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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 318th Operations Support Squadron is an operations support squadron located at

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, Texas.

Mission

The mission of the 318th Squadron is to "Deliver relevant, validated, tactics, intelligence, and synchronized capabilities to cyberspace warfighters while providing mission support throughout the

688th Cyberspace Wing The United States Air Force's 688th Cyberspace Wing is a cyberspace operations unit located at Joint Base San Antonio (Lackland), Texas. The wing delivers information operations and engineering infrastructure for air, space, and cyberspace mili ...

History

The squadron was first activated at Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina on 1 May 1943 as the 318th Airdrome Squadron. The squadron provided support to the

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, a Replacement Training Unit that trained replacement

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s using

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aircraft.Maurer, p. 184 However, the AAF was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving less well adapted to performing the training and support missions. Accordingly, a more functional system was adopted in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit. As a result, in 1944, the squadron was disbanded and merged into the 329th Army Air Force Base Unit (Replacement Training Unit, Medium, Bombardment). The squadron was reactivated in 2011, replacing the 23d Information Operations Squadron as the support organization for the 318th Information Operations Group.Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, December 2011, Maxwell AFB, AL

Lineage

* Constituted as the 318th Airdrome Squadron (Special) c. 13 April 1943 * Activated on 1 May 1943 * Disbanded on 1 May 1944 * Reconstituted on 10 November 2011 and redesignated 318th Operations Support Squadron * Activated on 7 December 2011

Assignments

* Probably

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, 1 May 1943 – 1 May 1944 * 318th Information Operations Group (later 318th Cyberspace Operations Group), 7 December 2011 – present

Stations

* Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina, 1 May 1943 – 1 May 1944 *

, Texas, 7 December 2011 – present

Campaigns

References

Notes

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External links

* {{US Air Force navbox Military units and formations in Texas

Information Operations Information Operations is a category of direct and indirect support operations for the United States Military. By definition in Joint Publication 3-13, "IO are described as the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network ...