Overview
On 8 September 1986, Seventh Air Force was activated at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, and assumed the mission of maintaining the fragile armistice on the Korean peninsula previously performed by the 314th Air Division.
Since then, both as U.S. Air Forces Korea, under the joint U.S. Forces Korea, and the U.S. Air Force component to the United States and Republic of Korea Combined Forces Command's Air Component Command, 7 AF has been an integral part of deterring aggression from North Korea. It develops the total air campaign and reinforcement plans for ROK defense and sustains mission readiness of 117 operational units and 8,300 U.S. Air Force personnel.
It operates in conjunction with United States Pacific Command (USPACOM), United Nations Command (Korea), U.S. Forces, Korea/Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea (USFK).
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