page_title: Tactical Air Command
section_title: Pacific Air Forces and the Vietnam War
hierarchical_section_title: Tactical Air Command / History / Pacific Air Forces and the Vietnam War
caption_attribution_description: English: F-100D of the 27th TFW Source: United States Air Force via http://www.f-100.org/hun045.shtml
context_page_description: Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was a Major Command of the United States Air Force, established on 21 March 1946 and headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. It was inactivated on 1 June 1992 and its personnel and equipment absorbed by Air Combat Command.
  Tactical Air Command was established to provide a balance between strategic, air defense, and tactical forces of the post–World War II U.S. Army Air Forces followed by, in 1947, the U.S. Air Force. In 1948, the Continental Air Command assumed control over air defense, tactical air, and air reserve forces. After two years in a subordinate role, Tactical Air Command was established as a major command.
  In 1992, after assessing the mission of TAC and to accommodate a decision made regarding Strategic Air Command, Headquarters United States Air Force inactivated TAC and incorporated its resources into the newly created Air Combat Command.
context_section_description: During the tenure of the Kennedy Administration, as an additional background to the Cold War there was the onset of low intensity guerrilla wars and wars of insurgency with proxies of the Soviet Union. During 1963, the situation in South Vietnam was heating up on a daily basis and more and more "military advisors" were being sent to that small country in Southeast Asia.
caption: North American F-100D-85-NH Super Sabre  Serial 56-3460 of the 27th TFW, deployed on TDY to Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in 1964 from Cannon AFB, New Mexico.
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