195th Wing

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195th Wing
US-AirNationalGuard-2007Emblem.svg
195th Tactical Airlift Squadron - Lockheed C-130A-7-LM Hercules 56-498.jpg
Group C-130 Hercules [note 1]
Active1962–1970; 1970–1974; 2015–present
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Branch US-AirNationalGuard-2007Emblem.svg   Air National Guard
RoleComposite unit
Part of California Air National Guard
Garrison/HQ Beale Air Force Base
Insignia
195th Wing emblem (approved 1 October 1973) [1] 195th Wing emblem.png

The 195th Wing is a unit of the California Air National Guard, stationed at Beale Air Force Base, California. If mobilized, the wing would be assigned to Air Force Space Command. It comprises seven subordinate units at five locations throughout the state. The 195th controls all non-flying, non-kinetic operations for the California Air National Guard. [2] The wing was activated as the headquarters for California Air National Guard space, cyber, and intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance units.

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From 1970 through 1974, the wing flew Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft from Van Nuys Air National Guard Base as the 195th Tactical Airlift Group.

Today the wing's mission is to train, deploy and employ its airmen and assets to deliver integrated space, cyber, and intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance capabilities to the Combatant Commands and the Governor of California. [2]

Organization

149th Intelligence Squadron (Mather Field, California) [2] [note 2]
222d Intelligence Support Squadron [2]
234th Intelligence Squadron [2]
147th Combat Communications Squadron [2]
148th Space Operations Squadron (Vandenberg Air Force Base, California) [2]
216th Space Control Squadron (Vandenberg Air Force Base, California) - the federal mission of the 216th is to provide combat space superiority effects to the Commander, Combined Force Space Component Command and Space Operations Command under U.S. Space Force, and theater combatant commanders. [3] The unit’s space operators deploy globally to conduct mobile and transportable space superiority and evaluate and operate new counter-space technologies.
261st Cyber Operations Squadron (Van Nuys, California) [2]

History

Airlift group

The 195th Tactical Airlift Group was formed as the headquarters for the 195th Tactical Airlift Squadron in 1971 Van Nuys Air National Guard Base and was initially equipped with the Lockheed C-130A Hercules. In 1973, the group upgraded to the C-130B model of the Hercules. As the Vietnam War wound down, the demand for airlift decreased and the 146th Tactical Airlift Wing was reduced in size by inactivating the 195th Group and its components on 30 September 1974. The group's personnel, equipment and aircraft were reassigned to other units of the 146th Wing. [2]

Composite wing

In August 2015, the California Air National Guard announced that it was forming a new wing to manage its military intelligence, space, cyber and combat communications missions. The core of the new wing would be the 162d Combat Communications Group, which would be inactivated when the wing stood up. [2] [4] Preparations for establishing the wing went back as far as 2001, when the 162d Group added units whose mission complemented its core combat communications mission. [2]

Lineage

Activated on 15 May 1971
Federally recognized on 7 October 1971
Inactivated on 30 September 1974

Assignments

Components

Groups
Squadrons
Flights
Medical

Stations

Aircraft

See also

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References

Notes
  1. ↑ Aircraft is Lockheed C-130A-7-LM Hercules serial 56-498
  2. ↑ If no location is given, the unit is located with wing headquarters at Beale Air Force Base.
Citations
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Anderson, David P. (October 5, 2015). "Lineage & Honors History of the 195th Wing California Air National Guard" (PDF). California Military History Museum. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "195th Wing - California Air National Guard". 9th Wing Public Affairs. May 19, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Cal Guard Space Operators support COVID-19 food bank mission".
  4. ↑ "California Guard Forms 195th Wing To Take On Space, Cyber, Intelligence, Communications Missions". Homeland Security Today. August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2016.

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