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until it was inactivated in 2013.

Mission

The

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provided tactical air command and control of airpower assets to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and

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for combat operations. It deployed personnel and command, control, communications, and computer ( C4) systems and associated support equipment and materiel in order to establish an Air Support Operations Center) as part of the

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and providing airpower support to US Army

History

Lineage

* Constituted as the 4th Air Support Operations Squadron on 1 September 1996 : Activated on 30 September 1996 : Inactivated on 13 September 2013

Assignments

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, 30 September 1996 – 13 September 2013

Stations

* Sullivan Barracks, Mannheim, Germany, 30 September 1996 – 13 September 2013

References

Notes

Bibliography

{{Air force infantry Air support operations squadrons of the United States Air Force