315th Weapons Squadron

History

Established as the first USAF ICBM training Squadron at Vandenberg AFB California in May 1958. As the 4315th Student Squadron, and later 4315th Combat Crew Training Squadron, the unit was responsible for implementing the SAC Missile Combat Crew Training Program. All USAF ICBM crew personnel (Atlas, Titan I, Titan II, Minuteman I,II, II) up to the inactivation of the 4315th in July 1993 were trained at one time or another by this unit.

Re-established as the 315th Weapons Squadron as part of the USAF Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nevada in 2012. Provides the ICBM Weapons Instructor Course.

Lineage

Established by Strategic Air Command as the 4315th Student Squadron, 1 May 1958

Re-designated: 4315th Combat Crew Training Squadron, 14 May 1963 Inactivated 1 July 1993

Constituted as 315th Weapons Squadron and activated on 2 March 2012

Consolidated with 4315th Combat Crew Training Squadron, 2 March 2012

Assignments

392d Air Base Group, 1 May 1958

704th Strategic Missile Wing, 1 November 1958

1st Missile Division, 1 July 1959

392d Strategic Missile Wing, 1 October 1961

1st Strategic Aerospace Division, 20 December 1961

15th Air Force, 1 April 1970

1st Strategic Aerospace Division, 4 January 1975-1 July 1993

USAF Weapons School, 2 March 2012-Present

Stations

Cooke (later Vandenberg) AFB, California, 1 May 1958-1 July 1993

Nellis AFB, Nevada, 2 March 2012-Present