The 702d Radar Squadron is an inactive

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...

unit. It was last assigned to the

20th Air Division The 20th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Tactical Air Command at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida where it was inactivated on 1 March 1983. During most of the division's history it ...

Aerospace Defense Command Aerospace Defense Command was a major command of the United States Air Force, responsible for air defense of the continental United States. It was activated in 1968 and disbanded in 1980. Its predecessor, Air Defense Command, was establishe ...

, stationed at Savannah Air Force Station, Georgia. It was inactivated on 5 June 1979. The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.

Lineage

* Established as the 702d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron * Activated on 1 December 1953 * Redesignated 702d Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 February 1962 * Redesignated 702d Radar Squadron on 1 February 1974 * Inactivated on 5 June 1979

Assignments

* 35th Air Division, 1 December 1953 * 32d Air Division, 15 November 1958 * Montgomery Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1961 * 32d Air Division, 1 April 1966 * 33d Air Division, 14 November 1969 * 20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 5 June 1979

Stations

Dobbins AFB Dobbins Air Reserve Base or Dobbins ARB is a United States Air Force reserve air base located in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb about northwest of Atlanta. Originally known as Dobbins Air Force Base, it was named in honor of Captain Charles M ...

, Georgia, 1 December 1953 * Hunter AFB (redesignated: Savannah Air Force Station, Georgia 1 April 1967) 1 March 1955 – 5 June 1979

References

* Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., ''A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980''

Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980). * Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., ''Searching the Skies'', The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program

US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).

External links

{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2017 Radar squadrons of the United States Air Force Aerospace Defense Command units