• Source: 548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group

The United States Air Force's 548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group is an intelligence unit located at Beale AFB, California.
The group was first activated as the 6th Photographic Technical Squadron in November 1943. After training in the United States, it deployed to the Southwest Pacific Theater, serving in the Pacific until VJ Day. After the end of World War II the squadron remained in the Far East, serving in the occupation forces in Japan. It was still in Japan as the 548th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron, when the Korean War began in June 1950. It supported reconnaissance units in Japan until inactivated in 1960.
The squadron was activated to support Pacific Air Forces at Hickam Air Force Base in October 1965. As the Vietnam War increased the need for photographic interpretation, it expanded to become a group two years later. The 548th continued to serve in the Pacific until inactivating in 1992.
As the 548th Air Intelligence Group the unit was activated in August 1992, supporting Air Combat Command intelligence requirements until October 1994 when it was again inactivated. Its most recent activation at Beale Air Force Base took place in October 2003.




Mission


The mission of the 548 ISRG is to operate and maintain a $1B AN/GSQ-272 "Sentinel" weapon system (also known as Distributed Ground Station or DGS), and provide combatant commanders with processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) of actionable intelligence data collected by U-2, MQ-1, MQ-9 and RQ-4 aircraft and other platforms as required.




History


The group was first activated in November 1943 as the 6th Photographic Technical Squadron.




Lineage


Constituted as the 6th Photographic Technical Squadron on 20 November 1943
Activated on 1 Dec 1943
Redesignated 548 Reconnaissance Technical Squadron on 7 January 1950
Discontinued on 8 March 1960
Organized on 8 October 1965
Redesignated 548th Reconnaissance Technical Group on 1 October 1967
Inactivated on 3 July 1991
Redesignated 548th Air Intelligence Group on 1 August 1992
Activated on 27 August 1992
Inactivated on 1 October 1994
Redesignated 548th Intelligence Group on 23 October 2003
Activated on 1 December 2003
Redesignated 548th Intelligence, surveillance and Reconnaissance Group on 1 January 2009




= Assignments

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III Reconnaissance Command, 1 December 1943
Thirteenth Air Force, 13 May 1944
91st Reconnaissance Wing, 10 November 1945
Pacific Air Command, US Army (later Far East Air Forces), 27 January 1946
Fifth Air Force, 5 January 1950
Far East Air Forces, 18 February 1950
Japanese Air Defense Force, 1 May 1952
6007th Composite Reconnaissance Group (later 6007th Reconnaissance Group, 11 August 1954
Far East Air Forces, 2 April 1955
6007th Reconnaissance Group, 1 July 1955
Fifth Air Force, 1 July 1957
67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 1 October 1957 – 8 March 1960
Pacific Air Forces, 30 June 1965 – 3 July 1991
Air Combat Command, 27 August 1992
Second Air Force, 1 October 1992
Twelfth Air Force, 1 July 1993 – 1 October 1994
480th Intelligence Wing (later 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Intelligence Wing), 1 December 2003 – present




Components


9th Intelligence Squadron (Dec 2003 - Present)
13th Intelligence Squadron (Dec 2003 - Present)
48th Intelligence Support Squadron (Dec 2003 - Present)
553d Intelligence Squadron (Jun 2022 - Present)




Stations


Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, 1 December 1943 – 11 April 1944
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 13 May - 28 November 1944
Morotai, Philippines, 12 December 1944
Camp Dulag, Leyte, Philippines, 30 September 1945
Fort William McKinley, Luzon, Philippines, 22 November 1945
Tokyo, Japan, 17 May 1946
Yokota Army Air Base (later Yokota Air Base), Japan, September 1946
Showa Air Station, Japan, 30 June 1958
Yokota Air Base, Japan, 6–8 March 1960
Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, 8 October 1965 – 3 December 1991
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, 27 August 1992 – 1 October 1994
Beale Air Force Base, California, 1 December 2003 – present




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




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