9th Intelligence Squadron

The 9th operates and maintains the $15M Deployable Shelterized System-Film, the Department of Defense's only mobile film processing capability, as part of the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System architecture. The unit also processes, exploits, and disseminates broad area high-resolution imagery collected by the Lockheed U-2 to meet combatant commander requirements. ==History==

World War II The squadron was first organized in France during the fall of 1944 as the 9th Photographic Laboratory Section. The section provided processing of reconnaissance photography for XXIX Tactical Air Command (Provisional). It continued this mission through V-E Day. It briefly acted as part of the army of occupation, returning to the United States in November 1945, where it was inactivated at the port of embarkation. In 1949, SAC reorganized its reconnaissance assets, assigning the squadron to the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing and moving it to Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base, California as the 9th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron. The squadron processed reconnaissance products produced by the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing's Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and, later, Lockheed U-2 Dragon Ladys until inactivating in July 1991. Intelligence The 9th Intelligence Support Squadron was activated at Beale in September 1991, the same day its predecessor was inactivated, assuming much of its mission, equipment, and personnel. The squadron dropped "support" from its name in 2003, and in July 2009, the two squadrons were consolidated. ==Lineage==

; 9th Photographic Technical Unit • Constituted as the 9th Photographic Laboratory Section on 25 August 1944 : Activated on 5 September 1944 : Redesignated 9th Photographic Technical Unit on 13 October 1944 • Inactivated on 4 October 1945 : Consolidated with the 9th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron as the 9th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron on 16 October 1984 • 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, 25 June 1966 – 1 September 1991 • 9th Operations Group, 1 September 1991 • 548th Intelligence Group, 1 December 2003 – present France [sic], 1 December 1944 • Belgium, 16 February 1945 • Gutersloh-Marienfelde Airfield (Y-99), • Topeka Air Force Base, Kansas, 19 July 1948 • Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base, California, 1 June 1949 • Rapid City Air Force Base, South Dakota, 10 April–1 May 1950 • Beale Air Force Base, California, 25 June 1966 – 1 September 1991 • Beale Air Force Base, California, 1 Sep 1991 – present ==References==