4504th Missile Training Wing The 4504th Missile Training Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit . It was last assigned to Ninth Air Force , Tactical Air Command , stationed at Orlando Air Force Base , Florida . It was inactivated on 25 March 1967 . History . The wing was a Tactical Air Command organization , with the mission to operate the USAF Tactical Missile School . Though its student squadrons trained Air Force personnel on the operation and maintenance of the MGM - 1 Matador and MGM - 13 Mace tactical cruise missiles , taking over the training mission from the Air Force Systems Command 6555th Test Wing at Patrick AFB , Florida on 18 October 1956 . The 588th Tactical Missile Group ( TMG ) was formed as a unit encompassing both launch and maintenance squadrons to be deployed together rather than single squadrons which had been done previously by TAC . The 588th TMG was assigned to Ninth Air Force and consisted of the 17th Tactical Missile Squadron ( TMS ) and the 588th Support Squadron ( SUPRON ) . The 17th TMS was later deployed to Pacific Air Forces in 1958 , being assigned to Tainan AS , Taiwan and being re - designated as the 858th TMS . Ninth Air Force also formed the 589th TMG two months later in March 1957 . The 589th included the 24th TMS and the 589th SUPRON . TAC also assigned a mobile training detachment to the school at Cape Canaveral AFS to assume crew training . The AFMC 6555th Guided Missiles Squadron assisted TAC with a training detachment in launching Matador missiles from the Cape . With the deployment of the 17th TMS to Taiwan , the 24th TMS was transferred to the 588th TMS on 25 April 1958 . The 24th engaged in crew training at Orlando AFB but never received any missiles or deployment orders before the squadron was inactivated on 15 July 1958 . The squadron did , however , deploy to Cape Canaveral AFS and launched for Matador missiles under the guidance of the 6555th Guided Missile Squadron . With the inactivation of the squadron , personnel of the 24th TMS were reassigned directly to the 588th TMG . The 588th intended to deploy its lead elements to South Korea during the fall of 1958 , but in a change of plans , the unit was in activated at Orlando AFB on 15 July 1958 . The personnel and equipment of the 588th were reassigned to the newly formed 58th Tactical Missile Group at Osan AB , South Korea , with the newly re - designated 310th Tactical Fighter Squadron becoming the 310th Tactical Missile Squadron , absorbing the personnel of the 588th TMG en - masse . In preparation for a new streamlined organization , both Tactical Missile Groups at Orlando AFB were inactivated within a few weeks of each other in mid - 1958 . The 4504th Tactical Missile Wing was redesignated as the 4504th Missile Training Wing and TAC established the USAF Tactical Missile School . The newly renamed Wing consisted of a Headquarters section , a Student Squadron , a Training Squadron and a Support Squadron . In addition the wing operated two geographically separated detachments , Detachment 1 at Holloman AFB , New Mexico for TM - 76 Mace , and Detachment 2 at Cape Canaveral Auxiliary AFS , Florida ( also known at " Camp Happiness " ) for TM - 61C Matador ( later TM - 76 Mace ) live firing of tactical missiles on the White Sands Missile Range or Eastern Missile Test Range . The school was affected by budget reductions in the early 1960s with the detachments inactivated and the organization reduced to one student squadron . By 1962 , the school had graduated over 3 , 500 personnel The Tactical Missile School was closed on 25 March 1967 with the phaseout of the MGM - 13 Mace missile out of the USAF innovatory , and the wing was inactivated . Instructors and all equipment was moved to Lowry AFB , Colorado , where Air Training Command was consolidating all USAF missile training . Units . Groups Operational Squadron Support Units