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Twenty-Second Air Force is a Numbered Air Force in Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). It is an intermediate echelon responsible primarily for all Air Mobility Command (AMC) gained AFRC theater airlift units in the United States and AMC gained AFRC strategic airlift units in the eastern United States.
[edit] History
Twenty-Second Air Force can trace its lineage to World War II. Prior to and during the first part of America's participation in World War II, the organization ferried aircraft. After World War II the organization operated as a subordinate echelon of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). When MATS was redesignated Military Airlift Command (MAC), the organization was designated Twenty-Second Air Force. After the U.S. Air Force reorganization of 1992, Twenty-Second Air Force continued as a subordinate echelon of Air Mobility Command at Travis AFB, California. In 1993, Twenty-Second Air Force was transferred to the Air Force Reserves (AFRES) to replace Fourteenth Air Force, which transferred to Air Force Space Command.
