Space Delta 1

Space Delta 1
DEL 1 emblem
Active	23 August 2021 (2 years, 283 days) as Space Delta 1 Detailed 1942–1945, 1962–1986, 1994–2021, 2021–present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Space Force
Type	Delta
Role	Space training
Part of	Space Training and Readiness Command
Headquarters	Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Motto(s)	Triumphant We Fly (1942–1945)[1] Peace, Power and Protection (1962–1986)[2]
Engagements	European Theater of Operations
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Website	Space Delta 1 - Training
Commanders
Commander	Col Peter C. Norsky
Deputy Commander	Lt Col Joseph G. Clemmer[3]
Senior Enlisted Leader	CMSgt Paul C. Norris[4]
Notable commanders	Joseph J. Nazzaro Michael Lutton Michele C. Edmondson
Insignia
Guidon

Space Delta 1 (DEL 1) is a United States Space Force unit responsible for space training. It runs the Space Force's basic military training, weapons school, and other advanced training courses and exercises. It was established on 23 August 2021 following the establishment of the Space Training and Readiness Command, the field command to which it reports. It is headquartered at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.^[5][6]

The Delta traces its history to the United States Air Force 381st Training Group, which provided training for the United States Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile forces and missile maintenance forces. This Air Education and Training Command (AETC) organization had been a tenant unit located on an 80-acre (32 ha) site at Vandenberg. The group was activated in the fall of 1994, when it replaced a provisional group as missile training activities at Vandenberg were transferred to AETC.

During World War II, the group's first predecessor, the 381st Bombardment Group was an Eighth Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress unit, which flew strategic bombing missions from RAF Ridgewell. The group had the highest losses of all groups on first Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission on 17 August 1943. It flew 296 combat missions, earning two Distinguished Unit Citations. It flew its last mission on 25 April 1945 before returning to the United States, where it was inactivated. The group was activated in the reserve in 1947, but was not fully manned or equipped before inactivating in 1949.

The group's second predecessor is the 381st Strategic Missile Wing. During the Cold War, the wing maintained and operated LGM-25C Titan II missiles for the Strategic Air Command at sites near McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. The wing and group were consolidated into a single unit in 1984. The consolidated unit was inactivated in 1986 as the Titan II was withdrawn from operational service.