The 195th Wing is a unit of the California Air National Guard, stationed at Beale Air Force Base, California. If mobilized, the wing would be assigned to Air Force Space Command. It comprises seven subordinate units at five locations throughout the state. The 195th controls all non-flying, non-kinetic operations for the California Air National Guard.[2] The wing was activated as the headquarters for California Air National Guard space, cyber, and intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance units.
Today the wing's mission is to train, deploy and employ its airmen and assets to deliver integrated space, cyber, and intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance capabilities to the Combatant Commands and the Governor of California.[2]
216th Space Control Squadron (Vandenberg Air Force Base, California) - the federal mission of the 216th is to provide combat space superiority effects to the Commander, Combined Force Space Component Command and Space Operations Command under U.S. Space Force, and theater combatant commanders.[3] The unit’s space operators deploy globally to conduct mobile and transportable space superiority and evaluate and operate new counter-space technologies.
In August 2015, the California Air National Guard announced that it was forming a new wing to manage its military intelligence, space, cyber and combat communications missions. The core of the new wing would be the 162d Combat Communications Group, which would be inactivated when the wing stood up.[2][4] Preparations for establishing the wing went back as far as 2001, when the 162d Group added units whose mission complemented its core combat communications mission.[2]
195th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, 1 September 2015 – present[2]
195th Operations Group, 1 September 2015 – present[2]
Squadrons
195th Air Transport Squadron (later 195th Military Airlift Squadron, 195th Tactical Airlift Squadron), by November 1962 – 14 April 1970, 15 May 1971 – 30 September 1974
195th Combat Support Squadron, 15 May 1971 – 30 September 1974
195th Supply Squadron, 15 May 1971 – 30 September 1974
Flights
195th Aerial Port Flight, 15 May 1971 – 30 September 1974
195th Civil Engineering Flight, 15 May 1971 – 30 September 1974
195th Communications Flight, 15 May 1971 – 30 September 1974
195th Comptroller Flight, 1 September 2015 – present[2]
195th Force Support Flight, 1 September 2015 – present[2]
Medical
195th Tactical Dispensary (later 195th Tactical Clinic), 15 May 1971 – 30 September 1974
Rosenfeld, Susan; Gross, Charles J. (2007). Air National Guard at 60: A History(PDF). Bolling AFB, DC: Air National Guard History Office. Archived from the original(PDF) on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
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