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15th Air Force Patch – Hook and Loop

Airmen! Enjoy this 15th Air Force Patch.  You’ll love the quality of this beautifully embroidered patch and will be perfect to display or wear.

• 3.5 in
• Embroidered
• US Veteran-Owned Business

The Fifteenth Air Force (15 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base. 15 AF was reactivated on 20 August 2020 to consolidate the units of the Ninth Air Force and Twelfth Air Force to form a new numbered air force responsible for generating and presenting Air Combat Command’s conventional forces. [2]

Established on 1 November 1943, Fifteenth AF was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force deployed to the European Theater of World War II, engaging in strategic bombardment operations from bases in southern Italy and engaging in air-to-air fighter combat against enemy aircraft.

During the Cold War, 15 AF was one of three Numbered Air Forces of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC), commanding USAF strategic bombers and missiles on a global scale. Elements of 15th Air Force engaged in combat operations during the Korean War; Vietnam War, as well as Operation Desert Storm.

15 AF was redesignated Fifteenth Expeditionary Mobility Task Force (15 EMTF) on 1 October 2003. 15 EMTF provided support for strategic airlift for all United States Department of Defense agencies as well as air refueling for the Air Force in both peace and wartime for the Pacific region. 15 EMTF inactivated on 20 March 2012.

On August 20 2020, 15 AF was reactivated as a numbered air force under Air Combat Command as part of a reorganization to consolidate ACC’s conventional forces.