732nd Air Expeditionary Group

World War II The group was first activated in 1940 at March Field, California as the 32nd Air Base Group with an air base squadron and two materiel squadrons assigned. In June 1942, along with other air base groups, its air base squadron was reassigned and it was converted into the 32nd Service Group, a support unit designed to provide support for two combat groups. After training in the United States, It moved to England, where it served with IX Air Force Service Command until it was disbanded in June 1945, when the Army Air Forces replaced its service groups with air service groups consisting entirely of Air Corps personnel and designed to support a single combat group. War in Iraq The 732nd Air Expeditionary Group was a subordinate unit to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, whose heritage is tied to the famous 332nd Fighter Group led by the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. Its mission and traditions were carried out by airmen headquartered at Joint Base Balad, Iraq with the motto "Tuskegee Airmen...The Legend Continues." The 732nd Air Expeditionary Group was composed of roughly 1,800 Air Force personnel spread across six squadrons with detachments tactically assigned to U.S. Army, Marine Corps and Coalition units at 44 locations throughout Iraq. Originally the 732 Expeditionary Mission Support Group, the unit was re-designated an air expeditionary group to reflect its theater-wide combat and combat support responsibilities at the height of the 2006–2007 US military surge. The six squadrons of the 732 AEG conducted combat and combat support for or in lieu of US Army, Marine Corps and Iraqi Army and Police Forces, at locations including downtown Baghdad; Camp Speicher; Al Asad Air Base; Camp Anaconda (Balad Air Base); Camp Habbaniyah; Camp Bucca; Camp Caldwell (Kirkush); Tallil Air Base; Mosul Air Base; Camp Rustamiyah; Baghdad International Airport; Green Zone; Kirkuk Air Base; Camp Hadithah; Taji Air Base and numerous forward operating bases. Colonel Larry Jackson assumed command of the 732 EMSG in July 2006 and, after December 2006, served as the first 732 AEG commander until July 2007 during which the brigade-level group's Airmen included security forces, Red Horse and civil engineers, military working dog teams, intelligence specialists, explosive ordnance disposal specialists, logisticians and transportation specialists, airfield managers, judge advocate and legal services specialists and interrogators. The 732nd's motto was "Combat Airpower with a Hooah...Right Here, Right Now!" Reflecting its active combat and combat support mission, the 732nd suffered 42 battle casualties from July 2006 to July 2007 including six killed-in-action: Capt. Kermit O. Evans, Master Sgt. Brad A. Clemmons, Staff Sgt. John T. Self, Army Sgt. Keith E. Fiscus, Airman 1st Class LeeBernard E. Chavis, and Airman 1st Class Jason D. Nathan. Redesignated 732nd Air Expeditionary Group in December 2006 with Colonel Lawrence M. Jackson II as its first commander. The group was inactivated in November 2010 and the 467th Air Expeditionary Group was activated in its place. ==Lineage==

• Constituted as the 32nd Air Base Group (Reinforced) on 20 November 1940 : Activated on 15 January 1941 : Redesignated 32nd Air Base Group on 6 November 1941 : Redesignated 32nd Service Group on 13 June 1942 : Disbanded on 11 June 1945 : Reconstituted, redesignated 732nd Expeditionary Mission Support Group and converted to provisional status on 14 January 2004. Assigned to Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate as needed. : Activated on 2 March 2004 : Redesignated 732nd Air Expeditionary Group in December 2006 : Inactivated on 12 November 2010 England, 31 January 1944 • RAF Kingsnorth (Station 418), France, 8 July 1944 • Le Mans Airfield (A-35), France, 29 August 1944 • Athis Airfield (A-76), France, 30 September 1944 • Juvincourt Airfield (A-68), France, 6 October 1944 • Le Culot Airfield (A-89), France, 27 October 1944 • Detachment A ::: Aachen, Germany, 29 March 1945 ::: Niedermendig, Germany, 9 April 1945 ::: Kassel, Germany, 22 April – 11 June 1945 • Detachment B ::: Venio, Netherlands, 16 March 1945 ::: Lippstadt, Germany, 23 April 1945 ::: Munich, Germany, 26 May – 11 June 1945 • Detachment C ::: Charleroi, Belgium, 20 March 1945 ::: Maastricht, Netherlands, c. March 1945 ::: Wiesbaden, Germany, 20 April – 11 June 45 • Joint Base Balad, Iraq 14 January 2004 – 12 November 2010 Honors • Service Streamers: World War II American Theater • Campaign Streamers. • World War II: • Normandy 1944 • Northern France 1944 • Rhineland 1944–1945 • Central Europe 1945 • Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None • Decorations. Meritorious Unit Citation: England, France, Belgium, 18 January – 30 November 1944. ==References==