The United States Air Force's 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group (438 AEG) is assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing of USAFCENT and is stationed at Kabul, Afghanistan.
The 438th Air Expeditionary Group stood up on 15 January 2007 in Al Anbar province, Iraq to provide close-air support to coalition forces in the region with A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft.
The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 438th Troop Carrier Group was a C-47 Skytrain transport unit assigned to Ninth Air Force in Western Europe.
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