User:Pmsyyz/USAF Academy MAJCON units
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During the Cold War, United States Air Force major commands wanted a flexible organization at the lower echelons to permit rapid adjustments in manning that short-term requirements often dictated. Because the manning of permanent organizations was judged to be too rigid, in 1948 the Air Force created a new type of temporary organization. These major command-controlled organizations were identified as "MAJCON." Using four-digit numbers allotted to each command (for example, 3900-4399 for Strategic Air Command) by Headquarters USAF, the commands could create and end MAJCON organizations as needed. When a MAJCON organization was discontinued or inactivated, its life ended, never to be revived. The number of this organization could then be reused to designate another, entirely new MAJCON organization. Although the original intent was to provide major command flexibility in establishing and terminating short-lived, temporary organizations, some MAJCON organizations existed more than forty years.[1] See List of MAJCOM wings of the United States Air Force.
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While the United States Air Force Academy was not a major command, but a separate operating agency from 14 August 1954, and a direct reporting unit since 1 September 1978,[2] it still created units under the MAJCON scheme, all with the number 7625.
The following units were created by and assigned to the United States Air Force Academy organization. They are all inactive since the activation of the 10th Air Base Wing as the support organization for the USAF Academy on 1 November 1994.