Cold War fighter wing The wing was first activated as the
312th Fighter-Bomber Wing at
Clovis Air Force Base, New Mexico in the fall of 1954. The 312th was assigned to
Ninth Air Force upon activation. In October 1957, as part of a realignment of
Tactical Air Command (TAC)'s numbered air forces on a geographical, rather than a functional basis, the 312th was transferred to
Eighteenth Air Force. Subsequently, it was placed under the
832d Air Division. The 312th furnished units for composite air strike forces in the
Far East during 1957 and 1958, deploying F-100s and crews to Taiwan during the
1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. Wing F-100s also deployed to Turkey during the
1958 Lebanon crisis. HQ USAF redesignated the 312th as a Tactical Fighter Wing on 1 July 1958 as part of an Air Force-wide redesignation of Fighter-Bomber and Fighter-Day units. In February 1959 as
Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas was transferred to
Strategic Air Command, TAC moved the
27th Tactical Fighter Wing on paper to Cannon, where it assumed the 312th's mission, personnel and aircraft. The 312th TFW was inactivated.
Attack and fighter systems development In 2004,
Air Force Materiel Command began to reorganize its traditional directorates into wings and groups, activating the
Fighter Attack Systems Wing at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The following year, it consolidated this new wing with the 312th, designating it the
312th Aeronautical Systems Wing. In 2010, Materiel Command returned to its traditional organization and the wing was inactivated. ==Lineage==