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====Air Combat Command==== [[File:140128-F-TT327-499 (12286137733).jpg|thumb|64th Aggressor Squadron F-16 takes off from Nellis AFB during Red Flag 14-1]] Nellis transferred to Air Combat Command on 1 June 1992,{{r|USACE2010}} at the end of the [[Cold War]] when [[Tactical Air Command]] was inactivated. The [[57th Wing]] was designated on 15 June 1993 from the 57th Operations Group in conjunction with the introduction of the [[RQ-1 Predator]] and [[MQ-9 Reaper]] unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The USAF Combat Rescue School was also established in 1993 for [[HH-60 Pave Hawk]] instructional flying.<ref name="Rogers" /> "In 1996, AETC moved the [[PJ Advanced Weapons Course]] from Nellis AFB to Kirtland AFB".{{r|Manning}}{{rp|319}} The [[98th Range Wing]] was activated at Nellis on 29 October 2001 for [[Nellis Air Force Range]] control (previous range control was by the FWC).{{Citation needed|date=June 2013}} After Detachment 13, 372d Training Squadron opened its F/A-22 maintenance training facility on 29 November 2001,{{r|Manning}}{{rp|324}} on 14 January 2003 Nellis received the first production [[F-22A]] Raptor for the F-22 Force Development Evaluation program and Weapons School (12 Raptors had been assigned to the [[422d Test and Evaluation Squadron]] by July 2008).<ref name="fs" /> [[Dissimilar Air Combat Training|"Aggressor" training]] was reactivated under the 57th Operations Group in 2003<ref name="fs" /> and in 2006 Nellis had the Air Ground Operations School.{{r|Rininger}}{{rp|13}} On 1 May 2007, the [[Unmanned aerial vehicle|UAV]] reconnaissance elements assigned to the 57th Operations Group transferred to the [[432nd Wing]].<ref name="fs" /> Detachment 1 of the [[Space Warfare Center]] was established at Nellis in 1996 after the "Nellis [[Combined Air Operations Center]]",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lambeth |first=Benjamin S. |title=Mastering the Ultimate High Ground: Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfYaaQPHeb0C&pg=PA131|year=1999|publisher=Rand Corporation|isbn=978-0-8330-3412-0|page=131}}</ref> the Warfare Center transferred [[Nellis Air Force Range]] control to the [[98th Range Wing]] in 2001,<ref name="fs" /> and the annual [[Aviation Nation]] airshow began at Nellis in 2002. The [[Nellis Solar Power Plant]] constructed 23 April–December 2007 on Nellis' west side was visited by president [[Barack Obama]] on 27 May 2009. In 2010, the 505th Operations Squadron operated the [[Combined Air and Space Operations Center]]-Nellis.<ref>{{Cite web |quote=Posted 3/3/2010 |title=Combined Air and Space Operations Center-Nellis |url=http://www.505ccw.acc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15313 |format=fact sheet |publisher=Public Affairs, [[505th Command and Control Wing]] |access-date=6 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218103655/http://www.505ccw.acc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15313 |archive-date=18 February 2013 }}</ref> The [[57th Adversary Tactics Group]] merged into the [[57th Operations Group]] on 31 March 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=57th OG, ATG merge functions, streamlines mission readiness|url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2135072/57th-og-atg-merge-functions-streamlines-mission-readiness/|last=West|first=Master Sgt. Heidi|date=3 April 2020|website=US Air Force|language=en-US|access-date=1 May 2020}}</ref> On 1 June 2020 the 800th Rapid Engineer Deployable, Heavy Operational Repair Squadron, Engineer (RED HORSE) Group activated at Nellis, with the 820th Red Horse Squadron as a subordinate unit.<ref>{{Cite web|title=800th RED HORSE Group|url=https://www.9af.acc.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/2203145/800th-red-horse-group/|access-date=21 August 2020|website=15th Air Force|publisher=US Air Force|language=en-US}}</ref>
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