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	Tactical Air Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tactical Air Command was established 21 March 1946, along with the Strategic Air Command.
		TAC composite air strike forces were intended to augment existing combat units already in place as part of U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), the U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), or the Alaskan Air Command (AAC).
		TAC was heavily involved in the American war in Vietnam from 1964 to 1973, and subsequent U.S. conflicts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tactical_Air_Command (431 words)

	Air Combat Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Air Combat Command (ACC) is the (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force whose mission is to provide air combat forces (mostly aircraft), to other commands, including both commands within the Air Force as well as the that include elements from different branches of the armed forces.
		It was created 1 June 1992 out of the Tactical Air Command (which was thereby inactivated), but also picked up some elements formerly in the Strategic Air Command, such as bombers and ICBMs (although the ICBMs were transferred to the Air Force Space Command a year later).
		During 1941 and early 1942, the tactical air units of the War Department, formerly known as the GHQ Air Force, formed the Air Force Combat Command.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Air_Combat_Command (444 words)

	Tactical Air Command -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tactical Air Command was established 21 March 1946, along with the (Click link for more info and facts about Strategic Air Command) Strategic Air Command.
		TAC was heavily involved in the American war in (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) Vietnam from 1964 to 1973, and subsequent U.S. conflicts.
		The commands were consolidated as the (A command that is the primary provider of air combat weapon systems to the United States Air Force; operates fighter and bomber and reconnaissance and and battle-management and rescue aircraft) Air Combat Command on 1 June 1992, again under the command of General Loh.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tactical_air_command.htm (419 words)

	Tactical Air Command
		The Tactical Air Command was established on 21 Mar 1946.
		On 1 Dec 1948, TAC was reduced to an operational headquarters assigned to Continental Air Command.
		The 18th Air Force, TAC's troop carrier Air Force, was deactivated in January 1958 - the 12th AF was subsequently activated and took responsibility for the western half of the United States.
	www.zianet.com /jpage/airforce/history/majcoms/tac.html (313 words)

	Major Commands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Air Mobility Command is the USAF component of the United States Transportation Command.
		Continental Air Command also had charge of all Air Force reserve units because most of these forces were to be used in either air defense or tactical operations.
		Air Defense Command, inactivated on July 1, 1950, was reestablished as a major command on January 1, 1951, when CONAC ceased to handle the nation's air defense mission.
	www.au.af.mil /au/afhra/wwwroot/rso/major_commands.html (3399 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): Medium bomber and A-20 missions are cancelled by bad weather; fighter-bombers, operating on a reduced scale, hit gun positions along the S coast of France in preparation for the Allied invasion of S France (Operation DRAGOON).
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In France, medium bombers blast coastal defense guns in the Marseille area while A-20s during the night of 12/13 Aug attack targets along the Monaco-Toulon road, and fighter-bombers hit guns and barracks in the area; and fighters strafe airfields at Les Chanoines, Montreal, Avignon, La Jasse, Istres-Le-Tube, Valence, and Bergamo.
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In France, medium bombers hit gun emplacements in the Marseille area and the 111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, XII Tactical Air Command, moves from Borgo, Corsica to St Rahael with F-6s.
	paul.rutgers.edu /~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/Aug.44 (12211 words)

	SAC / Heritage / People / Robert Russ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tactical Air Command is also the gaining organization for 86,000 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel throughout the United States.
		After graduation from Air Command and Staff College in July 1965, he was assigned to Headquarters Air Defense Command, Colo. While there he served as a fighter officer in the Directorate of Tactical Evaluation and later as aide to the commander, Air Defense Command.
		The general was named vice commander of Tactical Air Command in October 1982 and in July 1983 became special assistant to the vice chief of staff, Washington, D.C. In October 1983 he became deputy chief of staff for research, development and acquisition at Air Force headquarters.
	www.wsu.edu /~sac/wsuheritage/people/robertruss.htm (614 words)

	Encyclopedia: Air Combat Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Air Combat Command (ACC) is the major command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force whose mission is to provide air combat forces (mostly aircraft), to other commands, including both commands within the Air Force as well as the unified commands that include elements from different branches of the armed forces.
		The Strategic Air Command or SAC was the branch of the United States Air Force in charge of Americas bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal, as well as the infrastructure necessary to support their operations (such as tanker aircraft to fuel the bombers and, until 1957...
		United States Strategic Command is one of the unified commands of the United States Department of Defense which controls the nuclear weapons assets of the United States military.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Air-Combat-Command (1072 words)

	USAAF Chronology: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS: First Tactical Air Force (Provisional): P-47 unit moves in Germany: 314th, 315th and 316th Fighter Squadrons, 324th Fighter Group, from Luneville, France to Stuttgart; 406th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, from Eschborn Airfield, Frankfurt to Furth.
		Ninth Air Force: The IX and XIX Tactical Air Commands patrol the Leipzig, Chemnitz, and Adorf, Germany and Linz, Austria areas, and fly sweeps and demonstration missions.
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Unit moves: HQ 70th Fighter Wing from Bruhl to Bad Wildungen, Germany; 556th, 557th, 558th and 559th Bombardment Squadrons (Medium), 387th Bombardment Group (Medium), from Beek, the Netherlands to Rosieres-en-Santerre, France with B-26s; 596th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 397th Bombardment Group (Medium), from Venlo, the Netherlands to Peronne, France with B-26s.
	members.aol.com /jlowry3402/may45.html (1830 words)

	Did USAF Technology Fail in Vietnam?
		This would allow Tactical Air Command to participate in nuclear warfare, which was the primary emphasis of the American military during this period.
		Another factor was that the tactics that had been developed for a short nuclear war proved costly and inappropriate in a long conventional air campaign fought against extensive ground-based air defenses.
		The Air Force that conducted successful operations in the 1972 Linebacker I and II campaigns was different than the one that met defeat earlier in Rolling Thunder.
	www.gunships.org /werrell.html (6708 words)

	Striving for Air Superiority: The Tactical Air Command in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Beginning with the former, Hannah’s thesis is that during the first two decades of the nuclear era, Tactical Air Command (TAC) failed to concentrate on the missions specified for it by the War Department in 1946.
		The reason was an "identity crisis" brought about by the dominance of nuclear deterrence in national security policy that led TAC to become a mini-Strategic Air Command in order to survive.
		TAC was stateside, in the business of structuring, training, and equipping the forces that it supplied to combatant commands, such as Pacific Air Forces in the case of the conflict in Vietnam.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/hannah.html (829 words)

	Biographies : GENERAL ROBERT JAMES DIXON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tactical Air Command is responsible for organizing, equipping and training assigned and attached tactical forces within the continental United States and is responsible for the combat readiness of 45 percent of Reserve/Air National Guard flying units.
		TAC maintains a reserve of combat ready fighter, drone, reconnaissance, and special operations forces capable of rapid worldwide deployment and operations.
		TAC trains the air and ground crews for the overseas commands of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and the Pacific; and is the lead command for the development and testing of doctrine, concepts, requirements, tactics and procedures for tactical air forces worldwide.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=5237 (744 words)

	20 Fighter Wing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Redesignated: 20 Fighter-Bomber Wing on 20 Jan 1950; 20 Tactical Fighter Wing on 8 Jul 1958; 20 Fighter Wing on 1 Oct 1991.
		Moved to England in May 1952 with a mission of maintaining proficiency for tactical operations with conventional and nuclear weapons in support of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operations in the European area.
		Participated in numerous tactical and electronic countermeasure exercises at many operating locations with other USAF and Allied organizations.
	afhra.maxwell.af.mil /wwwroot/rso/wings_groups_pages/0020fw.php (502 words)

	Striving for Air Superiority
		The advantages of tactical air power are obvious today as small wars and petty tyrants bedevil us, but in a Cold War world split between continental superpowers, strategic bombing took precedence, with calamitous consequences.
		TAC focus- ed primarily on the interdiction of enemy bombers and virtually ignored its other responsibilities.
		Hannah shows how a tactical air force that won a victory in World War II deteriorated into a second-rate force fly- ing aging aircraft during the early years of the Cold War, recovered briefly over Korea, then slid into obsolescence during the 1950s.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/2002/hannah.htm (357 words)

	Tactical Air Controllers Command Over Afghan Sky By Sgt. Frank Magni, USA
		Air Force joint tactical-air controllers can be found throughout Afghanistan -- planning, communicating and facilitating the execution of close- air support for ground forces.
		Located everywhere from tactical headquarters to operations with company-sized elements, JTAC personnel act as the liaison for all air support that comes from every service and all coalition partners.
		JTAC is also one of the few jobs in the Air Force that is so far forward on the battlefield, he said.
	www.globalspecialoperations.com /jtac.html (463 words)

	37:1160(100)CA - - Air Force, Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB, Virginia and Tactical Air Command, 27th Combat Support ...
		The General Counsel argued that Respondent Activity was acting at the direction of Respondent Command and that, consequently, Respondent Command violated section 7116(a)(1) and (5) by interfering with the bargaining relationship between the Union and Respondent Activity.
		The Judge granted the motion for summary judgment against Respondent Command based solely on the Respondents' admission in their answer that Madrid "was the agent of both the Activity and the Command." Judge's Decision at 5.
		He did not address directly the allegations of the complaint that Respondent Command violated section 7116(a)(1), (5) and (8) by establishing policy and issuing advice, instructions, and directions that caused Respondent Activity to refuse to furnish the requested information, and by interfering with the bargaining relationship between Respondent Activity and the Union.
	www.flra.gov /decisions/v37/37-100-4.html (2048 words)

	USAFE News Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tactical air control party teams descended upon Hurlburt Field to participate in the 14th annual weeklong contest, which tests the operational and combat abilities of tactical air command and control specialists.
		These teams are assigned as tactical air control party teams assigned to Army ground-maneuver units.
		A team's mission is to advise and assist unit commanders on the applications of combat air power from planning, requesting and directing air strikes against enemy targets in close proximity to friendly units.
	www.usafe.af.mil /news/news00/uns00322.htm (308 words)

	USAF Historical Study No. 71 - USAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Weyland attended both the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Ala., and the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., with next duty in Washington in June 1939 as assistant to the chief of Aviation Division in the National Guard Bureau.
		In July 1950 he was briefly commanding general of Tactical Air Command until going to Headquarters Far Eastern Air Force in Tokyo as vice commander for operations in the first full month of the Korean War.
		In April 1951 he returned to Tactical Air Command and was promoted to lieutenant general, and in June went back to Tokyo as commanding general of Far Eastern Air Forces and the United Nations Air Forces when Lieutenant General George Stratemeyer had a heart attack.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /cgi-bin/quiz.pl/history/korea/weyland.htm (534 words)

	Robert Dale Russ, General, United States Air Force
		General Robert D. Russ was commander of Tactical Air Command with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
		After graduation from Air Command and Staff College in July 1965, he was assigned to Headquarters Air Defense Command, Colorado.
		General Russ was vice commander of the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, from February 1974 until August 1975, when he became wing commander.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rdruss.htm (625 words)

	AllRefer.com - Spain - Air Force \| Spanish Information Resource
		The air force (Ejercito del Aire), with a personnel strength of 33,000 as of 1987, of whom about 18,000 were conscripts, was organized into four operational commands--combat, tactical, transport, and Canary Islands.
		The Canary Islands Air Command (Mando Aereo de Canarias--MACAN) was a mixed unit equipped to carry out multiple missions--interceptor, ground attack, transport, surveillance, and antisubmarine--at a distance of 1,500 kilometers from the mainland.
		Its air fleet included a squadron of Mirage F-1s armed for both interceptor and ground attack operations, a unit of ten CASA C-212 Aviocar light transports, and a squadron equipped for antisubmarine warfare with Fokker F-27 patrol aircraft and Aerospatiale AS-332B Super Puma helicopters.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/spain/spain165.html (751 words)

	USAAF Chronology: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Unit moves: HQ 406th Fighter Group and 512th, 513th and 514th Fighter Squadrons from Handorf to Nordholz, Germany with P-47s; 572d and 574th Bombardment Squadrons (Medium), 391st Bombardment Group (Medium), from Assche, Belgium to Vitry-en-Artois, France with A-26s and B-26s.
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Unit moves in Germany: 125th Liaison Squadron, IX Fighter Command (attached to Sixth Army Group), from Brunswick to Heidelberg with L-5s; 167th Liaison Squadron, XII Tactical Air Command, from Pfaffengrund to Darmstadt with L-5s.
		TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Unit moves in Germany: HQ IX Tactical Air Command from Weimar to Fritzlar; the 417th Night Fighter Squadron, 64th Fighter Wing, from Biblis to Braunschardt with Beaufighters.
	members.aol.com /jlowry3402/jun45.html (1356 words)

	Bergstrom AFB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bergstrom Air Force Base, on State Highway 71 seven miles east of Austin in Travis County, was activated on September 19, 1942, as Del Valle Army Air Base.
		It was constructed in the summer of 1942 on 3,000 acres leased from the city of Austin.
		After July 1966 it was under the control of the Tactical Air Command and housed the headquarters for the Twelfth Air Force, which was responsible for all Tactical Air Command reconnaissance, fighter, and airlift operations west of the Mississippi River.
	home.comcast.net /~mike.palazzolo/bergstrom_afb.htm (245 words)

	General Jerome F. O'Malley Biography
		General Jerome F. O'Malley was commander of Tactical Air Command, with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Va. His command comprises more than 113,000 military and civilian personnel, stationed at 18 major Tactical Air Command installations and other units in the United States, Panama, Okinawa and Iceland.
		Tactical Air Command is the gaining organization for 64,000 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel throughout the United States.
		The general was appointed vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force in June 1982 and in October 1983 was named commander in chief of the Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
	www.wvi.com /~sr71webmaster/omalley.html (575 words)

	May in Air Force History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tactical Air Command Troop Carrier Wings and Troop Carrier Squadrons were redesignated Tactical Airlift Wings and Squadrons.
		Sister Nancy Ann Eagan became the first Catholic nun to enter the Air Force Reserve when she was commissioned a first lieutenant.
		Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Ind. was renamed Grissom Air Force Base in honor of Astronaut Virgil Grissom, who died Jan. 27, 1967, in an Apollo capsule fire.
	www.afnews.af.mil /products/history/may.htm (1174 words)

	Achtung Jabos! The Story of the IX TAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 225th provided thousands of homings in darkness and bad weather to IX TAC pilots, and proudly wore the 9th USAAF patch on their left shoulders for most of their time in the ETO.
		The booklet was one of a series of "G.I. Stories of the Ground, Air and Service Forces in the European Theater of Operations," and was issued by the Stars and Stripes, a publication of the Information and Education Division, Special and Informational Services, ETOUSA.
		Major General Elmo R. ("Pete") Quesada, commanding the IX Tactical Air Command, lent his cooperation to the preparation of the pamphlet and basic material was supplied to the editors by his personnel.
	www.skylighters.org /ixtac (372 words)

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