit was re-designated an air expeditionary group to reflect its theater-wide combat and combat support responsibilities at the height of the 2006–2007 US military surge. The six squadrons of the 732 AEG conducted combat and combat support for or in lieu of US Army, Marine Corps and Iraqi Army and Police Forces, at locations including downtown Baghdad; Camp Speicher; Al Asad Air Base; Camp Anaconda (Balad Air Base); Camp Habbaniyah; Camp Bucca; Camp Caldwell (Kirkush); Tallil Air Base; Mosul Air Base; Camp Rustamiyah; Baghdad International Airport; Green Zone; Kirkuk Air Base; Camp Hadithah; Taji Air Base and numerous forward operating bases.

Colonel Larry Jackson assumed command of the 732 EMSG in July 2006 and, after December 2006, served as the first 732 AEG commander until July 2007 during which the brigade-level group's Airmen included security forces, Red Horse and civil engineers, military working dog teams, intelligence specialists, explosive ordnance disposal specialists, logisticians and transportation specialists, airfield managers, judge advocate and legal services specialists and interrogators. The 732 AEG's motto was "Combat Airpower with a Hooah...Right Here, Right Now!"

Reflecting its active combat and combat support mission, the 732 AEG suffered 42 battle casualties from July 2006 to July 2007 including six killed-in-action: Capt. Kermit O. Evans, Master Sgt. Brad A. Clemmons, Staff Sgt. John T. Self, Army Sgt. Keith E. Fiscus, Airman 1st Class LeeBernard E. Chavis, and Airman 1st Class Jason D. Nathan.[6] Redesignated 732nd Air Expeditionary Group in December 2006 with Colonel Lawrence M. Jackson II as its first commander. The group was inactivated in November 2010 and the 467th Air Expeditionary Group was activated in its place.[7]

Lineage

Activated on 15 January 1941

Redesignated 32nd Air Base Group on 6 November 1941

Redesignated 32nd Service Group on 13 June 1942

Activated on 2 March 2004

Redesignated 732nd Air Expeditionary Group in December 2006

Inactivated on 12 November 2010[7]

Assignments

Stations

Aachen, Germany, 29 March 1945

Niedermendig, Germany, 9 April 1945

Kassel, Germany, 22 April – 11 June 1945

Venio, Netherlands, 16 March 1945

Lippstadt, Germany, 23 April 1945

Munich, Germany, 26 May – 11 June 1945

Charleroi, Belgium, 20 March 1945

Maastricht, Netherlands, c. March 1945

Wiesbaden, Germany, 20 April – 11 June 45

Honors

References

Notes
Citations

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Special Order G-33994, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Campaign Credit. 14 July 2014. United States Air Forces Central Command. 29 January 2017.
  2. AF Pamphlet 900-2
  3. Web site: Air Force Personnel Services: Unit Awards. Air Force Personnel Center. 29 January 2017. (search)
  4. Web site: Uniformed Services: U.S. Air Force:732nd Air Expeditionary Group. The Institute of Heraldry. 29 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202055847/http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=12810&CategoryId=7737&grp=1&menu=Uniformed%20Services. 2 February 2017. dead.
  5. See Coleman, p. 208 (replacement of service groups with air service groups).
  6. Web site: Fact Sheets : 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing : 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing . 9 February 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071105145532/http://www.balad.afnews.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4032 . 5 November 2007 . dead.
  7. Web site: 467th AEG provides world-class support to IA, JET Airmen. Allen. SSG Sanjay. 22 November 2010. U.S. Air Forces Central Public Affair. https://web.archive.org/web/20120318173009/http://www.afcent.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123231828 . 18 March 2012. 29 January 2017.
  8. This unit is not related to the 32nd Air Base Group that was constituted on 10 August 1948 and activated at Kadena Air Base 18 Aug 1948, inactivated 1 April 1949 and reactivated at Minot Air Force Base from 1 February 1961 to 1 July 1962. See Fletcher, p. 63; Mueller, p. 421.
  9. Station number in Anderson.
  10. Station number in Johnson.

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