732d Air Expeditionary Group

732d Air Expeditionary Group
732d Air Expeditionary Group emblem
Active	2007 – present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Air Expeditionary Group
Garrison/HQ	Balad AB, Iraq
Motto(s)	Combat Airpower with a Hooah...Right Here, Right Now!
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel David W. Marttala

The 732d Air Expeditionary Group (732 AEG) provided oversight and advocacy for roughly 1,100 Air Force personnel spread across four squadrons who were tactically assigned to U.S. Army and Marine units throughout Iraq. Originally the 732 Expeditionary Mission Support Group, the 732 AEG was re-designated an air expeditionary group in December 2006 to reflect its theater-wide responsibilities. Operating from Balad Air Base at its inception, the six squadrons of the 732 AEG provided direct Joint and Coalition combat and combat support to and/or in lieu of US Army, Marine Corps and Iraqi Army and Police Forces at over 60 locations, including downtown Baghdad; Camp Speicher; Al Asad Air Base; Camp Anaconda (Balad Air Base); Camp Bucca; Camp Caldwell (Kirkush); Tallil Air Base; Mosul Air Base; Camp Rustamiyah; Baghdad International Airport; Green Zone; Kirkuk Air Base; Camp Hadithah; and Taji Air Base. Colonel Larry Jackson served as the first AEG commander at the height of the 2006 to 2007 military surge when the 732 AEG had over 1800 Airmen assigned, including security forces, Red Horse and civil engineers, lawyers, truck drivers, interrogators, military working dog teams, intelligence specialists, explosive ordinance disposal specialist, logisticians, and airfield managers. The 732 AEG provided operational oversight for Airmen who were tactically assigned to U.S. Army and Marine units.

Lineage

• Constituted as 32d Air Base Group (Reinforced) on 20 November 1940^[1]

Activated on 15 January 1941

Redesignated 32d Air Base Group on 6 November 1941

Redesignated 32d Service Group on 13 June 1942

• Disbanded on 11 June 1945.
• Reconstituted, redesignated 732d Expeditionary Mission Support Group, and converted to provisional status on 14 January 2004.
• Redesignated 732d Air Expeditionary Group in December 2006 with Colonel Lawrence M. Jackson II as the first 732 AEG commander.

Inactivated on 12 November 2010. Mission taken over by the newly activated 467th Air Expeditionary Group.^[2]

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.

Assignments

• GHQ Air Force (later, Air Force Combat Command), 15 January 1941
• 4th Air Force Service Command (later, 4th Air Base Command), 1 October 1941
• Western Theater of Operations, Air Service Command, 30 December 1941
• Mobile Air Service Area Command, c. January 1943
• Warner Robind Air Service Area Command, 1943
• Eighth Air Force (later United States Strategic Air Forces In Europe), 28 January 1944
• IX Air Force Service Command, 4 February 1944 – 11 June 1945
• 332d Air Expeditionary Wing, 2 March 2004 – 12 November 2010

Stations

• March Field, CA, 15 January 1941
• Dale Mabry Field, FL, 31 December 1942
• Venice AAFId, FL, 9 October 1943 – 27 December 1943
• Zeals, England, 31 January 1944
• Kingsnorth, England, 11 March 1944
• Brucheville, France, 8 July 1944
• Le Mans, France, 29 August 1944
• Athis, France, 30 September 1944
• Juvincourt, France, 6 October 1944
• Le Culot, 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
• LSA Anaconda and Joint Base Balad, Iraq 14 January 2004 – 12 November 2010

References

1. This unit is not related to the 32d Air Base Group that was constituted on 10 Aug 1948 and activated at Kadena AB 18 Aug 1948
2. 467th AEG provides world-class support to IA, JET Airmen