Units
The wing was reorganized in 2005 to reflect its current structure. It consists of four groups and two direct reporting units to the wing:
- 57th Operations Group (57 OG)
- A non-flying unit, the 57 OG provides direct oversight of the Nellis flying mission through the 57th Operations Support Squadron
- 57th Adversary Tactics Group (57 ATG) (tail code: WA )
- Established in July 2005, the 57th ATG consists of Aggressor squadrons that replicate adversary threat tactics while training combat air forces aircrews.
- 64th Aggressor Squadron: 15 Sep 2005-Present
- 65th Aggressor Squadron: 15 Sep 2005-Present
- 527th Space Aggressor Squadron: 14 Apr 2006-Present
- 57th Adversary Tactics Support Squadron
- 57th Information Aggressor Squadron
- 507th Air Defense Aggressor Squadron
- 547th Intelligence Squadron
- USAF Weapons School
- Composed of 16 squadrons, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School teaches graduate-level instructor courses that provide the world's most advanced training in weapons and tactics employment to officers of the combat air forces.
- USAF Air Demonstration Squadron - The Thunderbirds
- "America's Ambassadors in Blue," the Thunderbirds have performed for more than 300 million people in all 50 states and 60 countries around the world.
- 57th Maintenance Group
- Provides on- and off-equipment maintenance for 120 assigned A-10, F-15, F-16, and F-22A aircraft to support 15 flying programs plus AFSOC
- United States Air Force Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Officers School
- Provides graduate-level instruction to maintenance and munitions officers in the USAF distinctive capability of Agile Combat Support (ACS).
The Thunderbirds and the USAF Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Officer School report directly to the 57th Wing commander.
Read more about this topic: 57th Wing
Famous quotes containing the word units:
“Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another—secret and passionate and intense—which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)