Thegroup's predecessor was activated as the567th Air Service Group, a support unit for a combat group at the end ofWorld War II. It did not deploy until after the end of the war and was inactivated in 1945.
The group was activated once again in 1952 as the567th Air Base Group to replace the support elements of the inactivating325th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. A year laterAir Defense Command (ADC) established it as the567th Air Defense Group, an operational headquarters forfighter-interceptor squadrons as well. It was replaced in 1955 when ADC transferred its mission, equipment, and personnel to the325th Fighter Group in a project that replaced air defense groups commanding fighter squadrons with fighter groups with distinguished records during World War II. The two groups were consolidated in April 2019.
Thegroup plans and executescyberspace operations to assist supported commanders to fight in contested cyberspace environment. It operates to remove adversary cyberspace capabilities; defends the supported commander's key cyberspace assets; and prepares local cyberspace defenders to sustain advanced cyberspace defense tactics, techniques and procedures to ensure freedom of action within friendly cyberspace, while denying adversaries the same.[2]
Thegroup was activated atVenice Army Air Field, Florida toward the end ofWorld War II as the567th Air Service Group and trained to support a single combat group in an overseas theater.[3] Its 985th Air Engineering Squadron would provide maintenance that was beyond the capability of the combat group, its 1005th Air Materiel Squadron would handle all supply matters, and its Headquarters & Base Services Squadron would provide other support.[3] It deployed to Guam in the fall of 1945, but arrived after the end of hostilities and was inactivated on 1 December.[2] The unit was disbanded in October 1948.[1]
The group was inactivated in 1955[4] and replaced by the325th Fighter Group (Air Defense)[18][19] as result of ADC's Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars.[20] The group was disbanded once again in September 1984.[1]
On 29 June 2018, the Air Force activated the567th Cyberspace Operations Group atScott Air Force Base, Illinois. Four of its squadrons are located atJoint Base San Antonio, Texas. The 835th and 837th Cyberspace Operations Squadrons are located at Scott, where the groupheadquarters was originally located. In July 2020, the headquarters joined the other squadrons in Texas.[2] Three months later, two of its squadrons were transferred to the new 867th Cyberspace Operations Group atFort Meade, Maryland.
^Aircraft is North American F-86D-20-NA Sabre, serial 51-3078. This plane was destroyed in a midair collision on 14 November 1954.Baugher, Joe (7 April 2023)."1951 USAF Serial Numbers". Joe Baugher. Retrieved13 April 2023.
Buss, Lydus H.(ed), Sturm, Thomas A., Volan, Denys, and McMullen, Richard F., History of Continental Air Defense Command and Air Defense Command July to December 1955, Directorate of Historical Services, Air Defense Command, Ent AFB, CO, (1956)
Coleman, John M (1950).The Development of Tactical Services in the Army Air Forces. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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