53rd Wing, US Air Force
53RD WING, US AIR FORCE
History: Established as 53 Pursuit Group (Interceptor) on 20 November 1940. Activated on 15 January 1941. Redesignated 53 Fighter Group on 15 May 1942. Disbanded on 1 May 1944. Reestablished, and redesignated 53 Fighter Group (Air Defense), on 20 June 1955. Activated on 18 August 1955. Discontinued on 1 April 1960. Redesignated 53 Tactical Fighter Group on 31 July 1985. Consolidated (25 September 1995) with the USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center, which was organized on 1 November 1963. Redesignated: USAF Air Warfare Center on 1 October 1991; 53 Wing on 1 October 1995. Trained fighter pilots, January-December 1941. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, moved to the Canal Zone to fly patrols in defense of the Panama Canal. Returned to Florida in November 1942, where it trained replacement fighter pilots until disbanded on 1 May 1944. Between August 1955 and April 1960, served as an air defense unit, participating in NORAD exercises and testing automated air defense systems. Activated as the USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center in 1963 to improve use of USAF tactical aviation in support of ground forces by operationally testing weapon systems and tactics for the joint U.S. Strike Command. Employed a cross-section of tactical aircraft from Tactical Air Command bases across the country. During the conflict in Vietnam, tested tactical weapons systems and tactics for use in Southeast Asia. After the Vietnam conflict, continued operational testing of new tactical aviation weapon systems. In 1977, began an annual series of Air Force-wide exercises to improve command, control, communications, and intelligence techniques. Around the same time, embarked on the electronic warfare evaluation program, and continued operational tests and evaluations of aviation weapon systems for Tactical Air Command and later Air Combat Command, the Department of Defense, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). From 1983 to present, responsible for the test and evaluation of all Air Force aircraft/weapons systems, and providing range control for live-firing missile programs on the Gulf range and aerial targets, using full scale and subscale drones.
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The Emblem was approved on 26 May 1964.
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