[5] Its headquarters is at Hurlburt Field, Florida and it has component groups located in North Carolina, Georgia and Washington.

Its primary mission is to conduct global air, space, and cyber-enabled special operations across the spectrum of conflict to prepare to fight.

[6] As of April 2020 the wing is organized as follows:[7] It was activated on 25 December 1942 to control all Army Air Forces units on Iceland and subsequently disestablished in June 1944.

The wing inactivated on 31 January 1987, its subordinate components reassigned directly to the USAF Southern Air Division.

It again flew search and rescue, aeromedical airlift and disaster relief missions in the Latin American region from 1989–1990.

Missions included counter-narcotics operations, aerial command and control, intratheater airlift, security assistance and defense of the Panama Canal.

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