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The 61st was the host unit at Los Angeles Air Force Base, and commanded all the Air Force support groups and units assigned to the base. When active. the wing is entitled to temporary bestowal of the history and honors stems of the 61st Troop Carrier Group. Its mission was to provide base operating support to Los Angeles Air Force Base customers.
Hickam Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lieutenant Colonel Horace Meek Hickam.The installation merged in 2010 with Naval Station Pearl Harbor to become part of the newly formed Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, on the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi.
Los Angeles Air Force Base (LAAFB) is a United States Space Force base located in El Segundo, California. Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Space Systems Command field command of the United States Space Force , which was established on August 13, 2021. [ 2 ]
Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) (IATA: HNL, ICAO: PHNL, FAA LID: HNL) is a United States military base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force 's Hickam Air Force Base and the United States Navy 's Naval Station Pearl Harbor , which were merged in 2010.
Clark Air Force Base (Later Clark Air Base), Luzon, Philippines, 16 May 1949; Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, 2 December 1991 – 2 May 2005; Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, 2 May 2005 – 28 September 2012; Hickam Air Force Base, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii, 29 September 2012 – present [3]
204th Airlift Squadron Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Hawaii Air National Guard flies over Hickam Air Force Base and nearby Pearl Harbor for the arrival ceremony of its first aircraft. Hickam was the first base outside the continental U.S. to permanently host the C-17
The 203d assumed the rotating deployments of KC-135s to Hickam which started in the 1970s by SAC-gained stateside Air National Guard squadrons. On 1 August 1994 the C-130 flight was expanded and the 204th Airlift Squadron was recognized and activated by the National Guard Bureau, eventually transitioning from the C-130A to the C-130H2..
As part of this program, the 535th was activated at Bergstrom Air Force Base as a corollary unit to Strategic Air Command's 27th Fighter Group. [ 4 ] [ 12 ] With no aircraft assigned, reservists of the unit flew the North American F-82 Twin Mustangs , and later, the Republic F-84 Thunderjets [ 1 ] of the 27th.