It provided gunnery training to fighter aircraft of Seventh Air Force until being inactivated in the post war reduction of the United States military.

It provided gunnery training to fighter aircraft of Seventh Air Force until being inactivated in the post war reduction of the United States military.

[5] At Vincent it flew aerial targets for the 4750th's mission of providing air-to-air gunnery training for pilots of interceptor aircraft assigned to ADC.

[6] The peacetime mission of the flight was to provide electronic countermeasure (ECM) training and evaluation services to the aircraft control and warning squadrons assigned to Air Defense Command (ADC).

During the period that the 4677th operated these aircraft, they provided ADC radar squadrons with thousands of hours of ECM training.

The planes needed excessive amounts of maintenance to remain airworthy and were not supportable due to a lack of spare parts.

The unit also worked in conjunction with the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) DC-20 Direction Center at Malmstrom.

The SAGE building was built for $6 million in the late 1950s for the automation of air defense and direction of interceptors against unknown aircraft.