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From: stuart@rennet.cs.wisc.edu (Stuart Friedberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: A Quick and Dirty Guide to US Unit Numbering
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Date: 12 Mar 91 23:39:32 GMT
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From: stuart@rennet.cs.wisc.edu (Stuart Friedberg)
In article <1991Mar7.014546.2986@cbnews.att.com> graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes:
>Air Force unit numbering is very odd. It's more or less random as far
>as I can tell.

Well, that's a matter of perspective.  *Every* unit I can think of in
the Electronic Security Command has a number beginning 69, and the
numbers of smaller units are quite logically related to those of
larger ones.  E.g, 6940th ES Wing, 6941st through 6944th ES Squadron,
all belonging to the 6940 ESW.

Most, if not all AF training/school squadrons have numbers beginning
72 or 67.

Stu Friedberg (stuart@cs.wisc.edu, former member 6913 ESS & 6941 ESS)