Talk:7th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron

Transition of 7 ACCS name from Keesler AFB to Offutt AFB

During the General McPeak era (1990 - 1994) of the Air Force, there were many organizational and unit name changes in the USAF. For one of those changes, an Air Force board decided to transfer the 7 ACCS's planes, personnel, etc. from Keesler AFB to Davis-Monthan AFB in order to consolidate the EC-130s. The 41st Electronic Combat Squadron (ECS) and the 43 ECS were already at Davis-Monthan AFB flying the Compass Call electronic warfare mission, so this Air Force board decided to re-designate the squadron flying the ABCCC mission EC-130s as the 42 ACCS which has since (in 2002 when the ABCCC retired) been re-designated the 42 ECS and conducts the training mission for Compass Call.
The board also decided that the 7 ACCS had too significant of a combat lineage (campaign streamers from Vietnam & Desert Storm) to be inactivated, so instead they chose to inactivate the 2 ACCS, which was after all only flying around in circles over the United States for 24 years (NOTE: this is sarcasm). Within 2 days in July 1994, the 7 ACCS was redesignated the 42 ACCS and the 2 ACCS was redesignated the 7 ACCS. The planes and people moved from Keesler AFB to Davis-Monthan AFB and the name "7 ACCS" moved to Offutt AFB.
During the time that 7 ACCS was flying EC-135 Looking Glass missions, the squadron was also looking to broaden its mission taskings particularly in the area of tactical and operational C2. As a result, 7 ACCS was involved in the planning and execution of the initial phase of Operation Uphold Democracy; 7 ACCS EC-135 aircraft were in-flight with mission commanders of the 82d Airborne Division whose troops were also in-flight/enroute to Haiti when the airborne invasion was called off.
In less than 5 years at Offutt AFB (July 1994-Oct 1998), the 7 ACCS's Looking Glass mission was transferred to the Navy E-6s, the EC-135s were retired, and the 7 ACCS was inactivated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Air Power Geek (talk • contribs) 22:38, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Copyedit please

I have an email from a veteran to WP:OTRS (Ticket:2014013010015748 ) to the following effect:

I was stationed at Keesler AFB from 1987-1992 in the USAF assigned to support the ec-130's that carried the ABCCC II and III command posts assigned to the 7th ACCS.

The articles on the Wikipedia website - address given in subject area of this email - have discrepancies. Some are just blatantly incorrect.

I do know that the 7th ACCS did move from Keesler AFB to Davis-Mothan AFB in Arizona in 1994. They did not move to Offutt, Nebraska as the Wikipedia reference says they did.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/42accs.htm

Any updates would be appreciated, the gent in question finds the prospect of editing Wikipedia rather daunting. Thanks, Guy (Help!) 09:29, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

According to the US Air Force's official records the squadron did move to Offutt AFB in 1994. Reference the Air Force Historical Research Agency's fact sheet on the squadron: http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=16903 The 42nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron refered to in the Global Security article is a different unit per the Air Force; reference: http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10242 Ndunruh (talk) 09:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

I have corrected my earlier edit. I (and the veteran that e-mail OTRS) misread the globalsecurity.org material. The control center was moved to Davis-Monthan while this squadron was moved to Offut. The AFHRA link would be the doctrinally-reliable source, anyway. Thanks for the heads-up. Chris Troutman (talk) 07:10, 8 February 2014 (UTC)