A Utah Air National Guard base will receive two new squadrons for cyber operations airmen, while losing a tactical air control party squadron , as the service continues to shift away from its Global War on Terror posture.

The Air Force said Thursday it has selected Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base to be the preferred location for the Air National Guard’s new cyber operations squadrons. The 109th Air Control Squadron at the base will also be inactivated, the Air Force said.

The service said the 109th Air Control Squadron’s inactivation will be part of the 2025 defense budget’s move to cut half of the Air National Guard’s tactical air control party and control and reporting center missions.

During the two decades of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Air Force’s elite TACPs

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