• Source: 318th Operations Support Squadron

    • The United States Air Force's 318th Operations Support Squadron is an operations support squadron located at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.


    Mission


    The mission of the 318th Squadron is to "Deliver relevant, validated, tactics, intelligence, and synchronized capabilities to cyberspace warfighters while providing mission support throughout the 688th Cyberspace Wing."


    History


    The squadron was first activated at Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina on 1 May 1943 as the 318th Airdrome Squadron. The squadron provided support to the 309th Bombardment Group, a Replacement Training Unit that trained replacement aircrews using B-25 Mitchell aircraft. However, the AAF was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving less well adapted to performing the training and support missions. Accordingly, a more functional system was adopted in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit. As a result, in 1944, the squadron was disbanded and merged into the 329th Army Air Force Base Unit (Replacement Training Unit, Medium, Bombardment).
    The squadron was reactivated in 2011, replacing the 23d Information Operations Squadron as the support organization for the 318th Information Operations Group.


    Lineage


    Constituted as the 318th Airdrome Squadron (Special) c. 13 April 1943
    Activated on 1 May 1943
    Disbanded on 1 May 1944
    Reconstituted on 10 November 2011 and redesignated 318th Operations Support Squadron
    Activated on 7 December 2011


    = Assignments

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    Probably Third Air Force, 1 May 1943 – 1 May 1944
    318th Information Operations Group (later 318th Cyberspace Operations Group), 7 December 2011 – present


    = Stations

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    Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina, 1 May 1943 – 1 May 1944
    Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, 7 December 2011 – present


    = Campaigns

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    See also


    Twenty-Fourth Air Force


    References




    = Notes

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    = Bibliography

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    This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

    Goss, William A (1955). "The Organization and its Responsibilities, Chapter 2 The AAF". In Craven, Wesley F; Cate, James L (eds.). The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. VI, Men & Planes. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. LCCN 48003657. OCLC 704158.
    Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979.


    External links


    Boehnert, 1 Lt Joshua (8 June 2012). "318th OSS hosts Spouses' Fitness Challenge". 688th Cyberspace Wing Public Affairs. Retrieved 1 May 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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