2d Space Wing

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2d Space Wing
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Active1985-1992
CountryUnited States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeSpace Operations
RoleCombat Support
Part of Air Force Space Command/14th Air Force
Motto(s)"First in Space Operations"
Decorations US Air Force Outstanding Unit Award - Stremer.jpg

The 2d Space Wing was a wing of the United States Air Force. Constituted on 5 December 1984 and activated on 8 July 1985, it was the host wing at Falcon Air Force Station (later Falcon Air Force Base; now Schriever Air Force Base). It took operational control of the Air Force Satellite Control Network in October 1987. It was inactivated on 30 January 1992 when the 50th Space Wing replaced it. [1]

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The 2d Space Wing was redesignated as Buckley Garrison on 23 July 2020 and activated on 24 July 2020. The organization was redesignated as Space Base Delta 2 on 23 May 2022.

Assignments

Major command

Numbered air force

Components

Groups

Squadrons

Stations

Decorations

Commanders

Emblem

Blazon

Azure, within a pattern of seven mullets argent a globe celeste gridlined of the first, encompassed by an orbital ring bendsinisterwise argent bearing two polestars or, overall a flight symbol bendwise argent emitting a contrail or, all within a diminished bordure of the last.

Significance

Blue and yellow are the Air Force colors. Blue alludes to the sky, the primary theater of operations for the Air Force. Yellow refers to the sun and excellence required of Air Force personnel. The globe represents the earth as viewed from space and signifies the worldwide coverage provided by Air Force satellite in accomplishing surveillance and communications missions. The ellipse symbolizes the Air Force Satellite Control Network and the two stars depict the satellites. The deltoid and its contrail denote the Air Force Launch Vehicles that place the satellites in orbit. The seven stars represent the vastness of space and the environment of our operations.

Motto

"First in Space Operations" approved on 8 June 1989.

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