73rd Space Group

• Established as: 73d Aerospace Surveillance Wing on 1 November 1966

Organized on 1 January 1967

Inactivated on 30 April 1971

• Redesignated as 73d Space Surveillance Group on 10 February 1989

Activated on 1 March 1989

Redesignated as 73d Space Wing on 1 June 1991

Redesignated as 73d Space Group on 1 May 1992

Inactivated on 26 April 1995

• 9th Aerospace Defense Division, 1 January 1967
• 14th Aerospace Force, 1 July 1968 – 30 April 1971
• Air Force Space Command, 1 March 1989
• 1st Space Wing, 1 June 1991
• 14th Air Force, 20 September 1993 – 26 April 1995

• Ent AFB, Colorado, 1 January 1967
• Tyndall AFB, Florida, 17 July 1967 – 30 April 1971
• Falcon AFB, Colorado, 1 June 1991 – 26 April 1995

• 1st Command and Control Squadron (28 February 1992 – 24 June 1994)
• 1 Deep Surveillance Squadron (later, 1st Surveillance Squadron, 1st Space Surveillance Squadron (1 April 1989 – 26 April 1995)
• 3rd Space Surveillance Squadron (1 October 1992 – 26 April 1995)
• 4th Surveillance Squadron (later, 4th Space Surveillance Squadron) (1 October 1990 – 26 April 1995)
• 5 Surveillance Squadron (later, 5th Space Surveillance Squadron) (1 October 1990 – 26 April 1995)
• 16 Surveillance Squadron (later, 16th Space Surveillance Squadron) (1 January 1967 – 30 April 1971; 1 September 1991 – 1 October 1994)
• 17 Surveillance Squadron (later, 17th Space Surveillance Squadron) (1 January 1967 – 31 December 1969; 15 November 1993 – 26 April 1995)
• 18th Surveillance Squadron (later, 18th Space Surveillance Squadron) (1 January 1967 – 30 April 1971; 1 July 1991 – 26 April 1995)
• 19th Surveillance Squadron (later, 19th Space Surveillance Squadron) (1 January 1967 – 30 April 1971; 1 October 1991 – 26 April 1995)
• 20th Surveillance Squadron (later, 20th Space Surveillance Squadron) (1 January 1967 – 30 April 1971; 1 August 1991 – 26 April 1995)
• 73d Operations Support Squadron (15 May 1992 – 26 April 1995)
• 73d Support Squadron (later, 73d Mission Support Squadron (15 May 1992 – 26 April 1995)

• Detachment 1, 73d Space Group – San Vito dei Normanni AS, Italy (1 October 1989 – 1 October 1990)[1]
• Detachment 2, 73d Space Group – RAF Feltwell, United Kingdom (1 October 1989 – 1 October 1990)
• Detachment 3, 73d Space Group – Misawa AB, Japan (1 January 1991 – 1 October 1992)

Per chevron reversed celeste and azure a plate bearing a torteau radiating seven fillets throughout argent and over-all a fillet forming a nuclear rose of the last seeded of seven electrons gules and leaved of seven flight symbols or, all within a diminished bordure of the like.