The Air Force Public Affairs Agency (AFPAA) is a United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

 agency. It provides agile and responsive multimedia

Multimedia

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 capabilities to the Air Force, as well as enhancing the future capabilities of the Public Affairs

Public affairs (military)

Public Affairs is a term for the formal offices of the branches of the United States Department of Defense whose purpose is to deal with the media and community issues. The term is also used for numerous media relations offices that are created by the U.S. military for more specific limited purposes...

 career field.

It provides an archiving and distribution capability for all public affairs products, manages licensing and branding of the Air Force trademark

Trademark

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, deploys crisis response teams for Air Force public affairs support to contingencies, and conducts research and establishes guidance on emerging technologies for future public affairs operations. The AFPAA also provides graphics support to all public affairs offices, manages career field force development through training, career tracking, and assignments, conducts force management and deployment management for the public affairs community, provides standards and evaluations guidance for public affairs activities, and procures and field tests future equipment systems for the public affairs career field.

Combat Camera Squadrons
Squadron	Shield	Location	Status
1st Combat Camera Squadron		Charleston AFB, South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...	Active
2d Combat Camera Squadron		Hill AFB, Utah Utah Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...	Active
3d Combat Camera Squadron		Lackland AFB, Texas Texas Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...	Active
4th Combat Camera Squadron		March ARB, California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	Active
1352d Combat Camera Squadron			Inactive