: The 55th Maintenance Operations Squadron provides centralized direction of all maintenance staff functions providing support to world-wide aircraft reconnaissance missions.

* 91st Security Forces GroupThe 91st Security Forces Group provides command and control for three squadrons — the 791st Missile Security Forces Squadron, 91st Missile Security Forces Squadron and 91st Security Support Squadron — for the active defense of assets vital to national security.

Scientific Development Squadron ONE ( VXS-1 ), located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, which provides airborne research facilities to NRL as well as other agencies of the US Government, is also run out of the Executive Directorate.

The only remaining jets are the BAe Hawks of 100 Squadron which provides an air combat training service as well as support to the Joint Forward Air Control Training Support Unit ( JFACTSU ).

** 423 Maritime Helicopter Squadron is an operational squadron at Shearwater Heliport which provides CH-124 Sea King helicopters for Maritime Forces Atlantic warships.

** 12 Air Maintenance Squadron provides aircraft maintenance and engineering support to 12 Wing's operational squadrons.

** 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron is an operational squadron which provides CH-124 Sea King helicopters for Maritime Forces Pacific warships.

Support Squadron provides support staff to UKSF ( R ) activities including personnel such as drivers from the RLC, REME weapon technicians, combat medics, Intelligence Corps personnel and Ops room staff.

The Air Force Reserve Command's 403d Wing ( 403 WG ) is a tenant wing also located at Keesler and is an Air Mobility Command ( AMC )- gained composite unit which provides theater airlift support through the 815th Airlift Squadron and its C-130 Hercules aircraft, as well as serving as the parent unit to the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, a WC-130 unit known as the " Hurricane Hunters.

While NAS Fallon provides training for visiting Carrier air wings, the Strike Fighter Squadron 127 ( VFA-127 ), the " Desert Bogeys ", was the air station's only permanently based squadron from October 1987 until it was disestablished on March 23, 1996.

Two T-1A Jayhawk | T-1 s in the 99th Flying Training Squadron, which provides training for Combat Systems Officers.

The Squadron also provides specialist radar and data links courses for selected officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and airmen or airwomen and Pre-Employment Training courses for selected UK ASACS engineering officers, as resources permit.

The Cavalry Squadron provides a horse-mounted ceremonial presence at public and regimental events, to perpetuate Canadian cavalry traditions.

The base also houses 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 5 Service Battalion ( which also provides services from ASU Saint-Jean and CFB Montreal ), CI SQFT ( Land Force Quebec Area Training Centre ), in addition to providing training facilities for most Quebec-based reserve units.

Although 11 Amphibious Test and Trials Squadron based at this camp is part of 1 Assault Group Royal Marines from Poole it is an administered by the RMB Chivenor Base Support Regiment that provides messing and support facilities from Chivenor.

The 272d Engineering Installation Squadron, headquartered in La Porte, provides worldwide engineering, installation and relocation of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems.

The 273d Information Operations Squadron, located in San Antonio ( Port of San Antonio ), provides support to two active duty units ( 23d Information Operations Squadron and 346th Test Squadron ) conducting Information Operations tactics and testing to help defend United States Air Force networks.

The Grafenwöhr Army Airfield provides air flow to all air traffic requesting services including but not limited C-130's from the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein AB, Germany.

The United States Air Force 426th Air Base Squadron provides support to 220 U. S. service members and their families working in support of NATO ’ s Joint Warfare Center.

NAF Atsugi is also home to Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron ( Light ) 51 ( HSL-51 ), which provides detachments of SH-60B LAMPS Mk III helicopters to forward deployed U. S. Navy guided missile cruisers, guided missile destroyers and frigates homeported at nearby Naval Base Yokosuka.

Beatty was given command of the 5th Battle Squadron to replace a squadron of battlecruisers away for training.

) Although formerly operated by the U. S. Navy and known as NAVSPASUR ( short for " Naval Space Surveillance "), command passed to the Air Force 20th Space Control Squadron on October 1, 2004.

Utilizing flash spotting, sound ranging and aerial reconnaissance from No. 16 Squadron, and Balloon Company of the Royal Flying Corps in the week before the battle, the counter battery artillery under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew McNaughton fired 125, 900 shells, harassing an estimated 83 % of the German gun positions.

Upon their return from Thyferra, Antilles turned command over to Tycho Celchu and founded Wraith Squadron.

Then in February 1863 Dahlgren was promoted to Rear Admiral and took command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.

Dahlgren, took command of the South Pacific Squadron from Rear Admiral George F. Pearson, in 1867.

When he was relieved of the command of the Squadron in 1869, he returned to the Washington Navy Yard where he served until his death in 1870.

* September 5, 1864, offered command of the North Atlantic Blocking Squadron, but he declined.

* Charles C. Carpenter ( 1834 – 1899 ), United States Navy rear admiral, rose to command of the Asiatic Squadron

Until 28 July 2010, the U. S. Air Force's 21st Space Operations Squadron was also a tenant command at Moffett Field, occupying the former Onizuka Air Force Station.

In the Royal Air Force, free married quarters cleaning services were phased out for all officers except Squadron Leaders or above in command appointments as of 1 April 1972.

: The Wing commander ’ s staff consists of a vice commander, an executive officer, a secretary, a director of staff, a wing inspector general, a command chief-master sergeant, a historian, information management, protocol, public affairs, legal, chapel, military equal opportunity, wing plans, treaty compliance, safety, honor guard, the 28th Comptroller Contracting Squadron and a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator.

The 28th Operations Group has three squadrons under its command to assist in accomplishing its mission — the 28th Operations Support Squadron, the 34th Bomb Squadron and the 37th Bomb Squadron.

In April 1943, 1st SAS was divided into two with 250 men from the SAS and the Small Scale Raiding Force, forming the Special Boat Squadron under command Major the Earl Jellicoe.

Jacen also takes command of Rogue Squadron while it participates in the blockade of Corellia.

In World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force, training as a sergeant radio operator and gunner and serving with No. 76 Squadron RAF under the command of Leonard Cheshire.

* Instead of all of Gibson's tour-expired crew at 106 Squadron volunteering to follow him to his new command, only his wireless operator, Hutchinson, went with him to 617 Squadron.

Upon recovery in March 1942 he was promoted to Squadron Leader and given command of No. 64 Squadron RAF.

Then NTPF became the Afloat Prepositioning Force ( AFP ) and eventually Maritime Prepositioning ship Squadron Two ( MPSRON 2 ) consisting of 20 deep-water pre-positioned logistics ships anchored in the lagoon.

Additionally, during that same month, the wing reorganized as a " combat wing ": the 97th Support Group became the 97th Mission Support Group, gaining the new 97th Logistics Readiness Squadron ( comprising the former 97th Supply Squadron, 97th Transportation Squadron and logistics plans flight ) and the 97th Contracting Squadron.

On about 18 April 1942, Walter Maiersperger, the Commanding Officer of 33 Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Force's 22nd Bomb Group, carried out an aerial reconnaissance flight over the Iron Range area.

With Villers-Bocage in British hands A Squadron 4CLY motored ahead to Point 213 without additional reconnaissance, according to their instructions.

* March 29 – The United States Navy disbands United States Naval Reserve Light Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 206 ( VFP-206 ), its last squadron equipped with specialized photographic reconnaissance aircraft and the last equipped with any version of the Vought F-8 Crusader.

With the reassignment of the heavy bombers, the 41st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron flew long-range reconnaissance aircraft ( F-4 P-38 Lightnings ) from the field until January 1946.

During his first tour of duty, on his first deployment, Carpenter flew Lockheed P2V Neptunes for Patrol Squadron Six ( VP-6 ) on reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare ( ASW ) missions during the Korean War.

In July 1916, he was posted to No. 7 Squadron, where he flew on bombing, reconnaissance and photographic operations during the Battle of the Somme.

By the middle of June, the No. 1 Australian Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, had begun active service, with " B " Flight at Suez performing reconnaissance.

With the contraction of the Air Force in peacetime, life at Leuchars returned to a more gentle pace, hosting a school for general reconnaissance and the St Andrews University Air Squadron complete with de Havilland Tiger Moth.

Because of the reconnaissance activity of the 435th Bomb Squadron, the US Navy was prepared to cope adequately with the situation.

** 512th Bombardment Squadron ( January-August 1950 ) Operated the B / RB / WB-29 aircraft and flew weather reconnaissance missions.

** 56th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron ( September 1951-July 1972 ) Replaced the 512th Bomb Squadron in their weather reconnaissance mission.

#* A single tactical reconnaissance squadron No. 6 Squadron IAF equipped with the Hurricane Mk. IIb

Following a navigator / bombardier course in the fall of 1941 and a brief stint on anti-submarine patrol duty with the 6th Reconnaissance Squadron at Muroc AAB, Elliott received a top-secret assignment to carry out clandestine reconnaissance flights over the Sahara, with emphasis on French West Africa, with which the United States was not at war.

* Late June – The British aircraft carrier HMS Argus delivers Fleet Air Arm Supermarine Walrus flying boats of No. 701 Squadron to Iceland, where they will begin antisubmarine and reconnaissance patrols following the British occupation of Iceland to preempt any possible German invasion of the island.

* May 5 – Royal Air Force Mustang Mark I – the British version of the North American P-51A Mustang – tactical reconnaissance aircraft of No. 26 Squadron see combat over the English Channel.

* March 16 – United States Army aircraft fly their first mission over foreign soil when Curtiss JN-3s of the 1st Aero Squadron carry out reconnaissance over Mexico.

* January 14 – A U. S. Navy F-4B Phantom II of Fighter Squadron 161 ( VF-161 ) off flown by Lieutenant V. T. Kovaleski ( pilot ) and Ensign D. H. Plautz ( radar intercept officer ) becomes the last American aircraft lost over North Vietnam when it is shot down by antiaircraft artillery near Thanh Hoa while escorting an Operation Blue Tree reconnaissance mission.

* Vulcan SR. Mk 2, strategic reconnaissance version of the Avro Vulcan, with No. 27 Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, Royal Air Force

The first mission by an American squadron across the lines occurred April 11, when the 1st Aero Squadron, led by its commander, Major Ralph Royce, flew a photo reconnaissance mission to the vicinity of Apremont.

The U. S. Navy's VW-4 / WEARECORON FOUR Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Four, " Hurricane Hunters " was the seventh U. S. Navy squadron dedicated to weather reconnaissance.

The Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is currently based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, and the majority of all of the reconnaissance flights are based from Keesler.

The first unit to be based at the field was the 31st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, flying the F-6, a reconnaissance version of the P-51 Mustang.