70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing

, Maryland, home of the 70th ISR Wing. The wing's mission is to provide multi-source, multi-service intelligence products for the Department of Defense (DoD) by gaining and exploiting information as a major component of the Air Force and DoD global intelligence mission. It trains and equips cryptologic and information operations specialists to carry out Air Force ISR Agency and National Security Agency joint-service operations. The wing has six groups, 19 squadrons, 10 detachments and 26 operating locations spanning four continents. The wing falls under the Sixteenth Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. 543d Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group is based at the Medina Annex, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. A unique group within the wing. Organized according to mission, rather than by geography, the 543rd ISR Group has two squadrons within the United States that are part of Regional Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Operations Centers. Providing command and control, personnel, communications, computer and logistics support for all Regional SIGINT Operations Centers conducting information operations, the 543rd ISR Group provides timely and accurate multi-regional SIGINT to warfighters and other intelligence users. ==Component units==

Unless otherwise indicated, units are based at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, and subordinate units are located at the same location as their commanding group. Wing Staff • 70th Operations Support Squadron 373rd Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group (Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska) • 301st Intelligence Squadron • 381st Intelligence Squadron • Detachment 1 (Yokota Air Base, Japan) 543rd Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group (Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas) • 93rd Intelligence Squadron • 531st Intelligence Support Squadron • 668th Alteration and Installation Squadron 544th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group (Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado) • 18th Intelligence Squadron • 26th Intelligence Squadron • 566th Intelligence Squadron 659th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group • 5th Intelligence Squadron (Fort Gordon, Georgia) • 7th Intelligence Squadron • 35th Intelligence Squadron (Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas) • 37th Intelligence Squadron (Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii) • 41st Intelligence Squadron • 75th Intelligence Squadron (Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas) 691st Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group • 22nd Intelligence Squadron • 29th Intelligence Squadron • 34th Intelligence Squadron 707th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group • 32nd Intelligence Squadron • 94th Intelligence Squadron • 707th Communications Squadron • 707th Force Support Squadron ==History==

The 70th ISR Wing has its origins in the World War II 70th Reconnaissance Group, which was activated at Gray Army Airfield in September 1941. The 70th Reconnaissance Group was originally a Fourth Air Force training unit in observation and artillery adjustment, supporting Army ground units at Fort Lewis. After the Pearl Harbor Attack, the unit began antisubmarine patrols along the Pacific Coast, The 70th SRW's mission was to gather intelligence on a global scale as part of the strategic reconnaissance force of SAC. and assigned it to the 19th Air Division. The wing was assigned the 4123d Air Base Squadron, which had been the host unit at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, Oklahoma since July 1955, preparing Clinton-Sherman, a former World War II Naval Air Station, to receive operational SAC aircraft plus the 98th Bombardment Squadron (BS), consisting of 15 Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses, which had been one of the three squadrons of the 7th Bombardment Wing and a maintenance squadron Within a week the 98th Bombardment Squadron joined the wing at Clinton-Sherman as part of SAC's plan to disperse its Boeing B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making it more difficult for the Soviet Union to knock out the entire fleet with a surprise first strike. The same month, the 55th Aviation Depot Squadron was activated to oversee the wing's special weapons. Starting in 1960, one third of the wing's aircraft were maintained on fifteen-minute alert, fully fueled, armed and ready for combat to reduce vulnerability to a Soviet missile strike. This was increased to half the wing's aircraft in 1962. The 4123d (and later the 70th) continued to maintain an alert commitment until inactivation. In 1962, the wing's bombers began to be equipped with the GAM-77 Hound Dog and the GAM-72 Quail air-launched cruise missiles, The 4123d Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron was activated in November to maintain these missiles 70th Bombardment Wing In 1962, in order to perpetuate the lineage of many currently inactive bombardment units with illustrious World War II records, Headquarters SAC received authority from Headquarters USAF to discontinue its Major Command controlled (MAJCON) strategic wings that were equipped with combat aircraft and to activate Air Force controlled (AFCON) units, most of which were inactive at the time which could carry a lineage and history. As a result, the 4123d SW was replaced by the newly redesignated 70th Bombardment Wing, Heavy, The 857th Medical Group, 55th Munitions Maintenance Squadron and the 902d Air Refueling Squadron were reassigned to the 70th. The 4123d's maintenance and support units were replaced by units with numerical designation of the newly established wing. Under the Dual Deputate organization, all flying and maintenance squadrons were directly assigned to the wing, so no operational group element was activated. Each of the new units assumed the personnel, equipment, and mission of its predecessor. The wing conducted strategic bombardment training and air refueling missions from February 1963 to December 1969. It supported the Human Systems Center until October 1998, when the Center was redesignated as the 311th Human Systems Wing. The group's mission, personnel, and equipment were all transferred to the 311th Air Base Group. In August 2000, the unit was activated as the 70th Intelligence Wing, then later the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing, and has managed the USAF portion of the DoD's cryptology mission, exploiting intelligence, integrating it into air and space operations, and assisting commanders and others with intelligence requirements. ==Lineage==

70th Group • Constituted as 70th Observation Group on 1 September 1941 : Activated on 13 September 1941 : Redesignated 70th Reconnaissance Group on 2 April 1943 : Redesignated 70th Tactical Reconnaissance Group on 11 August 1943 : Disbanded on 30 November 1943 • Reconstituted and redesignated 70th Reconnaissance Group on 10 March 1947 : Activated in the Reserve on 26 April 1947 : Inactivated on 27 June 1949 • Consolidated with the 70th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing on 31 January 1984 as the 70th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Components ; Groups • 70th Combat Support Group (later 70th Mission Support Group), 1 February 1963 – 31 December 1969, 1 May 2005 – present • 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, 1 January 2009 – present • 70th Operations Group, 1 May 2005 – 1 January 2009 • 544th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, 5 July 2006 – 24 July 2020 • 659th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, 8 September 2010 – present • 691st Intelligence Group (later 691st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group), 31 January 2008 – present • 692d Intelligence Group, 1 October 2004 – 1 July 2008 • 694th Intelligence Group, 1 April 2008 – 1 January 2009 • 707th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, 7 October 2009 – present • 770th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, Provisional, attached 1 October 2009 – 8 September 2010 ; Squadrons • 6th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (later 6th Bombardment Squadron): 24 June 1955 – 25 June 1962 (detached 1 May-c. October 1955); 1 February 1963 – 31 December 1969 • 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: 2 March 1942 – 30 November 1943 • 26th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron (later 26th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, 681st Bombardment Squadron): 1 August 1947 – 27 June 1949; 24 January 1955 – 25 June 1962 • 35th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron see 123d Observation Squadron • 57th Reconnaissance Squadron: 1 August 1947 – 27 June 1949 • 61st Reconnaissance Squadron (later 61st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, 61st Bombardment Squadron): 26 April 1947 – 27 June 1949; 24 January 1955 – 25 June 1962 (detached 15 July-c. October 1955) • 70th Air Refueling Squadron: 1 August 1955 – 1 August 1961 (detached 27 January – 16 August 1956; 24 June-c. 24 September 1957, 3 September 1958 – 12 January 1959, and 5 October 1960 – 11 January 1961) • 70th Operations Support Squadron, 14 January 2009 – present • 112th Liaison Squadron: 30 April – 11 August 1943 • 116th Observation Squadron (later 116th Reconnaissance Squadron, 116th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron), 13 September 1941 – 30 November 1943 • 123d Observation Squadron (later 123d Reconnaissance Squadron, 35th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron), assigned 15 September 1941 – 10 August 1943, attached 11 August – 31 October 1943 • 681st Bombardment Squadron see 26th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron • 902d Air Refueling Squadron: 1 February 1963 – 31 December 1969 ; Other • Air Force Cryptological Office, 1 August 2000 – present Stations • Gray Field, Washington, 13 September 1941 • Salinas Army Air Base, California, 1 March 1943 • Redmond Army Air Field, Oregon, 15 August 1943 • Corvallis Army Air Field, Oregon, October 1943 • Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, 14–30 November 1943 • Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 26 April 1947 – 27 June 1949 • Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, 24 January 1955 – 25 June 1962 (deployed to Lockbourne AFB, Ohio, until 19 October 1955) • Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1 February 1963 – 31 December 1969 • Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, 1 October 1994 – 1 October 1998 • Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, 17 July 2000–present Aircraft • Douglas O-38 (1941) • Douglas O-46 (1941–1942) • North American O-47 (1941–1943) • O-49 Vigilant (1941–1943) • Bell P-39 Airacobra (1943) • North American B-25 Mitchell (1943) • L-5 Sentinel (1943) • Boeing RB-47 Stratojet (1955–1962) • Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter (1955–1961) • Boeing B-47 Stratojet (1961–1962) • Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (1963–1969) • Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker (1963–1969) ==List of commanders==