<< Combat Index home Combat Index Military Insignia US Air Force Insignia US Air Force Wings 3 Space Surveillance Squadron Unit Insignia Description: Sable, a temple dog salient Or, resting its front paws on a globe Azure gridlined Argent, within two orbit rings saltirewise of the last; all within a diminished border of the third. MOTTO: UNEQUALED EXCELLENCE. Approved on 27 Jul 1993. Lineage Constituted 3d Surveillance Squadron on 10 Aug 1990. Redesignated 3d Space Surveillance Squadron, and activated, on 1 Oct 1992. Assignments 73d Space Group, 1 Oct 1992; 21st Operations Group, 26 Apr 1995–. Stations Misawa AB, Japan, 1 Oct 1992–. Aircraft None Operations Operated passive sensors for the Deep Space Tracking System, Oct 1992–. Service Streamers None Campaign Streamers None Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers None Decorations None