| Western Air Defense Force | |
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 Regions of ADC Air Defense Forces and known Air Force Bases with ADC units, 1949–1960Note: States containing ADC bases of Western & Central ADF and Eastern & Central ADF identified as Central/Western and Central/Eastern | |
| Active | 1949–1960 |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Air Force |
| Role | Air Defense |
| Part of | Air Defense Command |
TheWestern Air Defense Force (WADF) is an inactiveUnited States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was withAir Defense Command being stationed atHamilton Air Force Base,California. It was inactivated on 1 July 1960.
WADF was an intermediate-level command and control organization of Air Defense Command. Its origins date to 1 March 1949 whenContinental Air Command (ConAC) reorganized Air Defense Command when it became an operating agency. Air defense units within the Continental United States (CONUS) were given to the Eastern and Western Air Defense Liaison Groups, with Western and Eastern Air Defense Forces activated on 1 September 1949.
The command was originally assigned the region within the Continental United States (CONUS) to the west of the 102d degree of longitude, from theCanada–US border in the north to theRio Grande border between the United States and Mexico in the south and west to thePacific Ocean coastline. This was adjusted in 1951 with the activation ofCentral Air Defense Force (CADF) with the region being adjusted slightly to the west to the border of Montana and North Dakota at the Canada–US border, south along the eastern borders of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico to the Mexico–US border. Organizations stationed east of that boundary were transferred to CADF.
The delineation was again adjusted in March 1956 to the region generally to the west of the 114th degree of longitude, roughly along the eastern borders of Idaho, Nevada and California from the Canada–US border in the north to the Mexico–US border in the south. Organizations stationed east of that boundary were transferred to CADF, whose region was shifted westward.
Western Air Defense Force was inactivated on 1 July 1960, with its assigned units reassigned either to 25th or 28th Air Divisions, or to the new Air Defense Sectors created with the advent of theSemi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system.
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This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
