The 10th Aerospace Defense Group is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Fourteenth Aerospace Force at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 31 December 1971.

History

The Group replaced the 10th Aerospace Defense Squadron as Aerospace Defense Command (ADC) command and control organization for Program 437 anti-satellite weapons operations program.^[1] The organization's complete history is classified Secret by USAFHRA (2009)^[2] When the group was inactivated, the 10th Aerospace Defense Squadron assumed its mission once again.

Lineage

• Constituted and activated as 10th Aerospace Defense Group in 1966

Organized on 1 January 1967

Inactivated on 31 December 1971

Assignments

• Air Defense Command 1966
• 9th Aerospace Defense Division, 1 January 1967
• Fourteenth Aerospace Force, 1 July 1968 - 31 December 1971

Components

• 10th Aerospace Defense Squadron, 31 December 1970 31 December 1971

References