Current Units
The United States Air Force's 35th Fighter Wing (35 FW) is the host unit at Misawa Air Base. The wing conducts daily F-16 flight training to maintain its combat readiness edge. Its pilots fly air-to-air weapons delivery exercises over water and sharpen their air-to-ground skills using the Draughn Gunnery Range located 12 miles north of Misawa.
Five groups are assigned to the 35th Fighter Wing: the 35th Maintenance Group, the 35th Mission Support Group, 35th Medical Group, 35th Operations Group and 35th Intelligence Group. Operational fighter squadrons of the 35th Operations Group are:
- 13th Fighter Squadron "Panthers", Red tail stripe
- 14th Fighter Squadron "Samurais", Yellow tail stripe
Both squadrons fly the Block 50 F-16C/D "Wild Weasels", and use the tail code of "WW" (before adopting the "WW" tail code, the code "MJ" (for Misawa, Japan) was carried.
The 35th Fighter Wing also serves as the host unit to a variety of other tenant units representing three U.S. military services and those of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). These units include:
U.S. Navy
- Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Force Seventh Fleet (COMPATRECONFORSEVENTHFLT)
- Naval Air Facility Misawa
- Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD) Misawa
- Navy Information Operations Command Misawa, formerly known as Naval Security Group Activity Misawa
- Rotational squadrons and detachments of P-3 Orion and EP-3 Aries aircraft on six-month deployments to NAF Misawa
U.S. Air Force
- 373d Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group
- 301st Intelligence Squadron
- 373rd Mission Support Squadron
U.S. Army
- 403rd Military Intelligence Detachment, formerly the 750th Military Intelligence Company
Japanese Air Self Defense Force
- JASDF Northern Air Defense Force Headquarters
- JASDF 3rd Air Wing
U.S. Defense Contractor
- CUBIC Defense Applications ACMI
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