836th Air Division
The 836th Air Division (836 AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Tactical Air Command, assigned to Twelfth Air Force, being stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. It was inactivated on May 1, 1992.
The unit was an intermediate command echelon of Tactical Air Command, providing command and control of tactical aircraft (fighter, bomber, transport) and support forces.
It deployed subordinate units to Southeast Asia for combat operations between 1962 and 1965, 1967 and 1971, 1972, and again in 1973. During 1965–1970, some subordinate units functioned as replacement training units for F-4 aircrews. In 1968 the division began supervising B-57 light bomber aircrew training, and between 1967 and 1971, it supervised tests for weapon systems, aircraft armament and munitions, and tactical procedures. Inactivated in 1971 as a result of budget reductions, its units being consolidated directly into Ninth Air Force.
Reactivated in January 1981 with a mission to advise Air Force component commanders and land forces on A-10 aircraft tactics, training, employment and readiness, and subordinate units participated in exercises such as Red Flag and Celtic Echo. Inactivated in 1992 as a result of the end of the Cold War and the inactivation of TAC.
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