the 1st weather group has a long and proud heritage starting as the far east air forces weather group in october 1944. in september 1945, the 1st wxg was assigned to the 43rd weather wing and later that year to the headquarters army air forces weather service. they were inactivated in 1948, and reactivated and assigned to the air weather service at offutt afb through the military air transport service from 1952 to 1956, after which they were again inactivated. the group reactivated once again under the 1st weather wing from 1966 to 1972 at tan son nhut ab, vietnam. the most recent period of activation was at fort mcpherson, ga., from 1992 to 1994 under the air combat command.