The Oxford Companion to American Military History

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Air Force Reserve

Air Force Reserve.
The U.S. Air Force Reserve was established on 14 April 1948. This and the activation of the Continental Air Command on 1 December 1948 to oversee the reserve unit program represented the air force's desire to achieve greater coherence in its federal reserve component program, which in various guises dated back to 1916.

Air Force Reservists first participated in combat in the Korean War. All 25 flying wings of the reserve, a total of 30,000 personnel, were mobilized, plus nearly 119,000 individual reservists. The Air Force Reserve emerged from its wartime service with significant program problems, and the air force spent the remainder of the 1950s rebuilding it. Key milestones included the establishment of the Air Reserve Personnel Center and the implementation of an Air Reserve Technician program, which established a full‐time cadre of civil servants who were also military personnel in Air Force Reserve...

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