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Air Expeditionary Force isn't a unit type

Air Expeditionary Force, as listed under other structures, is not a unit type. Per Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 10-4, "AEF is the USAF methodology for organizing, training, equipping, and sustaining rapidly, reponsive air and space forces to meet the defense strategy requirements." I've commented-out the section, since it doesn't really fit into the realm of this article.70.174.82.89 02:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Department of the Air Force merger

Wouldn’t it be more proper to move the contents of this article to United States Department of the Air Force, instead of keeping two separate articles which both deals with the Air Force organizational structure? RicJac (talk) 15:38, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Operational Commands

I would suggest removing this section for a couple of reasons:

The commands described were never used by the United States Air Force, they were part of the Army Air Forces. Those that had not already been disbanded or redesignated were disbanded on 8 October 1948.

Roman numbered commands included support commands as well as operational commands. Following the example in the article, there was also a X Air Force Service Command. All these commands in the regular air force were treated the same way in October, 1948 although some reserve roman numbered commands persisted until June 1949.

The description "operational commands" excludes named commands that existed at the same or higher level and were just as much part of the AAF. Examples include Air Depot Control Area Commands, Air Service Commands (not the Air Service Command -- named and numbered), Air Technical Service Commands, Air Materiel Commands, Air Service Area Commands (named and numbered), Flying Training Commands, Technical Training Commands. Lineagegeek (talk) 22:40, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Historical Organizations

Named Air Forces (Air Defense Forces, Training Air Forces)
Named Activities
Divisions (not Air Divisions)
Centers (needs separate discussion, not lumping in with Bands and Fire Teams) Still exist. Lineagegeek (talk) 22:40, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Organisational Chart for the US Air Force

I do recall that the US Air Force is considerably larger than Russia's (according to VSB defense?). Anyhow, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_Air_Force.png shows the Organisational Chart for the Russian Air Force. Any chance that there's a version of this for the US Air Force? I imagine that someone has already done this/seen this lying around somewhere and that it is just a matter of uploading it... ASavantDude (talk) 00:15, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That would be an absolutely massive chart if done for the US Air Force. There are, however, basic org charts in Air Force Instruction 38-101, figures 26.1-26.3 that would be useful. Barazoku ranka (talk) 03:37, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Organizational Type: Squadron, Flight, Element cleanup

Looking at the descriptions under Squadron, Flight, and Element categories. A lot of the text is confusing or inaccurate. Some of the information appears to be from Army organizations (such as "Squad" being headed by a Staff Sergeant). It may benefit from a cleanup and import of information from Air Force Instruction 38-101, Chapter 26. Barazoku ranka (talk) 02:39, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned up a lot of the referenced categories. However, I believe more references may be needed for some of the claims that existed in the original source that were retained in the re-write. Barazoku ranka (talk) 01:49, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion: 'collapse' identical footnotes using <ref name="something"> feature

As of the "Latest revision as of 10:56, 11 August 2024" version of this article, footnotes 4-6, 8-11, and 13 are identical. Also, footnotes 7, 12 and 14 are identical.

This may be a good opportunity to 'collapse' those identical footnotes, using the <ref name="something"> feature.

(right?) Mike Schwartz (talk) 02:31, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Structure_of_the_United_States_Air_Force&diff=prev&oldid=1252162282 e.g.)

Resolved

– case closed

--Mike Schwartz (talk) 05:16, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]