List of United States Air Force weather squadrons

The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons.

## Weather Squadrons[edit]

Squadron | Shield | Location | Notes

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1st Combat Weather Squadron |

| Fort Lewis |
2d Weather Squadron |

| Offutt AFB |
3rd Combat Weather Squadron |

| Fort Cavazos | Aligned with the III Corps, (US Army)
4th Weather Squadron |  | Maxwell AFB |
5th Weather Squadron |  |  | Units active during Vietnam War
6th Weather Squadron (Mobile) |  | Tinker AFB |
7th Combat Weather Squadron &

7th Expeditionary Combat Weather Squadron

| Lucius D. Clay Kaserne | Inactivated 2021; replaced by 13th Expeditionary Combat Weather Squadron[1]
8th Weather Squadron |  |  |
9th Weather Squadron |  | Shaw AFB | Reactivated as 9th Operational Weather Squadron
10th Weather Squadron |  | Hurlburt Field | Redesignated 10th Combat Weather Squadron on 1 April 1996; inactivated 16 May 2014[2]
11th Weather Squadron |  |  |
12th Weather Squadron |  |  |
13th Expeditionary Combat Weather Squadron |  |  | Redesignated from 13th Weather Squadron and reactivated in 2021.[1]
13th Weather Squadron |  |  | Inactivated in 1951.[1]
14th Weather Squadron |

| Asheville, North Carolina |
15th Weather Squadron |  |  |
16th Weather Squadron |  | Offutt AFB |
17th Weather Squadron |

| Hickam AFB | Redesignated 17 OWS
18th Combat Weather Squadron |  | Fort Liberty, North Carolina | The One-Eight. Aligned with the XVIII Airborne Corps. (US Army)
Detachment 1 |  | Fort Drum, NY |
Detachment 2 |  | Fort Johnson, LA |
Detachment 3 |  | Hunter Army Airfield, GA |
Detachment 4 |  | Fort Campbell, KY |
Operating Location - B |  | Fort Belvoir, VA |
Operating Location - C |  | Fort Novosel, AL |
Operating Location - Q |  | Fort Knox, KY |
19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron[3] |

| Afghanistan | See 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group
20th Weather Squadron |  |  |
21st Weather Squadron |  | Kapaun Air Station |
23d Weather Squadron |  |  |
24th Weather Squadron |  | Webb AFB (closed) |
25th Weather Squadron |  |  |
26th Weather Squadron |  | Barksdale AFB |
28th Weather Squadron |  |  |
29th Weather Squadron |  |  |
30th Weather Squadron |

| Vandenberg AFB, California | HQ at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam during war
31st Weather Squadron |  | former Sembach AB | USAFE stations under 2nd Weather Wing
32d Weather Squadron |  |  |
33d Weather Squadron |  |  |
35th Weather Squadron |  |  |
45th Weather Squadron |

| Patrick Space Force Base | Performs weather assessments for rocket launches at
Kennedy Space Center
46th Weather Squadron |

| Eglin AFB, Florida |
88th Weather Squadron |

| Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio |
607th Weather Squadron |

| Camp Humphreys, South Korea |

## Operational Weather Squadrons[edit]

Squadron | Shield | Location | Nickname | Notes

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9th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Shaw AFB |  | The 9 OWS inactivated on 31 May 2008 and merged with the 26th Operational Weather Squadron located on Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.
11th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Elmendorf AFB |  | Inactivated on 13 June 2008; operations consolidated with 17th OWS
15th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Scott AFB | "Thunderbolts" |
17th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Hickam AFB | "Geckos" |
20th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Yokota AB | "Samurais" | Inactivated April 2006; operations consolidated with 17th OWS[4]
21st Operational Weather Squadron |  | Kapaun Air Station | "Knights" |
25th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Davis–Monthan AFB | "Bobcats" |
26th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Barksdale AFB | "Bayou Bandits" |
28th Operational Weather Squadron |  | Shaw AFB | "Cobras" |

## Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons[edit]

Main article: List of United States Air Force weather reconnaissance squadrons

## Miscellaneous Weather Squadrons[edit]

Squadron | Shield | Location | Notes

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Air Force Operations Group |  | Pentagon |
10th Combat Weather Squadron |  |  |
20th Air Weather Squadron |  |  |
54th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron |  |  |
55th Space Weather Squadron |  |  |
56th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron |  |  |
57th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron |  |  |
58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron |  |  |
59th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron |  |  |
2150th Air Weather Squadron |  |  |

## See also[edit]

* List of United States Air Force squadrons

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Clear skies forecasted as 7th ECWS becomes 13th ECWS". Ramstein Air Base. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
2. ^ "10th CWS deactivates [sic] at Hurlburt Field".
3. ^ Factsheet: 19 Expeditionary Weather Squadron Archived 14 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, AFHRA
4. ^ 20 OWS History Page (w1vxa.us)[permanent dead link]

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