Commander, Air Group
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Commander, Air Group, or CAG, refers to the senior officer responsible for air operations aboard an aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy. The term traces its origins to 1938 when the first Carrier Air Group was formed. Air Groups were redesignated as Carrier Air Wings, or CVWs in the 1970s, but the head of the air wing is still referred to as the CAG.
On a Royal Navy aircraft carrier, the equivalent is the Commander (Air).
[edit] Usage in works of fiction
- In the Tom Clancy novel The Sum of All Fears, Robby Jackson serves as CAG of the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
- In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, the officer in charge of a Battlestar's fighter wings and other auxiliary craft is referred to as the CAG, even though the craft in question fly (for the most part) in space rather than in a planetary atmosphere. For much of the series' run, the Battlestar Galactica's CAG has been Lee Adama.
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