The
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...
's 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group (438 AEAG) is assigned to the
438th Air Expeditionary Wing of
USAFCENT
The Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is the Air Force Service Component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a joint De ...
and is stationed at
Kabul Airport
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, Afghanistan.
The 438th Air Expeditionary Group stood up on in November 2008 at
Kabul Airport
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, Afghanistan to train fixed and rotary wing aircrew and maintenance me.
History
Global War On Terrorism
The 438th Air Expeditionary Group was activated as part of the Global
War On Terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international Counterterrorism, counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campa ...
in 2008.
Lineage
* Constituted as the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group on 23 October 2008
: Activated on 1 November 2008
Assignments
*
438th Air Expeditionary Wing, 2008–present
Components
* 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron - renamed 311th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, February 2016, to follow in the traditions of
No. 311 (Czech) Squadron RAF
No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF was a Czechoslovak-manned bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. It was the RAF's only Czechoslovak-manned medium and heavy bomber squadron. It suffered the heaviest losses of any Cze ...
under
Czech Air Force
"The air is our sea"
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command. The 311 Squadron was disbanded in February 2019.
* 439th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron
* 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron
*
538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron
The 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron is provisional unit of United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, and is currently located at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan.
Overview
The squadron was activated by Unit ...
* 738th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron
* Detachment 1 (
Jalalabad
Jalalabad (; Dari/ ps, جلالآباد, ) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jala ...
)
* Detachment 3 (
Mazar-e-Shariff
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Stations
:
Kabul Airport
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, Afghanistan, 1 November 2008 – present
Aircraft
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Mil Mi-17 Hip
The Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production at two factories, in Kazan and Ulan-Ude. It is known as the Mi-8M series in Russian service. ...
, Present
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Mil Mi-35 Hind, Present
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C-27A, Present
References
{{USAF Air Combat Command
Air expeditionary groups of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations established in 2008
Military advisory groups