Arizona Air National Guard
Arizona ANG units are trained and equipped by the Air Force and are operationally gained by a Major Command of the USAF if federalized.State missions include disaster relief in times of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and forest fires, search and rescue, protection of vital public services, and support to civil defense.On 24 May 1946, the United States Army Air Forces, in response to dramatic postwar military budget cuts, imposed by President Harry S. Truman, allocated inactive unit designations to the National Guard Bureau for the formation of an Air Force National Guard.[6]The Arizona ANG was founded by Barry Goldwater, and its origins date to the formation of the 197th Fighter Squadron at Luke Army Airfield, Glendale, receiving federal recognition on 12 December 1946.18 September 1947, however, is considered the Arizona Air National Guard's official birth concurrent with the establishment of the United States Air Force as a separate branch of the United States military under the National Security Act[6] Under Goldwater‘s direction, the Arizona ANG integrated in 1947, two years before President Truman's Executive Order 9981 ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
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