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On 1 April 1948, the Eielson Air Force Base Wing (Base Complement) was formed. The host-unit subsequently would be dubbed the Eielson Air force Base Bomb Wing, and finally, in January 1949, the 5010th Wing. Colonel John L. Nedwed, the third commander of the base since it fell under Alaskan Air Command fifteen months before, became the first to ...
On 20 August 1993, the 354th Operations Group was activated as part of the 354th Fighter Wing's activation at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, replacing the organization and components of the 343d Wing. This change was part of a service-wide effort to preserve the lineage of the Air Force's most honored wings.
The group directs four squadrons operating from 11 locations in Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and Japan. The group provides an Air Support Operations Center and Tactical Air Control Parties to US Army combat units at multiple echelons including United States Army Pacific, I Corps, and nine aviation, airborne, infantry and Stryker brigade combat teams of the 2nd and 25th Infantry Divisions.
25th Tactical Air Support Squadron O-2A at Eielson AFB OV-10 Bronco firing White phosphorus. The squadron was again activated in July 1971 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, as the 25th Tactical Air Support Squadron and equipped with the Cessna O-2 Skymaster. [6] [7] In 1986 the 25th upgraded to the North American OV-10 Bronco, 1986–1989. [6]
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 20 August 1993 – 15 August 2007; Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas. 5 October 2015 – 25 October 2019; Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 18 Dec 2020 – present [1] [9]
Eielson Air Force Base; 97th Bombardment Group, 1 December 1947 – 12 March 1948 5010th Air Base Wing (AAC base host unit), 20 April 1948 – 1 August 1960 4157th Strategic Wing, 1 July 1960 Re-designated: 6th Strategic Wing, 25 March 1967 – 9 August 1990. Elmendorf Air Force Base; 22d Air Refueling Squadron, 3 January 1956 – 2 March 1956
The group is located at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, with one subordinate unit at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, and one at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The Group operates the United States Air Force Survival School. The school provides instruction in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training, primarily to ...
The United States Air Force's 6th Air Refueling Wing is the host wing for MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. It is part of Air Mobility Command 's (AMC) Eighteenth Air Force . The wing's 6th Operations Group is a successor organization of the 3d Observation Group , one of the seven original combat air groups formed by the United States Army Air ...