The 4th Air Support Operations Group (4 ASOG) is an active unit of the

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, assigned to the

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. It is stationed at the Lucius D. Clay Kaserne in

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, Germany. The group's members mainly support

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units by providing Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) airmen to army units, as well as providing weather support in Europe and Africa. Airmen from the 4th ASOG also serve as trainers at the

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in Hohenfels, Germany.

Assigned units

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(2 ASOS) (

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, Germany) * 7th Combat Weather Squadron (7 CWS)

Lineage

* Constituted as the 4th Communications Squadron, Air Support on 15 May 1942 : Activated on 5 June 1942 : Redesignated 4th Air Support Communication Squadron on 11 January 1943 : Redesignated 4th Air Support Control Squadron on 20 August 1943 : Redesignated 4th Tactical Air Communications Squadron on 1 April 1944 : Inactivated on 5 June 1947 : Disbanded on 8 October 1948 * Reconstituted and consolidated with the 601st Air Support Operations Group on 8 February 1988 : Redesignated 601st Air Support Operations Center Group on 8 March 1984 : Activated on 15 March 1984 : Redesignated 601st Air Support Operations Group on 1 May 1985 : Redesignated 4th Air Support Operations Group on 1 March 1988 : Inactivated on 1 July 1994 : Activated on 1 August 1996

Assignments

* IV Ground Air (later, IV Air) Support Command, 5 June 1942 * Desert Training Center, 21 January 1943 *

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, 7 September 1943 *

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, 16 November 1943 * IX Fighter Command, 19 November 1943 * IX Air Support Command, 12 December 1943 * XIX Air Support (later, XIX Tactical Air) Command, 4 March 1944 * XII Tactical Air Command, 4 July 1945 – 5 June 1947 * 601st Tactical Control Wing, 15 March 1984 * 65th Air Division, 1 June 1985 (attached to

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for operational control, 31 October 1985 – 14 March 1986) * Seventeenth Air Force, 15 March 1986 – 1 July 1994 *

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, 1 August 1996 *

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, 1 November 2005 * Third Air Force, 1 December 2006 *

, 16 July 2009 – present

Stations

* Hamilton Field, California, 5 June 1942 * Camp Young, California, 4 November 1942 * Thermal AAB, California, 12 February 1943 *

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, New Jersey, 29 October 1943 – 5 November 1943 * Scotland, 16 November 1943 * Aldermaston Court, England, 3 December 1943 * Criqueville, France, 10 July 1944 * Nehou, France, circa 13 July 1944 * St Germain, France, 17 August 1944 *

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, France, 31 August 1944 * Chalons-sur-Marne, France, circa 14 September 1944 * Étain, France, 23 September 1944 * Nancy, France, 5 October 1944 *

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, Luxembourg, 7 January 1945 * Idar Oberstein, Germany, 27 March 1945 *

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, Germany, 3 April 1945 * Hersfeld, Germany, 11 April 1945 *

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, Germany, 23 April 1945 *

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, Germany 1 November 1945 *

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, Germany, 29 August 1946 – 5 June 1947 *

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, Germany, 15 March 1984 – 1 July 1994 *

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, Germany, 1 August 1996 *

, Germany 31 March 2013 – present

References

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