The
squadron was activated at
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia on 1 September 1959 as the
22d Air Defense Missile Squadron (BOMARC) and stood alert during the
Cold War. It was equipped with IM-99A (later
CIM-10) BOMARC
surface to air antiaircraft missiles. It became operational with the IM-99A in September 1960, and upgraded to the IM-99B in October 1961. The squadron was tied into the Washington
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) direction center which used analog computers to process information from ground radars, picket ships and airborne aircraft to accelerate the display of tracking data at the direction center to quickly direct the missile battery to engage hostile aircraft. The 22d became nonoperational o 1 October 1972 and was inactivated on 31 October 1972. The BOMARC missile site was located west-northwest of Langley at . Although geographically separated from the base, it received administrative and logistical support from Langley. ==Lineage==