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 (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)