The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons.
Squadron | Shield | Location | Notes | |
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1st Combat Weather Squadron | ||||
Offutt AFB | ||||
Aligned with the III Corps, (US Army) | ||||
Units active during Vietnam War | ||||
7th Combat Weather Squadron &7th Expeditionary Combat Weather Squadron | Inactivated 2021; replaced by 13th Expeditionary Combat Weather Squadron[1] | |||
Reactivated as 9th Operational Weather Squadron | ||||
Redesignated 10th Combat Weather Squadron on 1 April 1996; inactivated 16 May 2014[2] | ||||
Redesignated from 13th Weather Squadron and reactivated in 2021. | ||||
Inactivated in 1951. | ||||
Redesignated 17 OWS | ||||
The One-Eight. Aligned with the XVIII Airborne Corps. (US Army) | ||||
19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron[3] | See 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group | |||
Webb AFB (closed) | ||||
30th Weather Squadron | HQ at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam during war | |||
USAFE stations under 2nd Weather Wing | ||||
Squadron | Shield | Location | Nickname | Notes | |
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The 9 OWS inactivated on 31 May 2008 and merged with the 26th Operational Weather Squadron located on Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. | |||||
Inactivated on 13 June 2008; operations consolidated with 17th OWS | |||||
"Thunderbolts" | |||||
"Geckos" | |||||
"Samurais" | Inactivated April 2006; operations consolidated with 17th OWS[4] | ||||
21st Operational Weather Squadron | "Knights" | ||||
Davis–Monthan AFB | "Bobcats" | ||||
26th Operational Weather Squadron | "Bayou Bandits" | ||||
28th Operational Weather Squadron | "Cobras" |
See main article: List of United States Air Force weather reconnaissance squadrons.