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Parent topics
- United States Air Force [r]: One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles [e]
- Unified Combatant Command [r]: Operational line-of-commands for United States military groups. [e]
- United States Joint Forces Command [r]: A source of "surge" planners and staff, while helping organize the mission-focused joint task force that will address the specific need of other U.S. Unified Combatant Commands [e]
Subtopics
- First Air Force [r]: The numbered air force that is the air component of United States Northern Command [e]
- Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
- Ninth Air Force [r]: The air component command of United States Central Command, as well as an intermediate headquarters for a number of U.S.-based units of Air Combat Command. [e]
- Twelfth Air Force [r]: United States Air Force intermediate command responsible for Air Combat Command fighter and bomber aircraft in the western United States, and is also the Air Component for the Unified Combatant Command, United States Southern Command [e]
- United States Air Force Warfare Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Langley Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
Predecessors
- Strategic Air Command [r]: A former major headquarters of the United States Air Force, whose planning and contingency operations are now part of United States Strategic Command, while its aircraft readiness is under Air Combat Command and its missile readiness under Air Force Space Command [e]
- Tactical Air Command [r]: In the United States Air Force, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Combat Command, preparing on tactical combat aircraft and aircraft that directly supported them [e]
Equivalents in other services
- Forces Command [r]: United States Army headquarters, at Fort McPherson, Georgia, for Active Component and Reserve forces in the continental United States, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and performs training readiness oversight of all National Guard (United States) formations; after mobilization, takes command and control of Army National Guard (United States) and U.S. Army Reserve units preparing for deployment to the Unified Combatant Commands (UCC); when a unit is not assigned to a UCC, it reports to this organizations or one of its subcommands; subordinate to United States Joint Forces Command [e]
- U.S. Fleet Forces Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marine Forces Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
