TheUnited States Air Force's263rd Combat Communications Squadron (263rd CCS) is anAir National Guard combat communications unit located at theStanly County Airport Air National Guard Station inAlbemarle, North Carolina.

The squadron was allocated in 1946 but was not formed until January 1949, as part of the118th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron inCharlotte, North Carolina. Detachment B (the Badin unit) and Detachment A (of theWadesboro, North Carolina unit) were reorganized in 1952 into the "263rd Communications Squadron". The squadron became a unit of the 251st Communications Group headquartered inSpringfield, Ohio in 1954 and re-designated the 263rd Mobile Communications Squadron in 1962. During the 1970s the squadron was again re-designated to the current "263rd Combat Communications Squadron".^[1]

The mission of the 263rd Combat Communications Squadron is to provide theater communications for the Commander of the United States Central Command.^[2]

In December 2018 members of the 263rd CCS, a detachment of the North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing, were deployed toWilliams Field atMcMurdo Station, Antarctica participating as part ofOperation Deep Freeze.^[3]

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