Air Force Security Forces personnel who are assigned to units subordinate to Air Combat Command wear the Command’s crest on the ascots authorized for the Security Force dress uniform or the Airman’s Battle Uniform. Between 1992 and 1997, Security Forces personnel assigned to a unit under Air Combat Command wore the crest on the blue beret; this was replaced a distinct Security Force flash with insignia for Enlisted Airmen and a plain, colored flash on which Officers wear insignia of rank.
Air Combat Command was established in June 1992 following the inactivation of Tactical Air Command, Strategic Air Command, and Military Airlift Command, with Air Combat Command given control of nearly all of Strategic and Tactical Air Command’s bombers, fighters, ICBMs, and other technologies and materiel. Today, Air Combat Command comprises the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center and five numbered Air Forces (1st, 9th, 12th, 24th, and 25th) as a result of the transfer of 2nd Air Force (1993), 8th Air Force (2009), and the 20th Air Force (1993).
In the event of a mobilization of Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard units under the control of Air Combat Command, the organization’s total available resources would jump from around 74,000 to 123,000-plus personnel and from 1,100 aircraft to more than 1,8000.