Military Units and Formations of the United States - Joint Task Forces of the United States Armed Forces, Carrier Air Wing (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Joint task forces of the United States armed forces, Carrier air wing, Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region, NetOps, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Joint Task Force Lebanon, Joint Task Force Bravo, Joint Task Force National Capital Region/Medical, Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations, Task Force 121, Joint Task Force North, Joint Interagency Task Force West, United States Rapid Deployment Forces, Joint Interagency Task Force South, Joint Task Force Liberia, US Army WCAP, Joint Task Force-Homeland Defense, Task Force 6-26, Joint Task Force-Alaska, Joint Task Force-Civil Support, Special reaction team, Joint Task Force Aztec Silence, Joint Task Force-Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, U.S. Forces Azores, Military Liaison Element, Joint Unmanned Aerial Systems Center of Excellence, Task Force Shield, Joint Warfare Analysis Center, Joint Detention Group, Joint Task Force Caring Response, Joint civil-military operations task force, Joint Task Force Katrina, Task Force Falcon. Excerpt: A Carrier Air Wing (abbreviated CVW) is an operational naval aviation organization composed of several aircraft squadrons and detachments of various types of fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. Organized, equipped and trained to conduct modern US Navy carrier air operations while embarked aboard aircraft carriers, the various squadrons in an air wing have different, complementary (and sometimes overlapping) missions, and provide most of the striking power and electronic warfare capabilities of a carrier battle group (CVBG). While the CVBG term is still used by ther nations, the CVBG in US parlance in now known as a carrier strike group (CSG). Until 1963, Carrier air wings were known as Carrier Air Groups (CAGs). Carrier air wings are what the United States Air Force would call "com...