USAF OCS Class 62-A
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History of OCS

 

Appendix 1

ORGANIZATIONAL LINEAGES
Organizational Name/Lineage Actions                                                                     Effective     

PILOT TRAINING

  

Air Corps Replacement Center (Pilot)    1

    Established                                                                                                           
    Stationed: Kelly Field     
    Assigned: AAF Gulf Coast Training Center
    Activated  
    Redesignated: Air Corps Replacement Training Center (Air Crew)
    Redesignated: Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School (Pilot)                             
    Transferred: San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center      
    Reassigned: 31st AAF Flying Training Wing
    Reassigned: AAF Gulf Coast Training Center
    Reassigned: 78th AAF Flying Training Wing
    Disbandment Ordered
    Disbandment Order Rescinded
    Redesignated: Army Air Forces Preflight School    2
    Discontinued                                                                                                       

 

21 Feb 41
21 Feb 41
 21 Feb 41
22 Aug 41
 20 Sep 41
 30 Apr 42
 4 Jul 42
 8 Jan 43
 27 May 43
 2 Dec 43
 30 Apr 44
 28 Apr 44
 31 May 44
 30 Jun 45
Army Air Forces Preflight School [NA]

    Established
    Assigned: AAF Training Command
    Stationed: Maxwell Field, Alabama
    Transferred: AAF Military Training Center
    Reassigned: AAF Technical Training Command                                     

 

I Jun 45
I Jun 45
 I Jun 45
I Feb 46
 I Feb 46

Aviation Cadet Center

    Constituted
    Activated
    Assigned: AAF Gulf Coast Training Center                  
    Redesignated: 332d Pre-Flight Training Group (Pilot)                                    
    Disbanded                                                                                                              

 

1 Aug 42
 1 Aug 42
 1 Aug 42
 19 Jul 43
 30 Apr 44

United States Air Force Preflight School [NA]

    Established                                                                                                              
    Assigned: Technical Training Air Force                                                           
    Reassigned: Air Training Command                                                                        
    Discontinued                                                                                                              

 

1 Oct 52
 1 Oct 52
 1 Jun 58
1 Jul 60

1st Flight Screening Squadron

    Activated                                                                                                                    
    Assigned: Officer Training School                                                                          
    Reassigned: l2th Flying Training Wing                                                                  

 

4 Jun 90
4 Jun 90
 1 Jul 91

3700th Pre-Flight Training Group (Officer)

    Organized                                                                                            
    Assigned: USAF Officer Military Schools                                                             
    Discontinued            

 

20 Aug 54
20 Aug 54
Dec 58

3721st Training Squadron (Officer)

    Organized                                                                                                    
    Assigned: 3700th Officer Candidate Training Group                                            
    Discontinued                                                                                                               

 

19 Dec 51
 19 Dec 51
17 Dec 53

3740th Pre-Flight Training Group

    Organized                                                                                           
    Assigned: 3700th AF Indoctrination Wing                                                             
    Redesignated: USAF Pre-Flight School                                                                  
    Reassigned: USAF Officer Military Schools                                                          
    Redesignated: Pre-Flight Training School, USAF                                                 
    Discontinued                                                                                                                

 

1 Oct 52 
1 Oct 52
1 Aug 53
 1 Aug 53
20 Sep 54
 1 Jul 60

PRECOMMISSIONING TRAINING

  

Army Air Forces Nurses Training Detachment #9

    Activated                                                                                                                   
    Assigned: AAF Training Command                                                                     
    Attached: Station Hospital, SAACC                                                                      
    Disbanded                                                                                                                   

  

10 Nov 43
10 Nov 43
 10 Nov 43
30 Apr 44

Army Air Forces Officer Candidate School [NA]

    Established                                                                                                         
    Assigned: AAF Training Command                                                               
    Discontinued                                                                                                               

 

1 Apr 44
1 Apr 44
 30 Jun 45

Army Air Forces Officer Candidate School [NA]

    Established                                                                                                      
    Stationed: Maxwell Field, Alabama                                                             
    Assigned: AAF Training Command                                                                   
    Transferred: AAF Military Training Center                                                             
    Reassigned: AAF Technical Training Command
    Discontinued                                                                                                                 
    Reassigned: Air Training Command                                                                        
    Redesignated: Air Force Officer Candidate School                                              
    Redesignated: USAF Officer Candidate School                                                    
    Reassigned: Technical Training Air Force                                                            
    Reassigned: Air Training Command                                                                        
    Inactivated                                                                                                                   

 

1 Jun 45
1 Jun 45
 1 Jun 45
1 Feb 46
 1 Feb 46
 1 Jul 46      
31 Aug 46
 15 Dec 47
15 May 48
 [c late 51]
1 Jun 58
 30 Sep 77

Officer Training School, United States Air Force

    Activated                                                                                                         
    Assigned: Officer Military Schools, USAF                                              
    Reassigned: Lackland Military Training Center                                                    
    Reassigned: Air Training Command                                                                      
    Redesignated: School of Military Sciences, Officer                                                
    Redesignated: Officer Training School, USAF                                                        
    Reassigned: Air Force Military Training Center                                                      
    Redesignated: HQ, Officer Training School, USAF                                               
    Redesignated: 3700th Officer Training Group                                                          
    Redesignated: 301st Officer Training Squadron                                                      
    Reassigned: 94th Military Training Group     3                                            
    Reassigned: Air University                                                                                   
 

 		 

1 Jul 59
1 Jul 59
 Unknown
1 Jun 72
 1 Aug 72
8 Apr 74
 14 Nov 86
 31 Jun 90
 1 Feb 92
25 Aug 92
 25 Aug 92
1 July 93
 

1 This lineage may be a composite of those for both an establishment and a named activity with the same designation. References in available documents and histories suggest that a named activity as well as the establishment existed, a common arrangement for training operations at the time. For example, the AAF Pre-Flight School's sister establishment on the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, was the AAF Classification Center, definitely with a named activity having the same designation.

2 War Department letter, AG 352(11 Jun 45), 14 Jun 45, "discontinued" an AAF Preflight School. Generally consistent usage at the time was to "discontinue" named activities and to either "inactivate" or "disestablish" establishments. This order certainly referred to a named activity [see note above], but officials may also have intended it for the establishment. Research produced no other inactivation order for the establishment.

3 Special Order G-70 rectified ATC's initial failure to organize a headquarters unit when it established OTS in 1959. For thirty years, personnel assignments to the establishment had violated Air Force organizational theory and procedure, which restricted such assignment to units.

 		 

 

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