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Texas Air National Guard

Air Force Militia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7707500 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Texas Air National Guard (TX ANG) is the aerial militia of the U.S. state of Texas. It is a reserve of the United States Air Force (USAF) and part of the Texas National Guard, alongside the Texas Army National Guard. No element of the Texas Air National Guard is under United States Air Force command. They are under the jurisdiction of the governor of Texas through the office of the Texas adjutant general unless they are federalized by order of the president of the United States. The Texas Air National Guard is headquartered at Camp Mabry, Austin, and its chief of staff is Brigadier General Matthew Barker.

Under the "Total Force" concept, Texas Air National Guard units are considered to be an Air Reserve Component (ARC) of the USAF. Texas ANG units are trained and equipped by the Air Force and are operationally gained by a major command of the USAF if federalized. In addition, the Texas Air National Guard forces are assigned to Air Expeditionary Forces and are subject to deployment tasking orders along with their active duty and Air Force Reserve counterparts in their assigned cycle deployment window.

Along with their federal reserve obligations, as state militia units the elements of the Texas ANG are subject to being activated by order of the governor to provide protection of life and property, and preserve peace, order and public safety. State missions include disaster relief in times of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and forest fires, search and rescue, protection of vital public services, and support to civil defense.

Components

The Texas Air National Guard consists of the following major units:

136th Airlift Wing

Established 27 January 1947 (as 181st Fighter Squadron); operates: C-130H Hercules

The 136 AW will upgrade to the C-130J in 2023.

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“Texas Air National Guard” enters the record as air Force Militia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Texas, National and Guard can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Texas Air National Guard” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.