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The 91st Air Refueling Squadron is part of the 6th Air Mobility Wing at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. It operates the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft conducting air refueling missions. The squadron was first activated in January 1941 as the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Langley Field , Virginia.
The United States Marine Corps Forces Central Command is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. The Marine Corps Force Central Command is responsible for all Marine Corps Forces in the United States Central Command, except for those assigned to the U.S. Special Operations Command, and Special Operations Command, Central Command.
The Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) is a sub-unified command of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). [2] It is responsible for planning special operations throughout the CENTCOM area of responsibility (AOR), planning and conducting peacetime joint/combined special operations training exercises, and orchestrating command and control of peacetime and wartime special operations as ...
MacDill Air Force Base (MacDill AFB) (IATA: MCF, ICAO: KMCF, FAA LID: MCF) is an active United States Air Force installation located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southwest of downtown Tampa, Florida. The "host wing" for MacDill AFB is the 6th Air Refueling Wing (6 ARW), assigned to the Eighteenth Air Force of the Air Mobility Command .
The 50th Air Refueling Squadron is a unit of the US Air Force, assigned to the 6th Operations Group, 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.It operates the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft conducting air refueling missions.
On 21 December 2021, the Secretary of the Air Force announced that the 6 ARW would become Main Operating Base 6 (MOB 6) for the new KC-46A Pegasus air refueling aircraft, eventually replacing the extant twenty-four (24) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft at MacDill AFB with an equal number of KC-46A aircraft. Arrival of the first KC-46A at MacDill ...
MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL (H). Namesake: Col Leslie MacDill. 8th Air Force 1946 6th Air Division 1951–1961 305th Bomb Wing 1950–1959; 306th Bomb Wing 1948–1963;
The squadron was redesignated 598th Range Squadron and activated at the MacDill Air Force Base auxiliary field at Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida on 22 September 2015. [9] It replaced Detachment 1, 23d Fighter Group, which had been managing the range and the Deployed Unit Complex at MacDill previously. The 598th Squadron operates both the ...