Tenth Air Force - Overview

Overview

Tenth Air Force, located at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, directs the activities of nearly 16,000 reservists and 636 civilians located at 31 military installations throughout the United States. The mission of Tenth Air Force is to exercise command supervision of its assigned Reserve units to ensure they maintain the highest combat capability to augment active forces in support of national objectives.

With approximately 60 full-time headquarters staff members, Tenth Air Force acts as the focal point for all matters pertaining to assigned Air Force Reserve units and individuals. With the assistance of 36 traditional reservists assigned, the headquarters monitors and provides assistance to all subordinate units to help resolve problem areas and more efficiently maintain unit combat readiness.

The headquarters is responsible for managing and supervising five fighter wings comprising 11 fighter squadrons, seven fighter groups, one rescue wing comprising six air rescue squadrons, one bomb wing, one airborne warning and control group, one special operations wing, one space wing comprising nine squadrons, one regional support group and more than seventy non-flying units. If mobilized, the flying units and their support elements would be gained by Air Combat Command (ACC) and Special Operations Command (AFSOC), with other units gained by Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), Air Mobility Command (AMC), United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) and Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). Tenth Air Force is the only Numbered Air Force that touches every Major Command with the exception of Air Force Material Command (AFMC).

The flying organizations within Tenth Air Force include fighter units equipped with the F-16 (Fighting Falcon) and A-10 (Thunderbolt II); fighter associate program detachments equipped with the F-15 (Eagle) and F-16; associate flying training units equipped with the F-22 (Raptor); associate units flying Predator, Reaper and Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; air rescue units equipped with the HC-130 (Hercules) and the HH-60 (Pave Hawk) helicopter; a bomb wing equipped with the B-52 (Stratofortress); an airborne warning and control associate unit equipped with the E-3 (Sentry); and a special operations unit equipped with the MC-130E (Combat Talon). The 610th Regional Support Group at NAS Fort Worth JRB is responsible for the management of twelve geographically separated units throughout the United States.

Other organizations include combat air operations, medical, civil engineer, combat logistics, communications, security forces, aerial port, intelligence and aeromedical units. Additionally, the Reserve portion of the Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve Test Center (AATC), which conducts operational test and evaluation of fighter equipment and improvements, is directly assigned to Tenth Air Force.

Reservists from 10th Air Force units are routinely deployed to Air Expeditionary units in combat areas of Central and Southwest Asia as part of the Overseas Contingency Operation.