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Incirlik Air Base has a U.S. Air Force (USAF) complement of about five thousand airmen, with several hundred airmen from the Royal Air Force and Turkish Air Force also present, as of late 2002. The primary unit stationed at Incirlik Air Base is the 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) of the U.S. Air Force.
The 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Third Air Force. It is stationed at Incirlik Air Base , Turkey. The wing is also the host unit at Incirlik.
In August 2002, the Air Combat Command (ACC) 332nd Air Expeditionary Group at Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, was authorized to expand to a Wing. The 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing was activated as a provisional organization on 12 August 2002 by ACC, with the 332nd AEG becoming the Wing's flying organization.
6603d Air Base Wing: RCAF Goose Bay, Canada: NEAC: c. 19 Oct 1950: 1 August 1952: Replaced 1227th ABG when base transferred from MATS. Redesignated 6603d Air Base Group. [331] 6604th Air Base Wing: Pepperrell AFB, Canada: NEAC: 1 Jun 1954: 1 Apr 1957: Was 6600th ABG. Transferred to ADC as 4737th ABW. [276] 6605th Air Base Wing: Ernest Harmon ...
The United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) consists of the five distinct medical corps of the Air Force and enlisted medical technicians. The AFMS was created in 1949 after the newly independent Air Force's first Surgeon General , Maj. General Malcolm C. Grow (1887–1960), convinced the United States Army and President Harry S. Truman ...
The mission of the wing is to Fly, Fight and Win.To accomplish that mission, the wing trains and equips an F-16 squadron to be capable of worldwide mobility to perform a wide variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground fighter missions. 419th members are trained in a variety of specialties to include operations, maintenance, civil engineering, security, supply, transportation and communications.
The 447th Air Expeditionary Group is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command (ACC) and United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE). The unit is currently stationed at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The group was first active during World War II as the 447th Bombardment Group ...
The 39th Air Base Wing at Incirlik Air Base near Adana supported training deployments and regional exercises; communications for National Command Authority taskings; providing support for various units and an Air Mobility Command tenant unit providing air transport of passengers and cargo. From the 1950s – 1970s, the 39th supported various ...