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3rd Combat Weather Squadron
3rd Weather Squadron Patch
Active
24 June 1935-Present
Country
United States
Branch
Air Force Weather Agency
Type
Squadron
Role
Environmental Intelligence
Part of
United States Air Force/Air Combat Command/Fifteenth Air Force/93rd Air-Ground Operations Wing/3d Air Support Operations Group
Garrison/HQ
Robert Gray Army Airfield
Military unit
The 3rd Combat Weather Squadron (3 CWS) is a unit of the United States Air Force. It was formed at Barksdale Field (now Barksdale Air Force Base), Louisiana, on 24 June 1937, as part of the Signal Corps. The 3rd was one of three original squadrons that eventually transferred from the Signal Corps to the Air Corps. Currently located at West Fort Hood, the 3rd Combat Weather Squadron is aligned under the 5th Combat Weather Group (5 CWG). Weather support to Fort Hood began in 1947 at the newly constructed Killeen AFB. Today, the 3rd Combat Weather Squadron—in addition to providing weather support to the Fort Cavazos complex—has operating locations at Forts Bliss, Huachuca, Riley, and Sill in Texas, Arizona, Kansas, and Oklahoma, respectively.
The 3rd Combat Weather Squadron is currently the largest base- or post-level weather unit in the Air Force. The support provided by the squadron is as diverse as its history and that of the Army customers it supports. The squadron maintains a 24-hour observing and forecasting section at Robert Gray Army Airfield with extended observing hours at Yoakum–DeFrenn Army Heliport.
The squadron patch is Walt Disney's Cupid[clarification needed] which was sold to the unit for one US dollar during World War II, in efforts to raise troop morale.
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