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  2. Structure of the United States Air Force - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft are "owned" by the squadron's parent wing's maintenance group, while the operational squadrons and their aircrews belong to the wing's operations group.) A squadron is usually commanded by a major (O-4) or lieutenant colonel (O-5); however lieutenant colonel is the most common rank for the squadron commander (SQ/CC) of most types ...

  3. 412th Test Wing - Wikipedia

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    412th Maintenance Group (412 MXG) [4] Through a maintenance group of over 2,000 people and an operations group of 3,000, the 412th Test Wing maintains and flies an average of 90 aircraft with upwards of 30 different aircraft designs and performs over 7,400 missions (over 1,900 test missions) on an annual basis.

  4. List of United States Marine Corps aviation support units

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    GCA Unit 37M was designated as such on 6 March 1947 and became operational at MCAS EL Toro on 10 March 1947. The first of its kind in the Marine Corps. The unit was redesignated as MATCU-66 on 1 January 1955. [60] MATCU-71 was formed in 1962 when Marine Air Control Squadron 16 was decommissioned at NAS Twin Cities.

  5. United States Army Ordnance Corps - Wikipedia

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    The United States Army Ordnance Corps, formerly the United States Army Ordnance Department, is a sustainment branch of the United States Army, headquartered at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps is to supply Army combat units with weapons and ammunition, including at times their procurement and maintenance.

  6. Pentomic - Wikipedia

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    Pentomic. Pentomic (cf. Greek pent (e)- + -tome "of five parts") was a structure for infantry and airborne divisions adopted by the US Army between 1957 and 1963, in response to the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, on future battlefields. It was intended that the five subordinate units, which were often referred to as battle groups ...

  7. Air Operations Center - Wikipedia

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    There are five divisions in the AOC. These separate, but distinct, organizations fuse information that eventually becomes the Air Tasking Order.Staffing of these divisions consists primarily of USAF officers of various specialities in the ranks of captain, major and lieutenant colonel, supported by a smaller cohort of enlisted airmen, typically in the rank of staff sergeant and above.

  8. Military organization - Wikipedia

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    Military organization (AE) or military organisation (BE) is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer such military capability as a national defense policy may require. Formal military organization tends to use hierarchical forms (see Modern hierarchy for terminology and approximate troop strength per hierarchical unit).

  9. Division (military) - Wikipedia

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    The regular forces of the ground forces consist of 18 group armies: corps-size combined arms units each with 24,000–50,000 personnel. The group armies contained among them: 25 infantry divisions; 9 armored divisions; 2 artillery divisions; As of 2011, the PLA went from a division-dominated structure to a brigade-dominated one.