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2d Aero Squadron: 1 December 1915 Formed as: 1st Company, 2d Aero Squadron Pre-WWI service in the Philippines [6] Instructional flying squadron Re-designated: Squadron A, Kelly Field, Texas, July 1918 Demobilized: 18 November 1918
Squadron Name Insignia Nickname Command Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 2nd Air Refueling Squadron: Air Mobility Command: Eighteenth Air Force: 305 AMW: 1 December 1915 JB McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst, New Jersey [13] KC-46A [14] 6th Air Refueling Squadron: Air Mobility Command: Eighteenth Air Force: 60 AMW: 1 February 1940
The 2nd Air Refueling Squadron, sometimes written as 2d Air Refueling Squadron, is a unit of the United States Air Force. It is part of the 305th Air Mobility Wing at McGuire Air Force Base , part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst , New Jersey.
The unit was formed from the World War I 2d, 3d and 28th Aero Squadrons in 1919 (its emblem represents the three squadrons with Maltese crosses).The 2d Aero Squadron, having served in the Philippines beginning in 1915, was transferred back from Rockwell Field, California in 1920 after training duties in the United States during the war.
The group consisted of the 96th Aero Squadron, which had been operating independently and was equipped with French Breguet 14 B.2 bombers. Three other squadrons, the 11th , 20th and 166th Aero Squadrons were equipped with American-built de Havilland DH-4s .
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Members of the 1st Aero Squadron in Mexico, 1916. Following Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, on 9 March 1916, the 1st Aero Squadron was attached to Major General John J. Pershing's punitive expedition. It consisted of 11 pilots, 84 enlisted men (including two medics), a civilian mechanic, and was supported by an engineer officer and 14 men.