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  • 436th Training Squadron

    The 436th Training Squadron provides formal training to Air Combat Command using 17 schools at Dyess and other programs exported directly to units for local training needs.Training includes air, ground and weapons safety, Air Force Aviation Resource Management System, classroom instructor training,

  • 552nd Air Control Group

     MISSIONThe 552nd Air Control Group is responsible for operations, maintenance, training, and combat support for three combat-coded Control and Reporting Centers. Additionally, the Group provides software and ground communications for the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System fleet. The group

  • 552nd Air Control Wing

    The 552nd Air Control Wing (ACW) is responsible to the commander of Air Combat Command for the operations, maintenance, logistics, training, and combat support of E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft as well as ground-based Control and Reporting Centers (CRCs). The wing

  • 552nd Maintenance Group

     The 552nd Maintenance Group is an operational unit of Air Combat Command's 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.MISSIONThe 552nd Maintenance Group directs logistics support of 31 E-3 Sentry aircraft valued at $15.5 billion, flying approximately 8,000 hours home-station and 6,900

  • 552nd Operations Group

     The 552nd Operations Group is a unit of Air Combat Command's 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, Okla.MISSIONThe 552nd Operations Group provides the Combat Air Force with airborne systems and personnel for surveillance, warning and control of strategic, tactical and special mission forces. The

  • 552nd Training Group

    The 552nd Training Group is a unit of Air Combat Command's 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.

  • Control and Reporting Center (CRC)

    MissionThe Control and Reporting Center is a mobile command, control, and communications radar element of the US Air Force theater air control system. The CRC integrates a comprehensive air picture via multiple data links from air-, sea-, and land-based sensors, as well as from its surveillance and

  • E-3 Sentry (AWACS)

    MISSIONThe E-3 Sentry is an airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft that provides all-weather surveillance, command, control and communications needed by commanders of U.S. and NATO air defense