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This is a list of United States Air Force reconnaissance squadrons. It covers units considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) such as bomb and fighter squadrons and serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons. Units in this list are primarily assigned to Air Combat Command in the United States Air Force.

When squadrons are deployed on operations overseas their names are temporarily changed to include the word "expeditionary", although when they return the names revert. However, there are some units which include the word "Expeditionary" all the time; these squadrons are provisional and may activate and inactivate at any time.

Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadrons (ERS)

Squadron Shield Location Unit Aircraft Note
4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Bagram Airfield MC-12W Inactivated on
1 October 2014. [1]
46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron S.W. Asia 387th Air Expeditionary Group MQ-1 Previously at
Joint Base Balad
60th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Camp Lemonnier MQ-1B, MQ-9A Inactivated on
7 October 2015. [2]
62d Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Inactivated.
361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Kandahar Airfield MC-12W Inactivated on
1 September 2014. [1]
362d Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Joint Base Balad MC-12W Inactivated. [1]
363d Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Inactivated. Previously at
Prince Sultan Air Base.

Reconnaissance Squadrons (RS)

Squadron Shield Location Nickname Aircraft Note
1st Reconnaissance Squadron Beale AFB U-2
5th Reconnaissance Squadron Osan AB U-2
6th Reconnaissance Squadron Holloman AFB RQ-1 [3]
11th Attack Squadron Creech AFB RQ-1, MQ-1
12th Reconnaissance Squadron Beale AFB RQ-4
13th Reconnaissance Squadron Beale AFB RQ-4 Reserve Unit
15th Attack Squadron Creech AFB "Cotton Pickers" RQ-1, MQ-1
17th Reconnaissance Squadron Creech AFB RQ-1, MQ-1
18th Reconnaissance Squadron Creech AFB
30th Reconnaissance Squadron Creech AFB RQ-170
38th Reconnaissance Squadron Offutt AFB "Fighting Hellcats" RC-135
45th Reconnaissance Squadron Offutt AFB "Sylvester" OC/RC/TC/EC/WC-135
78th Reconnaissance Squadron Nellis AFB "Bushmasters" Reserve Unit
82d Reconnaissance Squadron Kadena AB "Hog Heaven" RC-135
95th Reconnaissance Squadron RAF Mildenhall "Kickin' Ass" RC-135
OC-135
E-4
99th Reconnaissance Squadron Beale AFB U-2
111th Reconnaissance Squadron Ellington Field "Ace in the Hole" MQ-1 Texas ANG
343d Reconnaissance Squadron Offutt AFB
489th Attack Squadron Beale AFB, CA MQ-1
MQ-9

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Find Fix and Finish: Air Force MC-12W mission transitions to Army". USAF - ACC. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. ^ AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. January 2016. p. 17.
  3. ^ AF Link: "4 remotely piloted vehicle squadrons stand up at Holloman" Archived 2012-07-29 at archive.today
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