Lineage

Constituted 13th Missile Warning Squadron, and activated, on 1 Nov 1966. Organized on 1 Jan 1967. Redesignated 13th Space Warning Squadron on 15 May 1992.

Assignments

Air Defense Command, 1 Nov 1966; 71st Missile Warning Wing, 1 Jan 1967; Fourteenth Aerospace Force, 30 Apr 1971; Alaskan ADCOM Region, 1 Oct 1976; 47th Air Division, 1 Dec 1979; 1st Space Wing, 1 May 1983; 21st Operations Group, 15 May 1992-.

Stations

Clear Missile Early Warning Station (later, Clear AFS; Clear AS), AK, 1 Jan 1967-.

Aircraft

None.

Operations

Operated radar to detect a ballistic missile attack against the US and southern Canada and tracked space objects in earth orbit, 1967 to present.

Honors

Service Streamers. None.

Campaign Streamers. None.

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None.

Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1 Jun 1968-31 May 1970; 1 Jul 1971- 30 Jun 1973; 1 May 1983-30 Apr 1984.

Emblem

On a disc, per fess indented Azure and Or, issuant in base a demi-globe of the first gridlines Argent, and in chief a bugle horn of the second suspended by a strap Gules edged in Gold, all within a diminished bordure of the like. MOTTO: SENTINEL OF SPACE. Approved on 11 Aug 1967 (KE 26460).