List of United States Air Force weather squadrons

The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons.

Weather Squadrons

Squadron	Shield	Location	Note
1st Weather Squadron		Fort Lewis
2d Weather Squadron		Offutt AFB
3d Weather Squadron		Fort Hood	Aligned with the III Corps, (US Army). Usually recognized as being less tactically proficient than the 18th Weather Squadron.
4th Weather Squadron		Maxwell AFB
5th Weather Squadron			Units active during Vietnam War
6th Weather Squadron (Mobile)		Tinker AFB
7th Weather Squadron		Lucius D. Clay Kaserne
8th Weather Squadron
9th Weather Squadron		Shaw AFB	Reactivated as 9th Operational Weather Squadron
10th Weather Squadron		Hurlburt Field	Redesignated 10th Combat Weather Squadron on April 1, 1996
11th Weather Squadron
12th Weather Squadron
13th Weather Squadron
14th Weather Squadron		Asheville, North Carolina
15th Weather Squadron
16th Weather Squadron		Offutt AFB
17th Weather Squadron		Hickam AFB	Redesignated 17 OWS
18th Weather Squadron		Fort Bragg, North Carolina	The One-Eight. Aligned with the XVIII Airborne Corps, (US Army)
19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron[1]		Afghanistan	See 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group
20th Weather Squadron
21st Weather Squadron		Kapaun Air Station
23d Weather Squadron
24th Weather Squadron		Webb AFB, Big Spring Texas (closed)
25th Weather Squadron
26th Weather Squadron		Barksdale AFB
28th Weather Squadron
29th Weather Squadron
30th Weather Squadron		Vandenberg AFB, California	HQ at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam during war
31st Weather Squadron		former HQ Sembach AB	USAFE stations under 2nd Weather Wing
32d Weather Squadron
33d Weather Squadron
35th Weather Squadron
45th Weather Squadron		Patrick AFB, Florida	Performs weather assessments for Shuttle launches at Kennedy Space Center
46th Weather Squadron		Eglin AFB, Florida
88th Weather Squadron		Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
607th Weather Squadron		Yongsan Garrison, South Korea

Operational Weather Squadrons

Squadron	Shield	Location	Nickname	Note
9th Operational Weather Squadron		Shaw AFB		The 9 OWS inactivated on 31 May 2008 and merged with the 26th Operational Weather Squadron located on Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.
11th Operational Weather Squadron		Elmendorf AFB		Inactivated on 13 June 2008; operations consolidated with 17th OWS
15th Operational Weather Squadron		Scott AFB	"Thunderbolts"
17th Operational Weather Squadron		Hickam AFB	"Geckos"
20th Operational Weather Squadron		Yokota AB	"Samurais"	Inactivated April 2006; operations consolidated with 17th OWS [2]
21st Operational Weather Squadron		Kapaun Air Station	"Knights"
25th Operational Weather Squadron		Davis-Monthan AFB	"Bobcats"
26th Operational Weather Squadron		Barksdale AFB	"Bayou Bandits"
28th Operational Weather Squadron		Shaw AFB	"Owls"

Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons

Miscellaneous Weather Squadrons

See also

• List of United States Air Force squadrons

References

1. ↑ Factsheet: 19 Expeditionary Weather Squadron, AFHRA
2. ↑ 20 OWS History Page (w1vxa.us)

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