732nd Air Expeditionary Group

732nd Air Expeditionary Group

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 732d Air Expeditionary Wing


caption= 732d Air Expeditionary Group emblem
dates= 2007 - Present
country= United States
allegiance=
branch= United States Air Force
type= Air Expeditionary Group
role=
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current_commander= Colonel Karl S. Bosworth
garrison= Balad AB, Iraq
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motto= Combat Airpower with a Hooah...Right Here, Right Now!
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The 732d Air Expeditionary Group (732 AEG) provides oversight and advocacy for roughly 1,800 Air Force personnel spread across six squadrons who are tactically assigned to U.S. Army and Marine units throughout Iraq. These Airmen include security forces, civil engineers, lawyers, interrogators, military working dog teams, intelligence specialists, and airfield managers. These Airmen are under tactical, or day to day, control of Army and Marine units, while administratively and operationally controlled by the 732nd AEG. [http://www.balad.afnews.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4032]

Lineage

* Established as 32d Air Base Group (Reinforced) on 20 Nov 1940.
* Activated on 15 Jan 1941.
* Redesignated: 32d Air Base Group on 6 Nov 1941; 32 Service Group on 13 Jun 1942.
* Disbanded on 11 Jun 1945.
* Reestablished, redesignated 732d Expeditionary Mission Support Group, and converted to provisional status, on 14 Jan 2004.

Honors

* Service Streamers: World War II American Theater

* Campaign Streamers.
** World War II:
*** Normandy 1944
*** Northern France 1944
*** Rhineland 1944-1945
*** Central Europe 1945

* Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None

* Decorations. Meritorious Unit Citation: England, France, Belgium, 18 Jan-30 Nov 1944.

Assignments

* GHQ Air Force (later, Air Force Combat Command), 15 Jan 1941
* 4th Air Force Service (later, 4th Air Base) Command, 1 Oct 1941
* Western Theater of Operations, Air Service Command, 30 Dec 1941
* Mobile Air Service Area Command, c. Jan 1943
* United States Strategic Air Forces In Europe, 28 Jan 1944
* IX Air Force Service Command, 4 Feb 1944-11 Jun 1945

Stations

* March Field, CA, 15 Jan 1941
* Dale Mabry Field, FL, 31 Dec 1942
* Venice AAFId, FL, 9 Oct 1943-27 Dec 1943
* Zeals, England, 31 Jan 1944
* Kingsnorth, England, 11 Mar 1944
* Brucheville, France, 8 Jul 1944
* Le Mans, France, 29 Aug 1944
* Athis, France, 30 Sep 1944
* Juvincourt, France, 6 Oct 1944
* Le Culot, France, 27 Oct 1944
** Detachment A
*** Aachen, Germany, 29 Mar 1945
*** Niedermendig, Germany, 9 Apr 1945
*** Kassel, Germany, 22 Apr-11 Jun 1945
** Detachment B
*** Venio, Netherlands, 16 Mar 1945
*** Lippstadt, Germany, 23 Apr 1945
*** Munich, Germany, 26 May-11 Jun 1945
** Detachment C
*** Charleroi, Belgium, 20 Mar 1945
*** Maastricht, Netherlands, c. Mar 1945
*** Wiesbaden, Germany, 20 Apr-11 Jun 45


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