AFSPC Milestone: First Air National Guard space unit activated

Air Force Space Command is celebrating its 30th Anniversary! Here is a significant milestone from the command’s history …

On 1 October 1995, the 137th Space Warning Squadron was activated in Greeley, Colo. This was the first assumption of a strategic warning mission by an Air National Guard unit, a significant milestone in integrating the Total Force into the space mission.

The 137th employs the Air Force’s only strategic survivable, mobile ground system (MGS), designed to work with the Defense Support Program’s early warning satellites.
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