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==Units== {| class="wikitable sortable" |+United States !scope="col" width="100"| Unit !scope="col" width="100"| Command !scope="col" width="70"| Start !scope="col" width="70"| End !scope="col" width="400"| Comments |- | ADC Headquarters || Air Defense Command / Aerospace Defense Command || 1951-01 || || The United States Air Force Air Defense Command (ADC) was established as a major command with the sole mission of air defense of the continental United States. Headquarter opened at Colorado Springs, Colorado, on 8 January, 51 under the command of Lieutenant General [[Ennis Whitehead]].<ref name="JCS History">{{cite web | url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/joint_staff/jointStaff_jointOperations/271.pdf | title=Chronology of Joint Chiefs of Staff Involvement in North American Air Defense (1946-1975) | author=Historical Division, Joint Secretariat | publisher=Joint Chiefs of Staff | date=30 March 1976 | access-date=14 February 2015 | archive-date=13 July 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713002724/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/joint_staff/jointStaff_jointOperations/271.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>{{rp|30}} |- | ARAACOM Headquarters || Army Antiaircraft Command || 1951-01 || 1957-03 || On 15 January 1951, the Army Antiaircraft Command (ARAACOM) moved its headquarters to Colorado Springs to operate alongside the USAF ADC. Subsequently, on 10 April 1951, all Army Antiaircraft (AA) units in the continental United States were allocated to the Army Antiaircraft Command. At that time there were 23 AA battalions.{{r|JCS History}}{{rp|30}} ARAACOM was redesignated the U. S. Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM) on 21 March 1957.{{r|NORAD History}}{{rp|41}} |- | CONAD Headquarters || Continental Air Defense Command ||1954-09 || || The Joint Chiefs of Staff established the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) with headquarters at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, under the command of General Benjamin W. Chidlaw.{{r|JCS History}}{{rp|57}} |- | NORAD Headquarters || North American Air Defense Command || 1957-09 || 1963-03|| North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was established on Ent Air Force Base on 12 September 1957. It exercised operational control over Canadian and US air defense forces in Canada through the AOC, Canadian Air Defence Command, and over all other usΒ· air defense forces in continental United States, Alaska, and Greenland.{{r|JCS History}}{{rp|78}} NORAD Headquarters moved to the Chidlaw Building in March 1963.{{r|NORAD History}}{{rp|36}} |- | 4th Weather Wing || [[Air Force Weather Agency|Air Weather Service]] for Air Defense Command || || ||The 4th was stationed at Ent in 1954<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105967/major-general-russell-k-pierce-jr/ | title=Major General Russell K. Pierce, Jr. | work=United States Air Force Biographies | publisher=United States Air Force | access-date=13 February 2015 }}</ref> 1965,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0653629 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823130115/http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0653629 | url-status=dead | archive-date=23 August 2011 | title=Terminal Forecast Reference File for Ent Air Force Base (Peterson Field), Colorado Springs, Colorado | author=4th Weather Wing, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado | date=December 1965 | access-date=12 February 2015 |via=DTIC Online}}</ref> 1967,{{r|Gazette1967}} and 1970.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/directoryo00unit#page/90/mode/2up/search/Colorado | title=A directory of computer software applications : atmospheric sciences, 1970-October, 1978 |author=United States. National Technical Information Service | year=1978 |location=Springfield, Va. |publisher= U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service |page=114 | access-date=12 February 2015 }}</ref> |- |[[9th Space Division]] || Air Defense Command / Aerospace Defense Command|| 1961-07 || 1968-07|| On 15 July 1961 the 9th Aerospace Division was stationed at Ent. Assigned to the Aerospace Defense Command, the 9th Aerospace Division assumed responsibility for the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, the Missile Defense Alarm System, the Space Detection and Tracking System, the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Combat operations Center, the Bomb Alarm System, and the Nuclear Detonation System from 1961 to 1968.{{r|FS 9 Space}} Within the division was the 1 Space Operations Squadron (AFSPC),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13437 |title=Fact Sheet: 1 Space Operations Squadron (AFSPC) |publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency |date=4 October 2007 |via=archive.org |access-date=13 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913140051/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13437 |archive-date=13 September 2011}}</ref> 2 Space Operations Squadron (AFSPC),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=13438 | title=Fact Sheet: 2 Space Operations Squadron (AFSPC) | publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency | date=4 October 2007 | via=archive.org | access-date=13 February 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214000338/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=13438 | archive-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> and the 71 Flying Training Wing.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9811 | title=Fact Sheet: 71 Flying Training Wing (AETC) | publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency | date=4 October 2007 | via=archive.org | access-date=13 February 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064349/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9811 | archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> The Division received the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award from 1 January 1966 to 31 December 1967. It was inactivated and discontinued on 1 July 1968.<ref name="FS 9 Space">{{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10063 |title=Factsheet: Space Division |publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency |date=4 October 2007 |via=archive.org |access-date=13 February 2015 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030120138/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10063 |archive-date=30 October 2012}}</ref> |- | [[Fourteenth Air Force|14th Air Force]] || Air Defense Command / Aerospace Defense Command || 1968-07 || 1976-10 || Responsibilities included air defense, including detection of missile launches, identifying and tracking satellites, providing space vehicle launch services, and performing anti-satellite actions. It also maintained space monitoring, defense and warning systems. Also, 14th Aerospace Force<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/?id=4685 | title=Fact Sheet: 14th Air Force History | publisher=Vandenburg Air Force Base, United States Air Force | access-date=12 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213061456/http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4685 | archive-date=13 February 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-126072747.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329174945/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-126072747.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=29 March 2015 |title=Major General James E. Paschall | work=U.S. Air Force Military Biographies | publisher=U.S. Air Force | date=1 January 2004 |access-date=11 February 2015 }}</ref> It was located in the Burrows Building. The 73rd Space Group was a component of the 14th.<ref name="FS 14 AF">{{cite web | url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11030 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231144855/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11030 | url-status=dead | archive-date=31 December 2010 | title=Factsheet: Fourtheenth Air Force (Air Force Strategic) (AFSPC) | publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency |date=4 October 2007 | via=archive.org | access-date=13 February 2015 }}</ref> |- | [[15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force|15th Air Force]] ||Strategic Air Command ||1946-03 ||1949-11 || The 15th Air Force was activated on 31 March 1946 and assigned to the Strategic Air Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was assigned to the March Air Force Base on 7 November 1949.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11031 | title=Factsheet: 15 Expeditionary Mobility Task Force | publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency | date=21 November 2008 | access-date=13 February 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214010731/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=11031 | archive-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> Colorado Springs Tent Camp was left vacant when the 15th was reassigned to another base in November 1949.{{r|Deal underway}} |- | 46 Aerospace Defense Wing || Aerospace Defense Command || 1975-03 || 1976-12 (est){{efn|Estimate that its responsibilities regarding the buildings ended when all staff was removed from the buildings in December 1976, or soon after.}} || The unit was established on 10 February 1975 and assigned to the Aerospace Defense Command on 15 March 1975 on Peterson Field, later Peterson Air Force Base. Replacing the 4600 Air Base Wing in March 1975, it took over the mission of administering facilities of North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), Air Defense Command (ADC), and Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM) located on Ent AFB, Peterson Field (later, AFB), and Cheyenne Mountain Complex, and other nearby off-base facilities. It received Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards from 1 July 1975 to 30 June 1977 and from 1 July 1977 to 30 June 1979.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9694 | title=Fact Sheet: 46 Test Wing | publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency | date=4 September 2008 | access-date=13 February 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104183212/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9694 | archive-date=4 January 2013}}</ref> |- | 47th Communication Group || || ||1971-10 || The group was stationed at the base by 1963<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-126069860.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329175042/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-126069860.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=29 March 2015 | title=Brigadier General Dennis C. Beasley | series=U.S. Air Force Military Biographies | publisher=U.S. Air Force | date=1 January 2004 | access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref> and was assigned to Peterson Air Force Base on 22 October 1971.<ref name=Mueller>{{Cite report |last=Mueller |first=Robert |year=1989 |url=https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf |volume=I |title=Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 |publisher=Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force |isbn=0-912799-53-6 |page=474 |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> |- | 615 Infirmary / 615 Dispensary || || 1951 || || The Infirmary was at the base in 1951<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/jofnca3819541955nort/jofnca3819541955nort_djvu.txt|title=Journal of the North Carolina Dental Society |publisher=North Carolina Dental Society | location=Raleigh, North Carolina | year=1951 | page=274 | via=archive.org |access-date=18 September 2013 }}</ref> and the Dispensary was on the base in 1958.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.va.gov/vetapp03/Files/0329620.txt | title=Docket 96-04 491 β On appeal from the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Los Angeles, California| publisher=Department of Veterans Affairs |date=5 November 2003 | access-date=12 February 2015 }}</ref> |- | 1151st Special Activities Squad || || || || The squad was at the base in 1967.<ref name=Gazette1967>{{cite web | url=https://newspaperarchive.com/colorado-springs-gazette/1967-04-23/page-33/ | title=Ent Softball League | newspaper=The Gazette | location=Colorado Springs, Colorado | date=23 April 1967 | page=33 | access-date=12 February 2015 }}</ref> |- | 4600th Air Base Group units || || 1951-01 || 1975-04 || The 4600th Air Base Group activated with Peterson Field on 1 January 1951 and provided support for the newly established command. In 1958 the 4600th achieved wing status and was designated as the 4600th Air Base Wing.{{r|PAFB History}} The 4604th and 4608th Support Groups was at the base in 1967.{{r|Gazette1967}} On 1 April 1975, the Air Force redesignated the wing as the 46th Aerospace Defense Wing.<ref name="PAFB History">{{cite web | url=https://www.petersonschriever.spaceforce.mil/?id=4507 | title=Fact Sheet: Peterson Air Force Base History | publisher=Peterson Air Force Base, United States Air Force | access-date=13 February 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226104634/http://www.peterson.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4507 | archive-date=26 February 2013}}</ref> |- | [[Electronic Systems Center|Electronic Systems Division]] Detachment 10 || Air Force Systems Command ||1963-04 ||1964-07 || The Electronics Systems Division was established and organized on 1 April 1961.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=16629 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150215143536/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=16629 | url-status=dead | archive-date=15 February 2015 | title=Fact Sheet: Electronic Systems Center (AFMC) | publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency |date=4 September 2008 | access-date=13 February 2015 }}</ref> Electronic Systems Division Field Office 2 was formed on 9 September 1961. The 425L SPO (NORAD Combat Operations Center) subelement at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado (ESD Field Office 2), became ESD Detachment 10 on 1 April 1963. Detachment 10 was assigned to Cheyenne Mountain Complex Management and assumed the remaining responsibilities and most of the personnel of the 425L (NORAD Combat Operations Center) SPO and assumed responsibilities in connection with BMEWS, Space Track, SAGE, and BUIC.<ref name=DelPapa>{{Cite report |author1=E. Michael Del Papa |author2=Mary P. Warner |date=October 1987 |title=A Historical Chronology of the Electronic Systems Division 1947β1986 |url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a201708.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105532/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a201708.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=24 December 2013 |number=ESD-TR-88-276 (AD-A201 708) |pages=8, 10, 13 |access-date=19 July 2012}}</ref> |- |} {| class="wikitable sortable" |+Canada !scope="col" width="100"| Unit !scope="col" width="100"| Command !scope="col" width="70"| Start !scope="col" width="70"| End !scope="col" width="400"| Comments |- | Canadian Force Support Unit || || || || The Canadian Force Support Unit was stationed at the base in 1971.<ref>{{Citation |author=US [[Defense Communications Agency]] & Canadian Forces Headquarters |date=16 February 1971 |title= Lease Agreement between the Navy of the Government of Italy and the Navy of the United States Concerning USS Bannock (ATF-81) |url= http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/juris/j0611_08.sgml |access-date= 28 September 2012}}</ref> |- |}
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