The United States Air Force's 219th Electronics Engineering and Radar Installation Squadron (219th EIS) is a communications infrastructure engineering Air National Guard squadron located at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The mission of the 219th EIS is to support the warfighter by engineering, installing and maintaining global C4 systems. It adds value to the country by responding to national, state and local emergencies.[1]
The 219th Radar Section has been crucial during DoD projects involving the Air Force's Over the Horizon Backskatter Radar and Air Force Research Labs projects in New York, Ohio, and Massachusetts.
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Constituted as the 11th AACS Installation and Maintenance Squadron and allotted to the Air Force Reserves
Activated on 18 June 1954
Redesignated as 11th AACS Engineering and Installation Squadron on 15 July 1958
Redesignated as 11th GEEIA Squadron on 1 January 1959
Withdrawn from the Air Force Reserve, allotted to the Air National Guard, and redesignated 219th GEEIA Squadron on 1 October 1960
Redesignated 219th Electronics Installation Squadron on 1 May 1970
Redesignated 219th Engineering and Installation Squadronca. 1 July 1981
