Air National Guard Security Forces personnel are authorized to wear the crest of the Major Command (MAJCOM) to which they are assigned on the ascots worn with dress uniform or the Airman’s Battle Uniform, and the Air National Guard (ANG) emblem is considered a MAJCOM-equivalent emblem. Use the selection boxes at right to select the dress-uniform crest (“Shiny”) or ABU version (“Subdued”). When mobilized for Federal duty, Air National Guard Security Forces should wear the crest of the United States Air Force MAJCOM to which they are assigned.
During Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, a substantial percentage of Air National Guard’s 8,000-plus Security Forces personnel deployed between 2001 and 2010, in part due to change from voluntary mobilizations to primarily involuntary mobilizations by 2010. During that time, the ANG Security Forces exclusively conducted base-support operations, but beginning in 2011 their responsibilities expanded “outside the wire” to include detainee movement operations and protection of the Army’s agribusiness development teams in Afghanistan.