732d Air Expeditionary Group

732d Air Expeditionary Group
A member of the 732d Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron with Iraqi police officers
Active 1940–1945; 2004–2010
Country  United States
Branch  United States Air Force
Type Air Expeditionary Group
Part of Air Combat Command
Engagements European Theater of Operations Global War on Terrorism[1]
Decorations Meritorious Unit Citation[2]
Air Force Meritorious Unit Award[3]
Insignia
732d Air Expeditionary Group emblem[4]

The 732d Air Expeditionary Group is an inactive provisional United States Air Force unit. It was last active at Joint Base Balad, where it provided support for airmen supporting units of other services in Iraq.

The group was first activated as the 32d Air Base Group in 1940. As the 32d Service Group, it provided support for Ninth Air Force Units in the European Theater of Operations until it was inactivated shortly after VE Day.

History

World War II

The group was first activated in 1940 at March Field, California as the 32d Air Base Group with an air base squadron and two materiel squadrons assigned. In June 1942, along with other air base groups, its air base squadron was reassigned and it was converted into the 32d Service Group, a support unit designed to provide support for two combat groups. After training in the United States, It moved to England, where it served with IX Air Force Service Command until it was disbanded in June 1945, when the Army Air Forces replaced its service groups with air service groups consisting entirely of Air Corps personnel and designed to support a single combat group.[5]

War in Iraq

The 732d Air Expeditionary Group provided oversight and advocacy for roughly 1,100 Air Force personnel spread across four squadrons who were tactically assigned to U.S. Army and Marine units throughout Iraq. Originally the 732 Expeditionary Mission Support Group, the 732 AEG was re-designated an air expeditionary group in December 2006 to reflect its theater-wide responsibilities. Operating from Balad Air Base at its inception, the six squadrons of the 732 AEG provided direct Joint and Coalition combat and combat support to and/or in lieu of US Army, Marine Corps and Iraqi Army and Police Forces at over 60 locations, including downtown Baghdad; Camp Speicher; Al Asad Air Base; Camp Anaconda (Balad Air Base); Camp Bucca; Camp Caldwell (Kirkush); Tallil Air Base; Mosul Air Base; Camp Rustamiyah; Baghdad International Airport; Green Zone; Kirkuk Air Base; Camp Hadithah; and Taji Air Base. Colonel Larry Jackson served as the first AEG commander at the height of the 2006 to 2007 military surge when the 732 AEG had over 1800 Airmen assigned, including security forces, Red Horse and civil engineers, lawyers, truck drivers, interrogators, military working dog teams, intelligence specialists, explosive ordnance disposal specialist, logisticians, and airfield managers. The 732 AEG provided operational oversight for Airmen who were tactically assigned to U.S. Army and Marine units.[6] Redesignated 732d Air Expeditionary Group in December 2006 with Colonel Lawrence M. Jackson II as the first 732 AEG commander. The group was inactivated in November 2010 and the 467th Air Expeditionary Group was activated in its place.[7]

Lineage

  • Constituted as the 32d Air Base Group (Reinforced) on 20 November 1940[note 1]
Activated on 15 January 1941
Redesignated 32d Air Base Group on 6 November 1941
Redesignated 32d Service Group on 13 June 1942
  • Disbanded on 11 June 1945
  • Reconstituted, redesignated 732d Expeditionary Mission Support Group and converted to provisional status on 14 January 2004. Allotted to Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate as needed.
Activated on 2 March 2004
Redesignated 732d Air Expeditionary Group in December 2006
Inactivated on 12 November 2010[7]

Assignments

  • GHQ Air Force (later, Air Force Combat Command), 15 January 1941
  • 4th Air Force Service Command (later, 4th Air Base Command), 1 October 1941
  • Western Theater of Operations, Air Service Command, 30 December 1941
  • Mobile Air Service Area Command, c. January 1943
  • Warner Robins Air Service Area Command, 1943
  • Eighth Air Force (later United States Strategic Air Forces In Europe), 28 January 1944
  • IX Air Force Service Command, 4 February 1944 – 11 June 1945
  • 332d Air Expeditionary Wing, 2 March 2004 – 12 November 2010

Stations

Aachen, Germany, 29 March 1945
Niedermendig, Germany, 9 April 1945
Kassel, Germany, 22 April – 11 June 1945
    • Detachment B
Venio, Netherlands, 16 March 1945
Lippstadt, Germany, 23 April 1945
Munich, Germany, 26 May – 11 June 1945
    • Detachment C
Charleroi, Belgium, 20 March 1945
Maastricht, Netherlands, c. March 1945
Wiesbaden, Germany, 20 April – 11 June 45

Honors

  • Service Streamers: World War II American Theater
  • Campaign Streamers.
    • World War II:
      • Normandy 1944
      • Northern France 1944
      • Rhineland 1944–1945
      • Central Europe 1945
  • Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None
  • Decorations. Meritorious Unit Citation: England, France, Belgium, 18 January – 30 November 1944.

References

Notes
  1. ↑ This unit is not related to the 32d Air Base Group that was constituted on 10 Aug 1948 and activated at Kadena Air Base 18 Aug 1948, inactivated 1 April 1949 and reactivated at Minot Air Force Base from 1 February 1961 to 1 July 1962. See Fletcher, p. 63; Mueller, p. 421.
Citations
  1. ↑ "Special Order G-33994, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Campaign Credit" (PDF). United States Air Forces Central Command. 14 July 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ AF Pamphlet 900-2
  3. ↑ "Air Force Personnel Services: Unit Awards". Air Force Personnel Center. Retrieved January 29, 2017. (search)
  4. ↑ "Uniformed Services: U.S. Air Force:732d Air Expeditionary Group". The Institute of Heraldry. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ See Coleman, p. 208 (replacement of service groups with air service groups).
  6. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 5 November 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2008.
  7. 1 2 Allen, SSG Sanjay (November 22, 2010). "467th AEG provides world-class support to IA, JET Airmen". U.S. Air Forces Central Public Affair. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  8. 1 2 Station number in Anderson.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Station number in Johnson.

Bibliography

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  • Coleman, John M (1950). The Development of Tactical Services in the Army Air Forces. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
  • Johnson, 1st Lt. David C. (1988). U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2015.
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