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The 39th Bombardment Group was redesignated 39th Tactical Group and activated on 1 April 1966 at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, and replaced the 7216th Combat Support Group to control permanent support units and deployed weapons training detachments. The redesignation was part of the USAFE takeover of the base and its support functions.
12th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 12th Maintenance Group, 12th Flying Training Wing: Joint Base San Antonio [8] 18th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 18th Maintenance Group, 18th Wing: Kadena Air Base [9] 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 19th Maintenance Group, 19th Airlift Wing: Little Rock Air Force Base [10] 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron
Squadron Name Insignia Nickname Command Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 6th Attack Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 49 WG: 1 August 1943 [263] Holloman AFB, New Mexico: MQ-9 [264] 9th Attack Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 49 WG: 15 January 1941 [265]
Primarily trained in England as an aircraft maintenance squadron, did not see combat. Demobilized: 22 March 1919 Constituted in the Army Air Service as the 22d Squadron (Observation) on 14 March 1921; re-designated 23d Bombardment Squadron on 25 January 1923, Consolidated on 8 April 1924, with the 23d Aero Squadron [34]
The 39th redesignated as the 39th Special Operations Wing at Eglin in 1989 and the unit trained and participated in special operations exercises, as well as continuing to fly rescue sorties. The wing headquarters and one squadron moved to Rhein-Main Air Base , West Germany in May 1989 and became the air component of Special Operations Command ...
39th Weapons System Security Group: Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, under USAF 39th Air Base Wing 48th Munitions Squadron: RAF Lakenheath , United Kingdom , under USAF 48th Fighter Wing (F-15) [ 2 ] 52nd Munitions Maintenance Group: Spangdahlem Air Base , Germany , commanding 4 dislocated squadrons (MUNSS)
In March 1961, the 39th Munitions Maintenance Squadron was activated to oversee the wing's special weapons but it was not until 1 January 1962 that the 30th Bombardment Squadron, consisting of 15 Boeing B-52Hs, moved to Grand Forks from Homestead AFB, Florida where it had been one of the three squadrons of the 19th Bombardment Wing. [21]
In 1963 SAC discontinued its Air Refueling Wings and Strategic Wings equipped with combat aircraft and replaced them with AFCON units. [13] ADC had acted similarly in 1955 with Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars, although Project Arrow ...