Editing Eglin Air Force Base (section)

=== 1960s ===
[[File:Eglin Air Force Base - Aircraft Parking Apron.jpg|alt=Eglin AFB aircraft parking apron during 1964|left|thumb|Eglin AFB aircraft parking apron in 1964]]

The USAF Special Air Warfare Center was activated 27 April 1962,<ref name="Mueller">Mueller, Robert, "Air Force Bases Vol. 1: Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982", United States Air Force Historical Research Center, Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1989, {{ISBN|0-912799-53-6}}, p. 136.</ref> with the 1st Combat Applications Group (CAG) organized as a combat systems development and test agency under the SAWC. The 1st CAG concentrated on testing and evaluation of primarily short-term projects which might improve Air Force [[counter-insurgency]] (COIN) operations. The Special Air Warfare Center, located at [[Hurlburt Field]], undertook to develop tactical air doctrine while training crews for special air warfare in places like [[Southeast Asia]]. By mid-1963, SAW groups were in [[Vietnam]] and [[Panama]].<ref>Wolk, Herman S., [http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-110322-017.pdf "USAF Plans and Policies R&D for Southeast Asia 1965–1967,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423101321/http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-110322-017.pdf |date=23 April 2012 }} Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., June 1969, pp. 3–4,</ref>

The USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center was activated on 1 November 1963. It would be re-designated as the USAF Air Warfare Center on 1 October 1991.<ref name="r1">[http://www.eglin.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=14787&page=1 Eglin Air Force Base – Fact Sheet : History of the 53rd Wing]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717190339/http://www.eglin.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=14787&page=1 |date=17 July 2011 }}. Eglin.af.mil. Retrieved on 31 October 2011.</ref>

With the increasing [[United States in the Vietnam War|U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia]] in the 1960s, the need for increased emphasis on conventional weapons development made Eglin's mission even more important. On 1 August 1968, the Air Proving Ground Center was redesignated the Armament Development and Test Center to centralize responsibility for research, development, test and evaluation, and initial acquisition of non-nuclear munitions for the Air Force. On 1 October 1979, the center was given division status. The Armament Division, redesignated Munitions Systems Division on 15 March 1989, placed into production the [[precision-guided munitions]] for the [[laser-guided bomb|laser]], [[Television guidance|television]], and [[Infrared homing|infrared]] guided bombs; two anti-armor weapon systems; and an improved hard target weapon, the [[GBU-28]], used in Operation Desert Storm during the [[Persian Gulf War]]. The Division was also responsible for developing the [[Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile]] (AMRAAM), an Air Force-led joint project with the [[U.S. Navy]].