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00:03:00 1 Overview
00:08:13 2 Chain of command
00:09:56 3 History
00:10:05 3.1 Origins
00:14:06 3.2 Interwar period
00:16:56 3.3 Post-World War II Air National Guard
00:22:50 3.4 Korean War
00:25:55 3.5 Runway alert program
00:28:27 3.6 Aircraft modernization
00:32:39 3.7 Cold War
00:40:39 3.8 Total Force Concept
00:47:13 3.9 Post Cold War era
00:47:40 3.9.1 Panama
00:49:24 3.9.2 Persian Gulf crisis
00:52:57 3.9.3 Front-line aircraft
00:56:44 3.9.4 Balkans operations
01:01:06 3.9.5 Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) Concept
01:02:38 3.10 Global war on terrorism
01:02:47 3.10.1 11 September 2001
01:06:58 3.10.2 Operation Noble Eagle
01:10:20 3.10.3 Operation Enduring Freedom
01:14:43 3.10.3.1 Takur Ghar
01:20:22 3.10.4 Operation Iraqi Freedom
01:21:04 3.10.4.1 Siege of the Haditha Dam
01:25:30 3.10.4.2 Intelligence operations
01:27:36 3.10.4.3 Support operations
01:29:44 3.11 State and local government support
01:29:54 3.11.1 Natural disasters
01:32:06 3.11.2 Hurricane Katrina
01:36:04 3.12 Operation Deep Freeze
01:37:56 4 Air National Guard units (headquarters, wing and group level)
01:38:08 4.1 National
01:38:42 4.2 States
01:38:50 4.3 Federal District and Territories
01:38:59 5 List of Air National Guard Leaders
01:39:25 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a federal military reserve force as well as the militia air force of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It, along with each state's, district's, commonwealth's or territory's Army National Guard component, makes up the National Guard of each state and the districts, commonwealths and territories as applicable.
When Air National Guard units are used under the jurisdiction of the state governor they are fulfilling their militia role. However, if federalized by order of the President of the United States, ANG units become an active part of the United States Air Force. They are jointly administered by the states and the National Guard Bureau, a joint bureau of the Army and Air Force that oversees the United States National Guard.
Air National Guard units are organized and federally recognized federal military reserve forces in each of the fifty U.S. states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States. Each state, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a minimum of one ANG flying unit with either assigned aircraft or aircraft shared with a unit of the active duty Air Force or the Air Force Reserve under an "Associate" arrangement. The ANG of the territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands have no aircraft assigned and perform ground support functions. Air National Guard activities may be located on active duty air force bases, air reserve bases, naval air stations/joint reserve bases, or air national guard bases and stations which are either independent military facilities or collocated as tenants on civilian-controlled joint civil-military airports.
ANG units typically operate under Title 32 USC. However, when operating under Title 10 USC all ANG units are operationally gained by an active duty USAF major command (MAJCOM). ANG units of the Combat Air Forces (CAF) based in the Continental United States (CONUS), plus a single air control squadron of the Puerto Rico ANG, are gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC). CONUS-based ANG units in the Mobility Air Forces (MAF), plus the Puerto Rico ANG's airlift wing and the Virgin Islands ANG's civil engineering squadron are gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC).
The vast majority of ANG units fall under either ACC or AMC. However, there remain a few exceptions, such as the Alaska ANG, ...