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style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31st_Fighter_Wing.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/31st_Fighter_Wing.png/250px-31st_Fighter_Wing.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/31st_Fighter_Wing.png/375px-31st_Fighter_Wing.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/31st_Fighter_Wing.png/500px-31st_Fighter_Wing.png 2x" data-file-width="1821" data-file-height="1797" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Active</th><td class="infobox-data">1947–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Role</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">Fighter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Forces_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Air Forces Europe">United States Air Forces Europe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Garrison/HQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aviano_Air_Base" title="Aviano Air Base">Aviano Air Base</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Motto(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Return With Honor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li>Vietnam (1966–1970)</li> <li>Expeditionary Operations</li></ul> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Operation_Deny_Flight" title="Operation Deny Flight">Operation Deny Flight</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force" title="Operation Deliberate Force">Operation Deliberate Force</a></dd> <dd>Operation Decisive Edge</dd> <dd>Operation Deliberate Guard</dd> <dd>Operation Deliberate Forge</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Operation_Allied_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Allied Force">Operation Allied Force</a></dd></dl> <ul><li>NATO Service</li></ul> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Operation_Joint_Guardian" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Joint Guardian">Operation Joint Guardian</a></dd> <dd>NATO Kosovo Service</dd></dl> <ul><li>Global War on Terrorism</li></ul> <dl><dd>Afghanistan Campaign (TBD)</dd> <dd>Iraqi Campaign (TBD)</dd></dl> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Decorations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Unit_Citation" class="mw-redirect" title="Distinguished Unit Citation">Distinguished Unit Citation</a> <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Unit_Citation_(United_States)" title="Presidential Unit Citation (United States)">Presidential Unit Citation</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Outstanding_Unit_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Force Outstanding Unit Award">Air Force Outstanding Unit Award w/ V Device</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Vietnam_Gallantry_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross">Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross w/ Palm</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Current<br />commander</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brigadier_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier General">Brigadier General</a> Tad D. Clark</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Notable<br />commanders</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abner_M._Aust" class="mw-redirect" title="Abner M. Aust">Abner M. Aust</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_F._Wald" title="Charles F. Wald">Charles F. Wald</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lance_K._Landrum" title="Lance K. Landrum">Lance K. Landrum</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Q._Brown_Jr." title="Charles Q. Brown Jr.">Charles Q. Brown Jr.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>31st Fighter Wing (31 FW)</b> is a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> unit assigned to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Forces_in_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Air Forces in Europe">United States Air Forces in Europe</a> major command and the <a href="/wiki/Third_Air_Force" title="Third Air Force">Third Air Force</a>. It is stationed at <a href="/wiki/Aviano_Air_Base" title="Aviano Air Base">Aviano Air Base</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, a <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO) base run by the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Air_Force" title="Italian Air Force">Italian Air Force</a>. </p><p>The 31st Fighter Wing is the only United States fighter wing south of <a href="/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">the Alps</a>. This strategic location makes the wing important for operations in NATO's southern region.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Fact_Sheet_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Fact_Sheet-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 31st FW maintains two F-16 fighter squadrons, the <a href="/wiki/555th_Fighter_Squadron" title="555th Fighter Squadron">555th Fighter Squadron</a><sup id="cite_ref-555FSfacts_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-555FSfacts-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/510th_Fighter_Squadron" title="510th Fighter Squadron">510th Fighter Squadron</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-510FSfacts_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-510FSfacts-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> allowing the wing to conduct offense and defensive combat air operations. </p><p>The 31st Fighter Wing first activated in 1947, but it traces its heritage to its <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> predecessor unit, the <a href="/wiki/31st_Pursuit_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="31st Pursuit Group">31st Pursuit Group</a>. The group's lineage began with its activation at Selfridge Field Michigan, on 1 February 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-Lineage_and_Honors_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lineage_and_Honors-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Redesignated as the 31 Fighter Group shortly before entering the war, it amassed an impressive record. Number one in the Mediterranean theater of operations in terms of aerial victories, the group was involved in 15 WWII campaigns and earned two <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Unit_Citation" class="mw-redirect" title="Distinguished Unit Citation">Distinguished Unit Citations</a>. The wing celebrates the heritage of its predecessor by flying its honors on the wing flag. </p><p>The wing traces its lineage to its activation on 20 November 1947, first designated as the 31st Fighter Wing, and stationed at Turner Airfield, Georgia. Since then, the wing has been stationed at George Air Force Base, California and Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, until finally coming to Aviano Air Base, Italy in April 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-Lineage_and_Honors_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lineage_and_Honors-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 31st Fighter Wing has acted as a key player in several significant engagements and operations during its long history, including several operations in Vietnam, the Balkans and <a href="/wiki/Operation_Odyssey_Dawn" title="Operation Odyssey Dawn">Operation Odyssey Dawn</a>. </p><p>In peacetime, the 31st FW prepares for its combat role by maintaining aircraft and personnel in a high state of readiness.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Fact_Sheet_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Fact_Sheet-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The commander of the 31st Fighter Wing is <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general_(United_States)" title="Brigadier general (United States)">Brigadier General</a> Tad D. Clark.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Command_Chief_Master_Sergeant" class="mw-redirect" title="Command Chief Master Sergeant">Command Chief Master Sergeant</a> is <a href="/wiki/Chief_Master_Sergeant" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Master Sergeant">Chief Master Sergeant</a> Jeremy L. Unterseher.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mission">Mission</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Mission"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 31st Fighter Wing is made up of four groups, each consisting of several squadrons. </p><p>The 31st Operations Group ensures the combat readiness of two F-16CG squadrons, one HH-60G rescue squadron, one air control squadron, and one operational support squadron conducting and supporting worldwide air operations. The group prepares fighter pilots, controllers, and support personnel to execute US and <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> war plans and contingency operations. It trains, equips, plans, and provides weather, intelligence, standardization/evaluation, and command and control sustaining global flying operations.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Operations_Group_Factsheet_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Operations_Group_Factsheet-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 31st Maintenance Group provides peacetime and combat maintenance and munitions control, and executive support for the 31st Fighter Wing, geographically separated units under the command and control of the wing, and units gained during advanced stages of readiness. The group also responds to humanitarian and contingency logistics support requirements as directed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff through Headquarters <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Forces_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Air Forces Europe">United States Air Forces Europe</a> (USAFE) to locations in Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Maintenance_Group_Fact_Sheet_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Maintenance_Group_Fact_Sheet-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 31st Mission Support Group's goal is to provide infrastructure and service to support a premiere combat capability and quality of life to the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano community and multiple geographically separated units.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Mission_Support_Group_Fact_Sheet_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Mission_Support_Group_Fact_Sheet-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 31st Medical Group supports the readiness of 31st Fighter Wing and associated units throughout the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO) southern region, ensuring the health of its community by providing patient-focused medical care from internal, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">Department of Defense</a> and host nation resources. The unit employs medical resources and preventive initiatives to ensure airmen remain mission ready to support the Expeditionary Air Force, US and NATO objectives worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Medical_Group_Fact_Sheet_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Medical_Group_Fact_Sheet-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Component_units">Component units</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Component units"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unless otherwise indicated, units are based at Aviano Air Base, Italy.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li>31st Comptroller Squadron</li></ul> <p><b>31st Operations Group</b> </p> <ul><li>31st Operations Support Squadron</li> <li><a href="/wiki/56th_Rescue_Squadron" title="56th Rescue Squadron">56th Rescue Squadron</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_HH-60_Pave_Hawk" title="Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk">HH-60G Pavehawk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_Rescue_Squadron" title="57th Rescue Squadron">57th Rescue Squadron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/510th_Fighter_Squadron" title="510th Fighter Squadron">510th Fighter Squadron</a> – <a href="/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon" title="General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon">F-16CG Fighting Falcon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/555th_Fighter_Squadron" title="555th Fighter Squadron">555th Fighter Squadron</a> – F-16CG Fighting Falcon</li> <li>606th Air Control Squadron</li> <li><a href="/wiki/731st_Expeditionary_Attack_Squadron" title="731st Expeditionary Attack Squadron">731st Expeditionary Attack Squadron</a> (<a href="/wiki/RoAF_71st_Air_Base" title="RoAF 71st Air Base">Câmpia Turzii</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>31st Maintenance Group</b> </p> <ul><li>31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron</li> <li>31st Maintenance Squadron</li> <li>31st Munitions Squadron</li> <li>731st Munitions Squadron (<a href="/wiki/Darby_Military_Community" title="Darby Military Community">Camp Darby</a>)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <p><b>31st Mission Support Group</b> </p> <ul><li>31st Civil Engineer Squadron</li> <li>31st Communications Squadron</li> <li>31st Contracting Squadron</li> <li>31st Force Support Squadron</li> <li>31st Logistics Readiness Squadron</li> <li>31st Security Forces Squadron</li></ul> <p><b>31st Medical Group</b> </p> <ul><li>31st Dental Squadron</li> <li>31st Health Care Operations Squadron</li> <li>31st Medical Support Squadron</li> <li>31st Operational Medical Readiness Squadron</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aircraft">Aircraft</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aircraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31fw-aviano-f16s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/31fw-aviano-f16s.jpg/220px-31fw-aviano-f16s.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/31fw-aviano-f16s.jpg/330px-31fw-aviano-f16s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/31fw-aviano-f16s.jpg/440px-31fw-aviano-f16s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="386" /></a><figcaption>31st FW General Dynamics F-16DG Block 40D Fighting Falcon Serial 90-0795</figcaption></figure> <p>The 31st Fighter Wing currently has two operational squadrons, the 555th and 510th Fighter Squadrons flying the <a href="/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon" title="General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon">F-16CG/DG</a>. Both use the tail code "AV" for AViano. Each F-16 has a tail markings in the squadron colors Green with the words "Triple Nickel" in white for the 555th FS and Purple with the words "Buzzards" in white for the 510th FS. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a compact, multi-role fighter aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is highly maneuverable and has proven itself in air-to-air combat and air-to-surface attack. It provides a relatively low-cost, high-performance weapon system for the United States and allied nations.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Throughout the wing's history, the 31st Fighter Wing and its predecessor group have flown several aircraft, including <a href="/wiki/Seversky_P-35" title="Seversky P-35">P-35</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bell_P-39_Airacobra" title="Bell P-39 Airacobra">P-39</a>, <a href="/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk" title="Curtiss P-40 Warhawk">P-40</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang" title="North American P-51 Mustang">P-51</a> aircraft in World War II, <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star" title="Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star">F-80</a> aircraft for a short period from 1946 to 1947, and then P-80s, F-51s and <a href="/wiki/Republic_F-84_Thunderjet" title="Republic F-84 Thunderjet">F-84s</a> after World War II. The wing began flying <a href="/wiki/North_American_F-100_Super_Sabre" title="North American F-100 Super Sabre">F-100s</a> before the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a> and flew that aircraft into the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>. After the U.S. force reduction in Vietnam, the wing switched to <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II" title="McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II">F-4s</a>. In 1970 and 1980, the wing upgraded all F-4Es to F-4Ds and began training all F-4 aircrews. In 1985, the wing received its next aircraft, the F-16 and resumed an air defense mission.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st-fighter-wing-1940s-TAC.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/31st-fighter-wing-1940s-TAC.png/125px-31st-fighter-wing-1940s-TAC.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/31st-fighter-wing-1940s-TAC.png/188px-31st-fighter-wing-1940s-TAC.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/31st-fighter-wing-1940s-TAC.png/250px-31st-fighter-wing-1940s-TAC.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="327" /></a><figcaption>Emblem of the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing (1960s)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31few-turner-F84fs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/31few-turner-F84fs.jpg/220px-31few-turner-F84fs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/31few-turner-F84fs.jpg/330px-31few-turner-F84fs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/31few-turner-F84fs.jpg/440px-31few-turner-F84fs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="460" /></a><figcaption>General Motors F-84F-25-GK Thunderstreaks of the 31st Fighter Escort Wing, about 1952. Serial 51-9378 identifiable</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st_FEW_Republic_F-84G-1-RE_Thunderjet_51-821.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/31st_FEW_Republic_F-84G-1-RE_Thunderjet_51-821.jpg/220px-31st_FEW_Republic_F-84G-1-RE_Thunderjet_51-821.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/31st_FEW_Republic_F-84G-1-RE_Thunderjet_51-821.jpg/330px-31st_FEW_Republic_F-84G-1-RE_Thunderjet_51-821.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/31st_FEW_Republic_F-84G-1-RE_Thunderjet_51-821.jpg/440px-31st_FEW_Republic_F-84G-1-RE_Thunderjet_51-821.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1619" data-file-height="838" /></a><figcaption>31st Fighter-Escort Wing Republic F-84G-1-RE Thunderjet 51-821 Turner AFB, Georgia, 1952.</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/31st_Operations_Group" title="31st Operations Group">31st Operations Group</a></div> <p>The 31st Pursuit Group, the predecessor unit of the wing's 31st Operations Group, was activated at <a href="/wiki/Selfridge_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Selfridge Field">Selfridge Field</a>, Michigan, on 1 February 1940. </p><p>In June 1942, the 31st Pursuit Group was transferred to England without planes and began training in British <a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire_(early_Merlin_powered_variants)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supermarine Spitfire (early Merlin powered variants)">Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vbs</a> at Achem and <a href="/wiki/RAF_High_Ercall" title="RAF High Ercall">High Ercall</a> air bases. They were the first complete American combat group in the <a href="/wiki/European_Theater_of_Operations" class="mw-redirect" title="European Theater of Operations">European Theater of Operations</a> and the first to engage in combat.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From August through mid-October 1942 the group flew patrols and participated in operations over German controlled France including the <a href="/wiki/Dieppe_Raid" title="Dieppe Raid">Dieppe Raid</a> on 19 Aug.. That day, 2nd Lt. Samuel Junkins became the first American operating in an American combat unit to shoot down a German aircraft operating over the British Isles.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 14 October 1942, the group was declared non-operational on prior to boarding ships bound for its next assignment. </p><p>That next assignment included participating in the invasion force that landed in North Africa on 8 November 1942, becoming the first American Air Force unit to see combat in theater.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They flew from Gibraltar to <a href="/wiki/Tafaraoui_Airfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Tafaraoui Airfield">Tafaraoui Airfield</a>, Algeria, where they scored their first victories in the campaign – shooting down three French fighters that were strafing the airfield just as the 31st arrived. From there they moved quickly from base to base throughout <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a> and Tunisia, engaging in ground attack missions and later escorting P-39s and <a href="/wiki/Douglas_A-20_Havoc" title="Douglas A-20 Havoc">A-20s</a> on missions to attack German troop positions and convoys. They found themselves as close as 15 miles from the front lines, and this led to near disaster on at least one occasion. During a major German counteroffensive in February 1943, the group was forced to evacuate their position at <a href="/wiki/Thelepte_Airfield" title="Thelepte Airfield">Thelepte</a>, Tunisia, only a few miles from the advancing <a href="/wiki/German_Army_(1935%E2%80%931945)" title="German Army (1935–1945)">German Army</a>, leaving most of their supplies behind. The counteroffensive, however, was short-lived and by May 1943, the Germans surrendered in <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>. During the North Africa campaign, the group claimed 61 <a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a> aircraft destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the highlights of the group's time in North Africa was the selection of the 308th Fighter Squadron to provide combat air patrols for the arrival of President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> and Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Casablanca_Conference" title="Casablanca Conference">Casablanca conference</a> in Morocco.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> forces looked to Europe, the 31st once again rose to the challenge as they were the first <a href="/wiki/USAAF" class="mw-redirect" title="USAAF">US Army Air Forces</a> unit in combat in Malta and Sicily and the first to land in Italy. They distinguished the unit by destroying seven enemy fighters attacking allied shipping during the <a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">invasion of Sicily</a> and six more attacking the invasion force on the beaches of Salerno. Their missions consisted mainly of sweeps over allied positions and escorting bombers attacking German positions. January 1944 brought the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio" title="Battle of Anzio">Allied landing at Anzio</a> with the 31st the sole provider of air cover for the invasion and beachhead.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1944 the group exchanged their Spitfires for the new <a href="/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang" title="North American P-51 Mustang">North American P-51 Mustangs</a>. This brought about an immediate mission change as the Mustangs enjoyed a much longer range and were tasked to escort heavy bombers on long range missions into Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, France and Northern Italy. During one of their first missions over Ploesti, Romania on 21 April 1944, the group earned their first Distinguished Unit Citation for covering the raids despite severe weather and as many as 50 enemy fighters defending the area. They received their second Distinguished Unit Citation in July 1944 following a mission to escort P-38s on a raid from Ukraine into Romania and Poland. By the time they had returned to Italy, they had destroyed 37 enemy aircraft, including 21 enemy fighter bombers on their way to attack Russian ground forces with no losses of their own. </p><p>The 31st remained active through the end of the war, not only flying bomber escort, but also photo reconnaissance and troop carrier escort and took part in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Dragoon" title="Operation Dragoon">Operation Dragoon</a>, the invasion of Southern France. When the shooting stopped, the 31st Fighter Group sat as the undisputed top scoring allied fighter group in the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Theater_of_Operations" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean Theater of Operations">Mediterranean Theater of Operations</a> and the fifth highest overall for the Army Air Forces with 570 confirmed aerial victories. The group sailed to home on 13 August 1945, one of the last units to depart Europe. The unit inactivated on 7 November 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Post_World_War_II">Post World War II</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Post World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the war, the 31st Fighter Group, as it was now called, activated at <a href="/wiki/Giebelstadt_Army_Airfield" title="Giebelstadt Army Airfield">Giebelstadt Army Airfield</a>, Germany as part of the US <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">occupation forces</a>, on 20 August 1946, where they flew <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star" title="Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star">Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars</a>, the first operational American jet fighter aircraft. From there the unit transferred without personnel of equipment to <a href="/wiki/Langley_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Langley Field">Langley Field</a>, Virginia in June 1947 and then to <a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Albany#Turner_Air_Force_Base_(1947-66)" title="Naval Air Station Albany">Turner Field</a>, Georgia, in September of that same year. </p><p>Two months later in November, the <b>31st Fighter Wing</b> was organized as part of the test by the Air Force of the <a href="/wiki/Hobson_Plan" title="Hobson Plan">wing base organization</a> system, which unified combat <a href="/wiki/Group_(military_aviation_unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group (military aviation unit)">groups</a> and their support organizations under a single wing, carrying the same number as the combat group. The 31st Fighter Group became the combat component of the new wing. The experiment proved successful and the Air Force adopted it on a permanent basis in the summer of 1948, making the wing its basic combat unit.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Originally assigned F-51 Mustangs, the wing began converting to <a href="/wiki/Republic_F-84_Thunderjet" title="Republic F-84 Thunderjet">Republic F-84 Thunderjets</a> in August 1948. In 1950 the wing transferred from <a href="/wiki/Tactical_Air_Command" title="Tactical Air Command">Tactical Air Command</a> to <a href="/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command" title="Strategic Air Command">Strategic Air Command</a> and was redesignated as the 31st Fighter-Escort Wing.<sup id="cite_ref-Lineage_and_Honors_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lineage_and_Honors-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1951 the 31st Wing became the first unit to receive the upgraded F-84G model of the Thunderjet. In addition to engine, armament and avionics updates, the F-84G was the first fighter designed for <a href="/wiki/Air_refueling" class="mw-redirect" title="Air refueling">air refueling</a> and the first single seat <a href="/wiki/Fighter-bomber" title="Fighter-bomber">fighter-bomber</a> with a designed nuclear delivery capability.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operation_Fox_Peter_One">Operation Fox Peter One</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Operation Fox Peter One"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The wing pioneered the development of in flight refueling tactics. On 6 July 1952 the wing executed <b>Operation Fox Peter One</b>, the mass movement of the entire wing from Turner Field to <a href="/wiki/Misawa_Air_Base" title="Misawa Air Base">Misawa Air Base</a>, Japan using <a href="/wiki/Aerial_refueling" title="Aerial refueling">aerial refueling</a> to fly non-stop from Turner to <a href="/wiki/Travis_Air_Force_Base" title="Travis Air Force Base">Travis Air Force Base</a>, California, and from Travis to <a href="/wiki/Hickam_Air_Force_Base" title="Hickam Air Force Base">Hickam Air Force Base</a>, Hawaii. The unit then island-hopped across the rest of the Pacific with stops at <a href="/wiki/Midway_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Midway Island">Midway</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eniwetok_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="Eniwetok Atoll">Eniwetok Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iwo_Jima" title="Iwo Jima">Iwo Jima</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yokota_Air_Base" title="Yokota Air Base">Yokota Air Base</a>, Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The sheer magnitude of this accomplishment was sufficient to name the 31st Fighter Escort Wing as the recipient of the first-ever <a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Outstanding_Unit_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Force Outstanding Unit Award">Air Force Outstanding Unit Award</a>. The wing commander, Colonel <a href="/wiki/David_C._Schilling" title="David C. Schilling">David C. Schilling</a>, won the <a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Force Association">Air Force Association</a> Trophy, which was later named after him. This movement included the longest over-water flight attempted to that date and was the first trans-Pacific mass flight of jet aircraft. As an encore, on 20 August 1953, Col Schilling led a flight of eight F-84s on a 10.5-hour non-stop flight from Turner Field to <a href="/wiki/Nouasseur_Air_Base" title="Nouasseur Air Base">Nouasseur Air Base</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_protectorate_in_Morocco" title="French protectorate in Morocco">French Morocco</a>. This successful flight culminated in the <a href="/wiki/40th_Air_Division" title="40th Air Division">40th Air Division</a> of the Strategic Air Command receiving the Mackay Trophy<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1953. </p><p>During 1953, the wing, then known as the 31st Strategic Fighter Wing, deployed to Japan and Alaska to provide air defense in the northern Pacific. </p><p>On 15 March 1959, the wing moved without people or equipment to <a href="/wiki/George_Air_Force_Base" title="George Air Force Base">George Air Force Base</a>, California During the wing's time in California, it deployed units for four-month alert rotations to <a href="/wiki/Moron_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Moron Air Base">Moron Air Base</a>, Spain and Aviano Air Base, Italy.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st-TFW-GeorgeAFB-1961.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/31st-TFW-GeorgeAFB-1961.jpg/220px-31st-TFW-GeorgeAFB-1961.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/31st-TFW-GeorgeAFB-1961.jpg/330px-31st-TFW-GeorgeAFB-1961.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/31st-TFW-GeorgeAFB-1961.jpg/440px-31st-TFW-GeorgeAFB-1961.jpg 2x" data-file-width="618" data-file-height="378" /></a><figcaption>F-100s assigned to the 31 TFW on the ramp at George AFB, CA, 1961.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuban_Missile_Crisis_and_Vietnam_War">Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Crisis_of_1961" title="Berlin Crisis of 1961">Berlin Crisis</a> in October and November 1961, the wing deployed its 309th Fighter Squadron to <a href="/wiki/Spangdahlem_Air_Base" title="Spangdahlem Air Base">Spangdahlem Air Base</a>, Germany to bolster the U.S. military forces in Europe. During 1962, the wing moved from George to <a href="/wiki/Homestead_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Homestead Air Force Base">Homestead Air Force Base</a>, Florida, while simultaneously deploying a squadron to <a href="/wiki/Kadena_Air_Base" title="Kadena Air Base">Kadena Air Base</a>, Japan for four months without losing any operational capability. Then, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the 31st planned operational missions and participated in events that ultimately led to the removal of missiles from <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>. In recognition of these achievements, the wing was awarded its second Outstanding Unit Award.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st-TFW-Homestead-CMC-1962.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/31st-TFW-Homestead-CMC-1962.jpg/220px-31st-TFW-Homestead-CMC-1962.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/31st-TFW-Homestead-CMC-1962.jpg/330px-31st-TFW-Homestead-CMC-1962.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/31st-TFW-Homestead-CMC-1962.jpg/440px-31st-TFW-Homestead-CMC-1962.jpg 2x" data-file-width="591" data-file-height="442" /></a><figcaption>F-100s dispersed on the flightline at Homestead AFB, Florida during the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a></figcaption></figure> <p>On 8 February 1964, the 308th Fighter Squadron flew a non-stop mission from Homestead to <a href="/wiki/Cigli_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Cigli Air Base">Cigli Air Base</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>. The 6,600-mile trip required eight in-flight refuelings and set a new record for the longest mass flight of jet aircraft to cross the Atlantic. The flight also led to the wing receiving the Tactical Air Command Outstanding Fighter Wing Award for 1964 for the second consecutive year.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1965, the wing deployed the 307th Tactical Fighter Squadron to <a href="/wiki/Bien_Hoa_Air_Base" title="Bien Hoa Air Base">Bien Hoa Air Base</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a>. The wing sent the 308th Tactical Fighter Squadron to replace them in December on a permanent change of station. The following April, the 307th squadron moved to <a href="/wiki/Torrejon_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Torrejon Air Base">Torrejon Air Base</a>, Spain and in November 1966, the wing received orders to deploy to <a href="/wiki/Tuy_Hoa_Air_Base" title="Tuy Hoa Air Base">Tuy Hoa Air Base</a>, South Vietnam. </p><p>The 31st wing arrived at Tuy Hoa, and was assigned to the 7th Air Force, on Christmas Day 1966. The wing provided <a href="/wiki/Close_air_support" title="Close air support">close air support</a> and <a href="/wiki/Air_interdiction" title="Air interdiction">air interdiction</a> for US and <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam" title="Army of the Republic of Vietnam">Army of the Republic of Vietnam</a> (ARVN) units in the central region of the country. In 1968 they helped defend installations against enemy forces during the <a href="/wiki/Tet_Offensive" title="Tet Offensive">Tet Offensive</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Khe_Sanh" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Khe Sanh">siege of Khe Sanh</a> and were later singled out for their outstanding contribution during the extraction of friendly forces from <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kham_Duc" title="Battle of Kham Duc">Kham Duc</a>. They reached the 100,000 combat sortie milestone in September 1969. The wing earned two Outstanding Unit Awards, one with a combat "V" device, a Presidential Unit Citation, two Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Crosses with Palm and ten campaign streamers for action in Vietnam. On 15 October 1970, the wing returned to Homestead without people or equipment as part of the United States force reduction in Vietnam. At the same time, the wing switched from flying F-100s to <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4E_Phantom_II" class="mw-redirect" title="McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II">McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom IIs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:309tfs-tuyhoa1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/309tfs-tuyhoa1.jpg/220px-309tfs-tuyhoa1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/309tfs-tuyhoa1.jpg/330px-309tfs-tuyhoa1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/309tfs-tuyhoa1.jpg/440px-309tfs-tuyhoa1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="256" /></a><figcaption>North American F-100D-60-NA Super Sabres Serials 56-2927 (Front) and 56-2952 of the 309th TFS on the ramp at Tuy Hoa AB South Vietnam, April 1970.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1971–1990"><span id="1971.E2.80.931990"></span>1971–1990</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1971–1990"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The wing assumed a dual-role function with the primary mission of air defense of southern Florida and the secondary as a replacement training unit. Two of the wing's fighter squadrons, the 307th and 309th, were designated to perform pilot replacement training. From April to August 1972, the 308th deployed to <a href="/wiki/Udorn_Royal_Thai_Air_Force_Base" title="Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base">Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base</a>, Thailand to participate in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Linebacker" title="Operation Linebacker">Operation Linebacker</a>, followed in July by the 307th TFS. In June 1972, Captains John Cerak and David B. Dingee of the 308th Tactical Fighter Squadron were shot down and captured by <a href="/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnamese</a> forces and were confirmed as prisoners of war. They were both released and returned to the United States in March 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 27 June 1972, Lt Col Farrell J. Sullivan and Captain Richard L. Francis of the <a href="/wiki/523d_Tactical_Fighter_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="523d Tactical Fighter Squadron">523d Tactical Fighter Squadron</a> of the <a href="/wiki/405th_Fighter_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="405th Fighter Wing">405th Fighter Wing</a> were shot down over <a href="/wiki/Hanoi" title="Hanoi">Hanoi</a> while flying an F-4E assigned to the 308th squadron while the 308th was on temporary duty at Udorn. Sullivan was classified as <a href="/wiki/Missing_in_action" title="Missing in action">missing in action</a> and following the war, was reclassified as <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">killed in action</a>. Francis was captured and remained a POW until his release at the end of hostilities on 28 March 1973. </p><p>On 15 October 1972, Captains James L. Hendrickson and Gary M. Rubus<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the 307th Tactical Fighter Squadron<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shot down a <a href="/wiki/MiG-21" class="mw-redirect" title="MiG-21">MiG-21</a> northeast of Hanoi. This marked the first aerial victory for the wing in Vietnam and the first for the wing since the end of World War II. </p><p>In 1979 and 1980, the wing transferred its F-4Es to <a href="/wiki/Air_National_Guard" title="Air National Guard">Air National Guard</a> units and the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Air_Force" title="Egyptian Air Force">Egyptian Air Force</a>, and began operating F-4Ds.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:F-4E-homestead.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/F-4E-homestead.jpg/220px-F-4E-homestead.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="98" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/F-4E-homestead.jpg/330px-F-4E-homestead.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/F-4E-homestead.jpg/440px-F-4E-homestead.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="268" /></a><figcaption>McDonnell Douglas F-4E-37-MC Phantom 68-0365 of the 309th TFS, about 1971.</figcaption></figure> <p>On 30 March 1981, the wing assumed a larger responsibility for training all F-4 aircrews. Training became the wing's primary mission until 1985 when the wing received its next aircraft, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, and resumed an air defense and air interdiction mission. The 31st Tactical Fighter Training Wing won the 1982 Daedalian Maintenance Trophy Award for the best maintenance complex in the United States Air Force. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hurricane_Andrew_and_Balkan_Operations">Hurricane Andrew and Balkan Operations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hurricane Andrew and Balkan Operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As part of the most extensive restructuring since the Air Force became a separate service, Tactical Air Command was inactivated and <a href="/wiki/Air_Combat_Command" title="Air Combat Command">Air Combat Command</a> was activated and the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing was redesignated to its current name, the 31st Fighter Wing.<sup id="cite_ref-Lineage_and_Honors_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lineage_and_Honors-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 24 August 1992 <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew" title="Hurricane Andrew">Hurricane Andrew</a> swept across southern Florida, leaving extensive damage in its wake. Every building at Homestead AFB received some damage, many buildings were destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fighter squadrons evacuated most of the planes before the storm but were unable to return. In the aftermath, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a> recommended complete closure of the base, but in June 1993, the <a href="/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure" title="Base Realignment and Closure">Base Realignment and Closure</a> Commission recommended realigning the base under the <a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Reserve_Command" title="Air Force Reserve Command">Air Force Reserve Command</a> and inactivating the 31st Fighter Wing. The squadrons were assigned to other wings and the 31st began inactivation proceedings. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:F-16a-homestead.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/F-16a-homestead.jpg/220px-F-16a-homestead.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/F-16a-homestead.jpg/330px-F-16a-homestead.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/F-16a-homestead.jpg/440px-F-16a-homestead.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="301" /></a><figcaption>General Dynamics F-16A Block 15Q Fighting Falcon 83-1080 of the 308th FS, about 1988.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st-fw-hurricane-andrew-1992.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/31st-fw-hurricane-andrew-1992.jpg/220px-31st-fw-hurricane-andrew-1992.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/31st-fw-hurricane-andrew-1992.jpg/330px-31st-fw-hurricane-andrew-1992.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/31st-fw-hurricane-andrew-1992.jpg/440px-31st-fw-hurricane-andrew-1992.jpg 2x" data-file-width="709" data-file-height="474" /></a><figcaption>The damaged control tower and base operations building on Homestead AFB, Florida, after Hurricane Andrew smashed into the base on 24 August 1992.</figcaption></figure> <p>To avoid losing the wing's heritage and history as the highest scoring Army Air Force unit in the Mediterranean Theater in WWII, the impressive combat record in Vietnam and number of significant firsts they produced in the early years of the Air Force, the 31st was chosen to move rather than fade into obscurity. On 1 April 1994, the 31st Fighter Wing inactivated at Homestead and subsequently activated at Aviano Air Base, Italy in place of the 401st Fighter Wing.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st-fw-aviano-activation.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/31st-fw-aviano-activation.jpg/220px-31st-fw-aviano-activation.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/31st-fw-aviano-activation.jpg/330px-31st-fw-aviano-activation.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/31st-fw-aviano-activation.jpg/440px-31st-fw-aviano-activation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="716" data-file-height="475" /></a><figcaption>Activation ceremony for the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano AB, Italy, on 1 April 1994.</figcaption></figure> <p>The 31st received two new squadrons at that time, the 555th and 510th Fighter Squadrons, along with their Block-40 F-16s. The wing immediately become involved with events in <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnia</a>, part of the former communist country of <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, in May 1994 as part of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Deny_Flight" title="Operation Deny Flight">Operation Deny Flight</a>. A year later, a massive search and rescue operation took place to extract USAF captain <a href="/wiki/Scott_O%27Grady" title="Scott O'Grady">Scott O'Grady</a><sup id="cite_ref-RESCUING_SCOTT_O'GRADY:_ALL_FOR_ONE_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RESCUING_SCOTT_O'GRADY:_ALL_FOR_ONE-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the 555th FS from behind enemy lines. An <a href="/wiki/HH-53" class="mw-redirect" title="HH-53">HH-53</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a> picked him up after he evaded capture for six days.<sup id="cite_ref-RESCUING_SCOTT_O'GRADY:_ALL_FOR_ONE_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RESCUING_SCOTT_O'GRADY:_ALL_FOR_ONE-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August and September, <a href="/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force" title="Operation Deliberate Force">Operation Deliberate Force</a> began and the 31st conducted air strikes against Bosnian Serbs conducting ethnic purges among the Muslim population of the country. Peacekeeping operations continued in the Balkans through the end of 2004, when the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> assumed responsibility for the region.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st-fw-balkan-operations.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/31st-fw-balkan-operations.jpg/220px-31st-fw-balkan-operations.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/31st-fw-balkan-operations.jpg/330px-31st-fw-balkan-operations.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/31st-fw-balkan-operations.jpg/440px-31st-fw-balkan-operations.jpg 2x" data-file-width="774" data-file-height="587" /></a><figcaption>Timeline of Balkan Operations, 31st Fighter Wing</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31st-air-expeditionary-wing-USAFE.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/31st-air-expeditionary-wing-USAFE.png/125px-31st-air-expeditionary-wing-USAFE.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/31st-air-expeditionary-wing-USAFE.png/188px-31st-air-expeditionary-wing-USAFE.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/31st-air-expeditionary-wing-USAFE.png/250px-31st-air-expeditionary-wing-USAFE.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="305" /></a><figcaption>Emblem of the 31st Air Expeditionary Wing</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1999, USAFE activated the 31st Air Expeditionary Wing-NOBLE ANVIL (31st AEW) at Aviano for <a href="/wiki/Operation_Allied_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Allied Force">Operation Allied Force</a>, the NATO operation to stop Serbian atrocities in the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Kosovo" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Kosovo">Province of Kosovo</a>. Assigned under a joint task force, the 31st AEW, flew from Aviano and joined NATO allies in a 78-day air campaign against Serbia. From 24 March to 10 June 1999, the 31st AEW, the largest expeditionary wing in Air Force history flew nearly 9,000 combat sorties and accumulated almost 40,000 hours of combat service over the skies of Kosovo, Serbia and the rest of the Balkans in support of NATO operations. The wing accomplished much during Operation Allied Force as the two permanently assigned flying squadrons, the 510th and 555th, flew more than 2,400 combined sorties and more than 10,000 combat hours.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operations_in_Iraq,_Afghanistan_and_Libya"><span id="Operations_in_Iraq.2C_Afghanistan_and_Libya"></span>Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2000, the wing began deployments in support of the Expeditionary Air Force. From March to September 2000, the 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons conducted back-to-back deployments to <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_al-Jaber_Air_Base" title="Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base">Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base</a>, Kuwait, in support of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Southern_Watch" title="Operation Southern Watch">Operation Southern Watch</a>. While at Al Jaber, the squadrons flew more than 400 combat sorties. From June through December 2001, the fighter squadrons deployed combat <a href="/wiki/Search_and_rescue" title="Search and rescue">search and rescue</a> capabilities three times and helped enforce the no fly zone over Iraq. </p><p>From August to December 2002, the 510th Fighter Squadron and <a href="/wiki/603rd_Air_Control_Squadron" title="603rd Air Control Squadron">603rd Air Control Squadron</a> returned to Southwest Asia. The two squadrons supported <a href="/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom" title="Operation Enduring Freedom">Operation Enduring Freedom</a>. Simultaneously, the 555th deployed personnel and aircraft to <a href="/wiki/Decimomannu_Air_Base" title="Decimomannu Air Base">Decimomannu Air Base</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a> while the runway at Aviano closed for repairs. </p><p>The wing's support of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Iraqi Freedom">Operation Iraqi Freedom</a> began in late 2003. Aviano served as the launch point for insertion of airborne forces opening a second front in northern Iraq. During that time, the wing secured, bedded and fed more than 2,300 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">Army</a> and Air Force personnel. The operation, the largest airborne operation since 1989, constituted 62 missions, transporting 2,146 passengers and 2,433.7 tons of cargo. </p><p>Since the beginning of combat operations in Iraq, forces from the wing have been on regular combat rotations into the region. In late 2003, the wing's 603rd Air Control Squadron became the first unit from the wing to deploy to Iraq. They also relocated their entire operation from <a href="/wiki/Baghdad_International_Airport" title="Baghdad International Airport">Baghdad International Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/Balad_Air_Base" title="Balad Air Base">Balad Air Base</a>. Under combat conditions, the squadron transferred $73 million in equipment and more than 100 personnel with 20 convoys. On 10 April 2004, insurgents launched a mortar attack on Balad, killing Airman First Class Antoine Holt<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and injuring two other 603rd members. Airman Holt's death constituted the 31st wing's first combat fatality since the Vietnam War. </p><p>The 31st Fighter Wing continued deploying forces in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Force, with more than one-third of the wing deploying to support operations each year from 2003 to 2007. </p><p>In 2007, the 555th FS deployed to <a href="/wiki/Kunsan_Air_Base" title="Kunsan Air Base">Kunsan Air Base</a>, Republic of Korea. Since arriving at Aviano, the wing has also participated in numerous training exercises with international partners, including training deployments to Latvia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Spain, Slovenia and Poland. </p><p>In March 2011, the 31st played a major role in the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>' response to the crisis in Libya, known as <a href="/wiki/Operation_Odyssey_Dawn" title="Operation Odyssey Dawn">Operation Odyssey Dawn</a>, in enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The wing hosted four flying units and more than 1,350 personnel during the 15-day operation, 17–31 March. It worked around the clock to launch 2,250 flying operations out of Aviano. As the operation came to an end on 31 March, so began <a href="/wiki/Operation_Unified_Protector" title="Operation Unified Protector">Operation Unified Protector</a>, with NATO taking the lead until the operation's conclusion 31 Oct of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet_19-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31st_Fighter_Wing_Heritage_Pamphlet-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2015, the United States and Turkey reached agreement on Turkish support for actions against the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a>. As a result of this agreement, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Central_Command" title="United States Central Command">United States Central Command</a> announced in August that six Fighting Falcons of the 31st had deployed to <a href="/wiki/Incirlik_Air_Base" title="Incirlik Air Base">Incirlik Air Base</a> to begin operations against the Islamic State.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lineage">Lineage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Lineage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Designated as the <b>31st Fighter Wing</b> on 6 November 1947</li></ul> <dl><dd>Organized on 20 November 1947</dd> <dd>Discontinued on 25 August 1948</dd> <dd>Activated on 23 August 1948<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Fighter-Bomber Wing</b> on 20 January 1950</dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Fighter-Escort Wing</b> on 16 July 1950</dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Strategic Fighter Wing</b> on 20 January 1953</dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Fighter-Bomber Wing</b> on 1 April 1957</dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Tactical Fighter Wing</b> on 1 July 1958</dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Tactical Training Wing</b> on 30 March 1981</dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Tactical Fighter Wing</b> on 1 October 1985</dd> <dd>Redesignated <b>31st Fighter Wing</b> on 1 October 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-Lineage_and_Honors_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lineage_and_Honors-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assignments">Assignments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Assignments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1216972533"><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break" style="width: 50%;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ninth_Air_Force" title="Ninth Air Force">Ninth Air Force</a>, 20 November 1947</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Air_Force" title="Fourteenth Air Force">Fourteenth Air Force</a>, 1 February 1949</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Air_Force" title="Second Air Force">Second Air Force</a>, 1 July 1950</li> <li>40th Air Division, 14 March 1951 (attached to <a href="/wiki/39th_Air_Division" title="39th Air Division">39th Air Division</a> 10 July – 11 October 1952 and 10 November 1953 – 12 February 1954)</li> <li>Ninth Air Force, 1 April 1957</li> <li><a href="/wiki/831st_Air_Division" title="831st Air Division">831st Air Division</a>, 15 March 1959</li> <li>Ninth Air Force, 1 June 1962 (attached to: Air Force Atlantic Command, 24 October – 9 November 1962 and 1 Air Division Provisional, 10 November-c. 30 November 1962)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break" style="width: 50%;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/836th_Air_Division" title="836th Air Division">836th Air Division</a>, 1 October 1964</li> <li><a href="/wiki/834th_Air_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="834th Air Division">834th Air Division</a>, 1 January 1965</li> <li>836th Air Division, 1 August 1966 (attached to <a href="/wiki/Seventh_Air_Force" title="Seventh Air Force">Seventh Air Force</a> after 16 December 1966)</li> <li>Seventh Air Force, 25 December 1966</li> <li>836th Air Division, 15 October 1970</li> <li>Ninth Air Force, 30 June 1971</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixteenth_Air_Force" title="Sixteenth Air Force">Sixteenth Air Force</a>, 1 April 1994 – 1 December 2006</li> <li>Third Air Force, 1 December 2006–Present</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stations">Stations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Turner Field (later Turner Air Force Base), Georgia, 20 November 1947</li> <li>George Air Force Base, California, 15 March 1959</li> <li>Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, 31 May 1962 – 6 December 1966</li> <li>Tuy Hoa Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, 16 December 1966 – 15 October 1970</li> <li>Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, 15 October 1970 – 1 April 1994</li> <li>Aviano Air Base, Italy, 1 April 1994–present<sup id="cite_ref-Lineage_and_Honors_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lineage_and_Honors-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unit_emblems">Unit emblems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Unit emblems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="toccolours collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%; background:inherit"> <tbody><tr> <th>Gallery </th></tr> <tr> <td><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31st_Fighter_Wing.png" class="mw-file-description" title="31 FW"><img alt="31 FW" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/31st_Fighter_Wing.png/120px-31st_Fighter_Wing.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/31st_Fighter_Wing.png/180px-31st_Fighter_Wing.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/31st_Fighter_Wing.png/240px-31st_Fighter_Wing.png 2x" data-file-width="1821" data-file-height="1797" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 FW</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Comptroller_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 CPTS"><img alt="31 CPTS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/31_Comptroller_Squadron.jpg/120px-31_Comptroller_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/31_Comptroller_Squadron.jpg/180px-31_Comptroller_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/31_Comptroller_Squadron.jpg/240px-31_Comptroller_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 CPTS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Operations_Group_gaggle.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 OG"><img alt="31 OG" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/31_Operations_Group_gaggle.jpg/120px-31_Operations_Group_gaggle.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/31_Operations_Group_gaggle.jpg/180px-31_Operations_Group_gaggle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/31_Operations_Group_gaggle.jpg/240px-31_Operations_Group_gaggle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 OG</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:510_Fighter_Sq_Emblem.png" class="mw-file-description" title="510 FS"><img alt="510 FS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/510_Fighter_Sq_Emblem.png/107px-510_Fighter_Sq_Emblem.png" decoding="async" width="107" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/510_Fighter_Sq_Emblem.png/160px-510_Fighter_Sq_Emblem.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/510_Fighter_Sq_Emblem.png/213px-510_Fighter_Sq_Emblem.png 2x" data-file-width="1497" data-file-height="1683" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">510 FS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:555_Fighter_Sq.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="555 FS"><img alt="555 FS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/555_Fighter_Sq.jpg/100px-555_Fighter_Sq.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/555_Fighter_Sq.jpg/151px-555_Fighter_Sq.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/555_Fighter_Sq.jpg/201px-555_Fighter_Sq.jpg 2x" data-file-width="502" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">555 FS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:603_Air_Control_Sq.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="603 ACS"><img alt="603 ACS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/603_Air_Control_Sq.jpg/106px-603_Air_Control_Sq.jpg" decoding="async" width="106" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/603_Air_Control_Sq.jpg/159px-603_Air_Control_Sq.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/603_Air_Control_Sq.jpg/212px-603_Air_Control_Sq.jpg 2x" data-file-width="529" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">603 ACS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Operations_SupportSquadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 OSS"><img alt="31 OSS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/31_Operations_SupportSquadron.jpg/101px-31_Operations_SupportSquadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="101" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/31_Operations_SupportSquadron.jpg/151px-31_Operations_SupportSquadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/31_Operations_SupportSquadron.jpg/201px-31_Operations_SupportSquadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="503" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 OSS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Maintenance_Gp.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 MXG"><img alt="31 MXG" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/31_Maintenance_Gp.jpg/115px-31_Maintenance_Gp.jpg" decoding="async" width="115" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/31_Maintenance_Gp.jpg/172px-31_Maintenance_Gp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/31_Maintenance_Gp.jpg/230px-31_Maintenance_Gp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="575" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 MXG</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Aircraft_Maintenance_Sq.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 AMXS"><img alt="31 AMXS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/31_Aircraft_Maintenance_Sq.jpg/117px-31_Aircraft_Maintenance_Sq.jpg" decoding="async" width="117" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/31_Aircraft_Maintenance_Sq.jpg/175px-31_Aircraft_Maintenance_Sq.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/31_Aircraft_Maintenance_Sq.jpg/234px-31_Aircraft_Maintenance_Sq.jpg 2x" data-file-width="584" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 AMXS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Maintenance_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 MXS"><img alt="31 MXS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/31_Maintenance_Squadron.jpg/101px-31_Maintenance_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="101" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/31_Maintenance_Squadron.jpg/152px-31_Maintenance_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/31_Maintenance_Squadron.jpg/203px-31_Maintenance_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="507" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 MXS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_MUNS.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 MUNS"><img alt="31 MUNS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/31_MUNS.jpg/105px-31_MUNS.jpg" decoding="async" width="105" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/31_MUNS.jpg/157px-31_MUNS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/31_MUNS.jpg/210px-31_MUNS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="819" data-file-height="937" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 MUNS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Maintenance_Operations_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 MOS"><img alt="31 MOS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/31_Maintenance_Operations_Squadron.jpg/120px-31_Maintenance_Operations_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/31_Maintenance_Operations_Squadron.jpg/180px-31_Maintenance_Operations_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/31_Maintenance_Operations_Squadron.jpg/240px-31_Maintenance_Operations_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="504" data-file-height="504" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 MOS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Mission_Support_Gp.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 MSG"><img alt="31 MSG" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/31_Mission_Support_Gp.jpg/115px-31_Mission_Support_Gp.jpg" decoding="async" width="115" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/31_Mission_Support_Gp.jpg/172px-31_Mission_Support_Gp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/31_Mission_Support_Gp.jpg/230px-31_Mission_Support_Gp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="575" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 MSG</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Civil_Engineer_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 CES"><img alt="31 CES" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/31_Civil_Engineer_Squadron.jpg/106px-31_Civil_Engineer_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="106" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/31_Civil_Engineer_Squadron.jpg/159px-31_Civil_Engineer_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/31_Civil_Engineer_Squadron.jpg/212px-31_Civil_Engineer_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="529" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 CES</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Communications_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 CS"><img alt="31 CS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/31_Communications_Squadron.jpg/106px-31_Communications_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="106" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/31_Communications_Squadron.jpg/159px-31_Communications_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/31_Communications_Squadron.jpg/212px-31_Communications_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="529" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 CS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Logistics_Readiness_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 LRS"><img alt="31 LRS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/31_Logistics_Readiness_Squadron.jpg/118px-31_Logistics_Readiness_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="118" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/31_Logistics_Readiness_Squadron.jpg/178px-31_Logistics_Readiness_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/31_Logistics_Readiness_Squadron.jpg/237px-31_Logistics_Readiness_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="476" data-file-height="482" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 LRS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Mission_Support_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 MSS"><img alt="31 MSS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/31_Mission_Support_Squadron.jpg/120px-31_Mission_Support_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/31_Mission_Support_Squadron.jpg/180px-31_Mission_Support_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/31_Mission_Support_Squadron.jpg/240px-31_Mission_Support_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="504" data-file-height="504" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 MSS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Security_Forces_Squadron.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 SFS"><img alt="31 SFS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/31_Security_Forces_Squadron.jpg/120px-31_Security_Forces_Squadron.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/31_Security_Forces_Squadron.jpg/180px-31_Security_Forces_Squadron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/31_Security_Forces_Squadron.jpg/240px-31_Security_Forces_Squadron.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 SFS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Serviices_Sq.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 SVS"><img alt="31 SVS" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/31_Serviices_Sq.jpg/100px-31_Serviices_Sq.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/31_Serviices_Sq.jpg/151px-31_Serviices_Sq.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/31_Serviices_Sq.jpg/201px-31_Serviices_Sq.jpg 2x" data-file-width="502" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 SVS</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:31_Medical_Gp.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="31 MDG"><img alt="31 MDG" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/31_Medical_Gp.jpg/115px-31_Medical_Gp.jpg" decoding="async" width="115" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/31_Medical_Gp.jpg/173px-31_Medical_Gp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/31_Medical_Gp.jpg/230px-31_Medical_Gp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">31 MDG</div> </li> </ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="clear:right;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Vol. 1, Post-World War II Fighters 1945–1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-912799-19-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-912799-19-3"><bdi>978-0-912799-19-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+US+Air+Force+Aircraft+and+Missile+Systems&rft.place=Washington%2C+DC&rft.pub=Office+of+Air+Force+History&rft.date=1978&rft.isbn=978-0-912799-19-3&rft.aulast=Knaack&rft.aufirst=Marcelle+Size&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpostworldwariifi0000knaa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A31st+Fighter+Wing" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRavenstein1984" class="citation book cs1">Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/airforcecombatwi0000rave"><i>Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947–1977</i></a></span>. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-912799-12-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-912799-12-9"><bdi>0-912799-12-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Air+Force+Combat+Wings%2C+Lineage+%26+Honors+Histories+1947%E2%80%931977&rft.place=Washington%2C+DC&rft.pub=Office+of+Air+Force+History&rft.date=1984&rft.isbn=0-912799-12-9&rft.aulast=Ravenstein&rft.aufirst=Charles+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fairforcecombatwi0000rave&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A31st+Fighter+Wing" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Further reading</dt></dl> <ul><li>Endicott, Judy G. <i>Active Air Force Wings as of 1 October 1995</i>; <i>USAF Active Flying, Space, and Missile Squadrons as of 1 October 1995</i>. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1999. CD-ROM.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFletcher1993" class="citation book cs1">Fletcher, Harry R (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://media.defense.gov/2010/May/25/2001330286/-1/-1/0/AFD-100525-060.pdf"><i>Air Force Bases, Vol. II, Air Bases Outside the United States of America</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Washington, DC: Center for Air Force History. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-912799-53-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-912799-53-6"><bdi>0-912799-53-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Air+Force+Bases%2C+Vol.+II%2C+Air+Bases+Outside+the+United+States+of+America&rft.place=Washington%2C+DC&rft.pub=Center+for+Air+Force+History&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-912799-53-6&rft.aulast=Fletcher&rft.aufirst=Harry+R&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.defense.gov%2F2010%2FMay%2F25%2F2001330286%2F-1%2F-1%2F0%2FAFD-100525-060.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A31st+Fighter+Wing" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartin1994" class="citation book cs1">Martin, Patrick (1994). <i>Tail Code The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings</i>. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Limited. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-88740-513-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-88740-513-6"><bdi>978-0-88740-513-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tail+Code+The+Complete+History+of+USAF+Tactical+Aircraft+Tail+Code+Markings&rft.place=Atglen%2C+PA&rft.pub=Schiffer+Publishing+Limited&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=978-0-88740-513-6&rft.aulast=Martin&rft.aufirst=Patrick&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A31st+Fighter+Wing" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMueller1989" class="citation book cs1">Mueller, Robert (1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf"><i>Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-912799-53-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-912799-53-6"><bdi>0-912799-53-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Air+Force+Bases%2C+Vol.+I%2C+Active+Air+Force+Bases+Within+the+United+States+of+America+on+17+September+1982&rft.place=Washington%2C+DC&rft.pub=Office+of+Air+Force+History&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-912799-53-6&rft.aulast=Mueller&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.defense.gov%2F2010%2FSep%2F21%2F2001330255%2F-1%2F-1%2F0%2FAFD-100921-026.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A31st+Fighter+Wing" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRogers2005" class="citation book cs1">Rogers, Brian (2005). <i>United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978</i>. Ian Allan Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85780-197-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85780-197-2"><bdi>978-1-85780-197-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=United+States+Air+Force+Unit+Designations+Since+1978&rft.pub=Ian+Allan+Publishing&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-1-85780-197-2&rft.aulast=Rogers&rft.aufirst=Brian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A31st+Fighter+Wing" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Fighter_Wing&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Air_Force" title="United States Department of the Air Force">Department of the Air Force</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Air_Force" title="United States Secretary of the Air Force">Secretary of the Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Under_Secretary_of_the_Air_Force" title="United States Under Secretary of the Air Force">Under Secretary of the Air Force</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Staff_(United_States)" title="Air Staff (United States)">Air Staff</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force">Chief of Staff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice_Chief_of_Staff_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force">Vice Chief of Staff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Director_of_Staff_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="Director of Staff of the United States Air 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Armed_Services_Subcommittee_on_Airland" title="United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland">Senate Subcommittee on Airland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Armed_Services_Subcommittee_on_Strategic_Forces" title="United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces">Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Military_service_mark_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg/80px-Military_service_mark_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" class="mw-file-element" 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Reserve_Command" title="Air Force Reserve Command">Reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_National_Guard" title="Air National Guard">Air National Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_Field_Operating_Agencies" title="List of United States Air Force Field Operating Agencies">Field Operating Agencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_installations" title="List of United States Air Force installations">Installations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Direct Reporting Units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_District_of_Washington" title="Air Force District of Washington">District of Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Operational_Test_and_Evaluation_Center" title="Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center">Operational Test and Evaluation Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Academy" title="United States Air Force Academy">USAF Academy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_major_commands_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="List of major commands of the United States Air Force">Major commands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_Combat_Command" title="Air Combat Command">ACC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Education_and_Training_Command" title="Air Education and Training Command">AETC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Global_Strike_Command" title="Air Force Global Strike Command">AFGSC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Materiel_Command" title="Air Force Materiel Command">AFMC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Reserve_Command" title="Air Force Reserve Command">AFRC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Special_Operations_Command" title="Air Force Special Operations Command">AFSOC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Mobility_Command" title="Air Mobility Command">AMC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Air_Forces" title="Pacific Air Forces">PACAF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Forces_in_Europe_%E2%80%93_Air_Forces_Africa" title="United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa">USAFE–AFAFRICA</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Numbered_Air_Force" title="Numbered Air Force">Numbered Air Forces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Air_Force" title="First Air Force">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Air_Force" title="Second Air Force">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Air_Force" title="Third Air Force">Third</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Air_Force" title="Fourth Air Force">Fourth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Air_Force" title="Fifth Air Force">Fifth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seventh_Air_Force" title="Seventh Air Force">Seventh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eighth_Air_Force" title="Eighth Air Force">Eighth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninth_Air_Force" title="Ninth Air Force">Ninth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenth_Air_Force" title="Tenth Air Force">Tenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleventh_Air_Force" title="Eleventh Air Force">Eleventh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Air_Force" title="Twelfth Air Force">Twelfth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirteenth_Expeditionary_Air_Force" title="Thirteenth Expeditionary Air Force">Thirteenth Expeditionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifteenth_Air_Force" title="Fifteenth Air Force">Fifteenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixteenth_Air_Force" title="Sixteenth Air Force">Sixteenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eighteenth_Air_Force" title="Eighteenth Air Force">Eighteenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nineteenth_Air_Force" title="Nineteenth Air Force">Nineteenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twentieth_Air_Force" title="Twentieth Air Force">Twentieth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twenty-Second_Air_Force" title="Twenty-Second Air Force">Twenty-Second</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_wings_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="List of wings of the United States Air Force">Wings</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_groups_and_wings_of_the_United_States_Air_National_Guard" title="List of groups and wings of the United States Air National Guard">ANG</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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Patrol">Civil Air Patrol</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Personnel and<br /> training</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_personnel" title="List of United States Air Force personnel">Personnel</a></li> <li>Rank <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_officer_rank_insignia" title="United States Air Force officer rank insignia">officers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Academy_Cadet_Insignia" title="United States Air Force Academy Cadet Insignia">cadets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_enlisted_rank_insignia" title="United States Air Force enlisted rank insignia">enlisted</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_Specialty_Code" title="Air Force Specialty 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href="/wiki/20th_Air_Division" title="20th Air Division">20th (ADTAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Air_Division" title="21st Air Division">21st (ADTAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/23rd_Air_Division_(United_States)" title="23rd Air Division (United States)">23d (ADTAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24th_Air_Division" title="24th Air Division">24th (ADTAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Air_Division" title="25th Air Division">25th (ADTAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_Air_Division" title="26th Air Division">26th (ADTAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Air_Division" title="28th Air Division">28th (ADTAC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/831st_Air_Division" title="831st Air Division">831st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/832d_Air_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="832d Air Division">832d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/833d_Air_Division" title="833d Air Division">833d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/834th_Airlift_Division" title="834th Airlift Division">834th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/835th_Air_Division" title="835th Air Division">835th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/836th_Air_Division" title="836th Air Division">836th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/837th_Air_Division" title="837th Air Division">837th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/838th_Air_Division" title="838th Air Division">838th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/839th_Air_Division" title="839th Air Division">839th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/840th_Air_Division" title="840th Air Division">840th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Named units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_Forces_Panama" title="Air Forces Panama">Air Forces Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Keflavik" title="Naval Air Station Keflavik">Air Forces Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Defense_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Defense Command">Air Defense, Tactical Air Command</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Major_bases_and_units_of_Tactical_Air_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Major bases and units of Tactical Air Command">Wings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">TFW</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Fighter_Wing" title="1st Fighter Wing">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Fighter_Wing" title="4th Fighter Wing">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Flying_Training_Wing" title="12th Flying Training Wing">12th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Airlift_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="15th Airlift Wing">15th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20th_Fighter_Wing" title="20th Fighter Wing">20th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/23d_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="23d Wing">23d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_Special_Operations_Wing" title="27th Special Operations Wing">27th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/32d_Air_Operations_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="32d Air Operations Group">32d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/33d_Fighter_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="33d Fighter Wing">33d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/37th_Training_Wing" title="37th Training Wing">37th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/50th_Space_Wing" title="50th Space Wing">50th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/56th_Fighter_Wing" title="56th Fighter Wing">56th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/312th_Fighter_Wing" title="312th Fighter Wing">312th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/323d_Flying_Training_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="323d Flying Training Wing">323d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/347th_Rescue_Wing" title="347th Rescue Wing">347th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/354th_Fighter_Wing" title="354th Fighter Wing">354th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/355th_Wing" title="355th Wing">355th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Special_Operations_Wing" title="1st Special Operations Wing">1st SOW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_Wing" title="57th Wing">57th FWW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/63d_Airlift_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="63d Airlift Wing">63d TAW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/64th_Airlift_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="64th Airlift Wing">64th TAW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/67th_Network_Warfare_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="67th Network Warfare Wing">67th TRW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/75th_Air_Base_Wing" title="75th Air Base Wing">75th TRW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/85th_Group" title="85th Group">85th TFTW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/317th_Airlift_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="317th Airlift Wing">317th TAW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/363d_Flying_Training_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="363d Flying Training Group">363d TRW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/405th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="405th Air Expeditionary Wing">405th TFTW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/461st_Tactical_Bombardment_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="461st Tactical Bombardment Wing">461st TBW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4505th_Air_Refueling_Wing" title="4505th Air Refueling Wing">4505th ARW</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Major_bases_and_units_of_Tactical_Air_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Major bases and units of Tactical Air Command">Former<br />bases</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Active<br />(MAJCOM)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Altus_Air_Force_Base" title="Altus Air Force Base">Altus</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooks_City-Base" title="Brooks City-Base">Brooks</a> (AFMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannon_Air_Force_Base" title="Cannon Air Force Base">Cannon</a> (AFSOC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charleston_Air_Force_Base" title="Charleston Air Force Base">Charleston</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creech_Air_Force_Base" title="Creech Air Force Base">Creech</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Monthan_Air_Force_Base" title="Davis–Monthan Air Force Base">Davis–Monthan (ACC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Air_Force_Base" title="Dover Air Force Base">Dover</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyess_Air_Force_Base" title="Dyess Air Force Base">Dyess</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eglin_Air_Force_Base" title="Eglin Air Force Base">Eglin</a> (AFMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill_Air_Force_Base" title="Hill Air Force Base">Hill</a> (AMFC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holloman_Air_Force_Base" title="Holloman Air Force Base">Holloman</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurlburt_Field" title="Hurlburt Field">Hurlburt Field</a> (AFSOC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langley_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Langley Field">Langley</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Rock_Air_Force_Base" title="Little Rock Air Force Base">Little Rock</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luke_Air_Force_Base" title="Luke Air Force Base">Luke</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacDill_Air_Force_Base" title="MacDill Air Force Base">MacDill</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/McChord_Field" title="McChord Field">McChord</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/McConnell_Air_Force_Base" title="McConnell Air Force Base">McConnell</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moody_Air_Force_Base" title="Moody Air Force Base">Moody</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Home_Air_Force_Base" title="Mountain Home Air Force Base">Mountain Home</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base" title="Nellis Air Force Base">Nellis</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Field" title="Pope Field">Pope</a> (AMC) <a href="/wiki/Seymour_Johnson_Air_Force_Base" title="Seymour Johnson Air Force Base">Seymour Johnson</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaw_Air_Force_Base" title="Shaw Air Force Base">Shaw</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonopah_Test_Range_Airport" title="Tonopah Test Range Airport">Tonopah</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyndall_Air_Force_Base" title="Tyndall Air Force Base">Tyndall</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whiteman_Air_Force_Base" title="Whiteman Air Force Base">Whiteman</a> (ACC)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Inactive</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bergstrom_Air_Force_Base" title="Bergstrom Air Force Base">Bergstrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eaker_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Eaker Air Force Base">Blythville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donaldson_Air_Force_Base" title="Donaldson Air Force Base">Donaldson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_Air_Force_Base" title="England Air Force Base">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forbes_Field_Air_National_Guard_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Forbes Field Air National Guard Base">Forbes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Air_Force_Base" title="George Air Force Base">George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Air_Force_Base" title="Howard Air Force Base">Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grenier_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Grenier Air Force Base">Grenier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrtle_Beach_Air_Force_Base" title="Myrtle Beach Air Force Base">Myrtle Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando Air Force Base">Orlando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sewart_Air_Force_Base" title="Sewart Air Force Base">Sewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turner_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Turner Air Force Base">Turner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williams_Air_Force_Base" title="Williams Air Force Base">Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Inactive,<br />but with a military presence</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 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style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Contiguous_United_States#CONUS_and_OCONUS" title="Contiguous United States">CONUS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Altus_Air_Force_Base" title="Altus Air Force Base">Altus</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andersen_Air_Force_Base" title="Andersen Air Force Base">Andersen</a> (PACAF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrews_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrews Field">Andrews</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barksdale_Air_Force_Base" title="Barksdale Air Force Base">Barksdale</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beale_Air_Force_Base" title="Beale Air Force Base">Beale</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolling_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolling Field">Bolling</a> (AFDW)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannon_Air_Force_Base" title="Cannon Air Force Base">Cannon</a> (AFSOC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod_Space_Force_Station" title="Cape Cod Space Force Station">Cape Cod</a> (USSF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbus_Air_Force_Base" title="Columbus Air Force Base">Columbus</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Monthan_Air_Force_Base" title="Davis–Monthan Air Force Base">Davis-Monthan</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyess_Air_Force_Base" title="Dyess Air Force Base">Dyess</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eielson_Air_Force_Base" title="Eielson Air Force Base">Eielson</a> (PACAF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base" title="Ellsworth Air Force Base">Ellsworth</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eglin_Air_Force_Base" title="Eglin Air Force Base">Eglin</a> (AFMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_E._Warren_Air_Force_Base" title="Francis E. Warren Air Force Base">F. E. Warren</a> (AFGSC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairchild_Air_Force_Base" title="Fairchild Air Force Base">Fairchild</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forbes_Field_Air_National_Guard_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Forbes Field Air National Guard Base">Forbes</a> (ANG)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Forks_Air_Force_Base" title="Grand Forks Air Force Base">Grand Forks</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grissom_Air_Reserve_Base" title="Grissom Air Reserve Base">Grissom</a> (AFRC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homestead_Air_Reserve_Base" title="Homestead Air Reserve Base">Homestead</a> (AFRC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Air_National_Guard_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln Air National Guard Base">Lincoln</a> (ANG)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Rock_Air_Force_Base" title="Little Rock Air Force Base">Little Rock</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacDill_Air_Force_Base" title="MacDill Air Force Base">MacDill</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malmstrom_Air_Force_Base" title="Malmstrom Air Force Base">Malmstrom</a> (AFGSC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_Air_Reserve_Base" title="March Air Reserve Base">March</a> (AFRC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/McChord_Field" title="McChord Field">McChord</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/McConnell_Air_Force_Base" title="McConnell Air Force Base">McConnell</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/McGuire_Air_Force_Base" title="McGuire Air Force Base">McGuire</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minot_Air_Force_Base" title="Minot Air Force Base">Minot</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Home_Air_Force_Base" title="Mountain Home Air Force Base">Mountain Home</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base" title="Nellis Air Force Base">Nellis</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Offutt_Air_Force_Base" title="Offutt Air Force Base">Offutt</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Space_Force_Base" title="Patrick Space Force Base">Patrick</a> (USSF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pease_Air_National_Guard_Base" title="Pease Air National Guard Base">Pease</a> (ANG)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rickenbacker_Air_National_Guard_Base" title="Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base">Rickenbacker</a> (ANG)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robins_Air_Force_Base" title="Robins Air Force Base">Robins</a> (AFMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seymour_Johnson_Air_Force_Base" title="Seymour Johnson Air Force Base">Seymour Johnson</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheppard_Air_Force_Base" title="Sheppard Air Force Base">Sheppard</a> (AETC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selfridge_Air_National_Guard_Base" title="Selfridge Air National Guard Base">Selfridge</a> (ANG)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travis_Air_Force_Base" title="Travis Air Force Base">Travis</a> (AMC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vandenberg_Space_Force_Base" title="Vandenberg Space Force Base">Vandenberg</a> (USSF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westover_Air_Reserve_Base" title="Westover Air Reserve Base">Westover</a> (AFRC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whiteman_Air_Force_Base" title="Whiteman Air Force Base">Whiteman</a> (ACC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base" title="Wright-Patterson Air Force Base">Wright-Patterson</a> (AFMC)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">overseas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Alconbury" title="RAF Alconbury">RAF Alconbury</a> (USAFE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Support_Facility_Diego_Garcia" title="Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia">Diego Garcia</a> (USN)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kadena_Air_Base" title="Kadena Air Base">Kadena</a> (PACAF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Fairford" title="RAF Fairford">RAF Fairford</a> (USAFE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Lakenheath" title="RAF Lakenheath">RAF Lakenheath</a> (USAFE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Mildenhall" title="RAF Mildenhall">RAF Mildenhall</a> (USAFE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thule_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Thule Air Base">Thule</a> (USSF)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">former /<br />inactive</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Contiguous_United_States#CONUS_and_OCONUS" title="Contiguous United States">CONUS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amarillo_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Amarillo Air Force Base">Amarillo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bergstrom_Air_Force_Base" title="Bergstrom Air Force Base">Bergstrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield" title="Biggs Army Airfield">Biggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calumet_Air_Force_Station" title="Calumet Air Force Station">Calumet Air Force Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Joint_Reserve_Base_Fort_Worth" title="Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth">Carswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle_Air_Force_Base" title="Castle Air Force Base">Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chennault_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Chennault Air Force Base">Chennault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton-Sherman_Air_Force_Base" title="Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base">Clinton-Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangor_Air_National_Guard_Base" title="Bangor Air National Guard Base">Dow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eaker_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Eaker Air Force Base">Eaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Air_Force_Base" title="Glasgow Air Force Base">Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Island_Army_Airfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Island Army Airfield">Grand Island</a> (AAF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Griffiss_Air_Force_Base" title="Griffiss Air Force Base">Griffiss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunter_Army_Airfield" title="Hunter Army Airfield">Hunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._I._Sawyer_Air_Force_Base" title="K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base">K. I. Sawyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearney_Air_Force_Base" title="Kearney Air Force Base">Kearney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kincheloe_Air_Force_Base" title="Kincheloe Air Force Base">Kincheloe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larson_Air_Force_Base" title="Larson Air Force Base">Larson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loring_Air_Force_Base" title="Loring Air Force Base">Loring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowry_Air_Force_Base" title="Lowry Air Force Base">Lowry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mather_Air_Force_Base" title="Mather Air Force Base">Mather</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCoy_Air_Force_Base" title="McCoy Air Force Base">McCoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plattsburgh_Air_Force_Base" title="Plattsburgh Air Force Base">Plattsburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presque_Isle_Air_Force_Base" title="Presque Isle Air Force Base">Presque Isle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramey_Air_Force_Base" title="Ramey Air Force Base">Ramey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R.I._Bong_Air_Force_Base" title="R.I. Bong Air Force Base">R.I. Bong</a> (unbuilt)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schilling_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Schilling Air Force Base">Schilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stead_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Stead Air Force Base">Stead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turner_Air_Force_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Turner Air Force Base">Turner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walker_Air_Force_Base" title="Walker Air Force Base">Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wurtsmith_Air_Force_Base" title="Wurtsmith Air Force Base">Wurtsmith</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">overseas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom">Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Bassingbourn" title="RAF Bassingbourn">RAF Bassingbourn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Guerir_Air_Base" title="Ben Guerir Air Base">Ben Guerir</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Boulhaut_Air_Base&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boulhaut Air Base (page does not exist)">Boulhaut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Brize_Norton" title="RAF Brize Norton">RAF Brize Norton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruntingthorpe_Aerodrome" title="Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome">RAF Bruntingthorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Burtonwood" title="RAF Burtonwood">RAF Burtonwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Chelveston" title="RAF Chelveston">RAF Chelveston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Greenham_Common" title="RAF Greenham Common">RAF Greenham Common</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CFB_Goose_Bay" title="CFB Goose Bay">Goose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Harmon_Air_Force_Base" title="Ernest Harmon Air Force Base">Ernest Harmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_High_Wycombe" title="RAF High Wycombe">RAF High Wycombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Upper_Heyford" title="RAF Upper Heyford">RAF Upper Heyford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrej%C3%B3n_Air_Base" title="Torrejón Air Base">Torrejón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Manston" title="RAF Manston">RAF Manston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mor%C3%B3n_Air_Base" title="Morón Air Base">Morón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nouasseur_Air_Base" title="Nouasseur Air Base">Nouasseur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabat%E2%80%93Sal%C3%A9_Airport" title="Rabat–Salé Airport">Rabat-Salé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Scampton" title="RAF Scampton">RAF Scampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sculthorpe_Training_Area" title="Sculthorpe Training Area">RAF Sculthorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidi_Slimane_Air_Base" title="Sidi Slimane Air Base">Sidi Slimane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RAF_South_Ruislip" title="RAF South Ruislip">RAF South Ruislip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U-Tapao_Royal_Thai_Navy_Airfield" title="U-Tapao Royal 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Air_Force" title="Second Air Force">Second Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eighth_Air_Force" title="Eighth Air Force">Eighth Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Expeditionary_Mobility_Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force">Fifteenth Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_Air_Expeditionary_Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Air Expeditionary Task Force">Sixteenth Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twentieth_Air_Force" title="Twentieth Air Force">Twentieth Air Force</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Divisions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Air</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/3d_Air_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="3d Air Division">3d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Air_Division" title="4th Air Division">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Air_Division" title="5th Air Division">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6th_Air_Division" title="6th Air Division">6th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Air_Division" title="7th Air Division">7th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Air_Division" title="12th Air Division">12th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Air_Division" title="14th Air Division">14th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17th_Air_Division" title="17th Air Division">17th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19th_Air_Division" title="19th Air Division">19th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Air_Division" title="21st Air Division">21st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/36th_Air_Division" title="36th Air Division">36th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_Air_Division" title="40th Air Division">40th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/42d_Air_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="42d Air Division">42d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/45th_Air_Division" title="45th Air Division">45th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/47th_Air_Division" title="47th Air Division">47th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_Air_Division" title="57th Air Division">57th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Air_Refueling_Wing" title="100th Air Refueling Wing">100th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/311th_Air_Division" title="311th Air Division">311th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/801st_Air_Division" title="801st Air Division">801st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/802d_Air_Division" title="802d Air Division">802d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/806th_Air_Division" title="806th Air Division">806th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/817th_Air_Division" title="817th Air Division">817th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/822d_Air_Division" title="822d Air Division">822d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/823d_Air_Division" title="823d Air Division">823d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4310th_Air_Division" title="4310th Air Division">4310th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Strategic<br />aerospace</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="1st Strategic Aerospace Division">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/18th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="18th Strategic Aerospace Division">18th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22d_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="22d Strategic Aerospace Division">22d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/810th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="810th Strategic Aerospace Division">810th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/813th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="813th Strategic Aerospace Division">813th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/816th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="816th Strategic Aerospace Division">816th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/818th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="818th Strategic Aerospace Division">818th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/819th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="819th Strategic Aerospace Division">819th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/820th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="820th Strategic Aerospace Division">820th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/821st_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="821st Strategic Aerospace Division">821st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/825th_Strategic_Aerospace_Division" title="825th Strategic Aerospace Division">825th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Strategic missile</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/13th_Strategic_Missile_Division" title="13th Strategic Missile Division">13th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command_wings" title="Strategic Air Command wings">Wings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_USAF_Bomb_Wings_and_Wings_assigned_to_Strategic_Air_Command" title="List of USAF Bomb Wings and Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command">Bombardment</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2d_Bomb_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="2d Bomb Wing">2d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Bomb_Wing" title="5th Bomb Wing">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Bomb_Wing" title="7th Bomb Wing">7th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_Reconnaissance_Wing" title="9th Reconnaissance Wing">9th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17th_Training_Wing" title="17th Training Wing">17th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19th_Airlift_Wing" title="19th Airlift Wing">19th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22d_Air_Refueling_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="22d Air Refueling Wing">22d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Bomb_Wing" title="28th Bomb Wing">28th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_Bombardment_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="39th Bombardment Wing">39th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_Bombardment_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="40th Bombardment Wing">40th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/42d_Air_Base_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="42d Air Base Wing">42d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/43d_Airlift_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="43d Airlift Wing">43d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/53d_Electronic_Warfare_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="53d Electronic Warfare Group">68th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/70th_Intelligence,_Surveillance_and_Reconnaissance_Wing" title="70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing">70th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72d_Air_Base_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="72d Air Base Wing">72d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/92d_Air_Refueling_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="92d Air Refueling Wing">92d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/93d_Air_Ground_Operations_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="93d Air Ground Operations Wing">93d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Air_Base_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="96th Air Base Wing">96th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/97th_Air_Mobility_Wing" title="97th Air Mobility Wing">97th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/99th_Air_Base_Wing" title="99th Air Base Wing">99th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/303d_Aeronautical_Systems_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="303d Aeronautical Systems Wing">303d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/319th_Air_Refueling_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="319th Air Refueling Wing">319th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/320th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="320th Air Expeditionary Wing">320th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/340th_Flying_Training_Group" title="340th Flying Training Group">340th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/379th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="379th Air Expeditionary Wing">379th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/380th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="380th Air Expeditionary Wing">380th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/397th_Bombardment_Wing" title="397th Bombardment Wing">397th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/410th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="410th Air Expeditionary Wing">410th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/416th_Bombardment_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="416th Bombardment Wing">416th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/449th_Air_Expeditionary_Group" title="449th Air Expeditionary Group">449th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/450th_Bombardment_Wing" title="450th Bombardment Wing">450th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/454th_Bombardment_Wing" title="454th Bombardment Wing">454th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/456th_Bombardment_Wing" title="456th Bombardment Wing">456th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/461st_Bombardment_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="461st Bombardment Wing">461st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/465th_Bombardment_Wing" title="465th Bombardment Wing">465th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/484th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="484th Air Expeditionary Wing">484th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/494th_Bombardment_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="494th Bombardment Wing">494th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/509th_Bomb_Wing" title="509th Bomb Wing">509th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_USAF_Fighter_Wings_assigned_to_Strategic_Air_Command" title="List of USAF Fighter Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command">Fighter</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Fighter_Wing" title="1st Fighter Wing">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Fighter_Wing" title="4th Fighter Wing">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Flying_Training_Wing" title="12th Flying Training Wing">12th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_Special_Operations_Wing" title="27th Special Operations Wing">27th</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">31st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/33d_Fighter_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="33d Fighter Wing">33d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/56th_Fighter_Wing" title="56th Fighter Wing">56th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_Flying_Training_Wing" title="71st Flying Training Wing">71st Strategic Reconnaissance (Fighter)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/82d_Training_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="82d Training Wing">82d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/407th_Air_Expeditionary_Group" title="407th Air Expeditionary Group">407th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/506th_Air_Expeditionary_Group" title="506th Air Expeditionary Group">506th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/508th_Aerospace_Sustainment_Wing" title="508th Aerospace Sustainment Wing">508th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_missile_wings_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="List of missile wings of the United States Air Force">Missile</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/44th_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="44th Strategic Missile Wing">44th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/90th_Missile_Wing" title="90th Missile Wing">90th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/91st_Missile_Wing" title="91st Missile Wing">91st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/308th_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="308th Strategic Missile Wing">308th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/321st_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="321st Strategic Missile Wing">321st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/341st_Missile_Wing" title="341st Missile Wing">341st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/351st_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="351st Strategic Missile Wing">351st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/381st_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="381st Strategic Missile Wing">381st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/389th_Strategic_Missile_Wing" title="389th Strategic Missile Wing">389th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/390th_Strategic_Missile_Wing" title="390th Strategic Missile Wing">390th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/392d_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="392d Strategic Missile Wing">392d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/451st_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="451st Strategic Missile Wing">451st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/455th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="455th Air Expeditionary Wing">455th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/702d_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="702d Strategic Missile Wing">702d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/703d_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="703d Strategic Missile Wing">703d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/404th_Air_Expeditionary_Group" title="404th Air Expeditionary Group">704th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/705th_Strategic_Missile_Wing" title="705th Strategic Missile Wing">705th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/706th_Strategic_Missile_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="706th Strategic Missile Wing">706th</a></li> <li>4320th Strategic Wing (Missile)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance" title="Reconnaissance">Reconnaissance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/6th_Air_Mobility_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Air Mobility Wing">6th Strategic Reconnaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_Tactical_Reconnaissance_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing">26th Strategic Reconnaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_Wing" title="55th Wing">55th Strategic Reconnaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/544th_Intelligence,_Surveillance_and_Reconnaissance_Group" title="544th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group">544th Aerospace Reconnaissance Technical</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_air_refueling_wings" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Air Force air refueling wings">Refueling</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/11th_Air_Refueling_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="11th Air Refueling Wing">11th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Air_Refueling_Wing" title="100th Air Refueling Wing">100th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/301st_Air_Refueling_Wing" title="301st Air Refueling Wing">301st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/305th_Air_Mobility_Wing" title="305th Air Mobility Wing">305th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/384th_Air_Refueling_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="384th Air Refueling Wing">384th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/452d_Air_Mobility_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="452d Air Mobility Wing">452d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/497th_Air_Refueling_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="497th Air Refueling Wing">497th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/499th_Air_Refueling_Wing" title="499th Air Refueling Wing">499th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/500th_Air_Refueling_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="500th Air Refueling Wing">500th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_USAF_Strategic_Wings_assigned_to_the_Strategic_Air_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="List of USAF Strategic Wings assigned to the Strategic Air Command">Strategic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Aerospace</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/310th_Space_Wing" title="310th Space Wing">310th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/385th_Strategic_Aerospace_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="385th Strategic Aerospace Wing">385th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/462d_Strategic_Aerospace_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="462d Strategic Aerospace Wing">462d</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">AFCON</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/95th_Air_Base_Wing" title="95th Air Base Wing">95th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/98th_Range_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="98th Range Wing">98th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/306th_Strategic_Wing" title="306th Strategic Wing">306th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/307th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="307th Strategic Wing">307th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/376th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="376th Air Expeditionary Wing">376th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_MAJCOM_wings_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="List of MAJCOM wings of the United States Air Force">MAJCOM</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/3918th_Strategic_Wing" title="3918th Strategic Wing">3918th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3920th_Strategic_Wing" title="3920th Strategic Wing">3920th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/43d_Airlift_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="43d Airlift Wing">3960th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3970th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="3970th Strategic Wing">3970th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3973d_Strategic_Wing" title="3973d Strategic Wing">3973d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4026th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4026th Strategic Wing">4026th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4038th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4038th Strategic Wing">4038th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4039th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4039th Strategic Wing">4039th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4042d_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4042d Strategic Wing">4042d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4043d_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4043d Strategic Wing">4043d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4047th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4047th Strategic Wing">4047th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Air_Refueling_Wing" title="100th Air Refueling Wing">4080th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4081st_Strategic_Wing" title="4081st Strategic Wing">4081st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4082d_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4082d Strategic Wing">4082d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4083d_Strategic_Wing" title="4083d Strategic Wing">4083d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4123d_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4123d Strategic Wing">4123d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4126th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4126th Strategic Wing">4126th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4138th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4138th Strategic Wing">4128th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4130th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4130th Strategic Wing">4130th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4133rd_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4133rd Strategic Wing">4133d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4134th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4134th Strategic Wing">4134th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4135th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4135th Strategic Wing">4135th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4136th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4136th Strategic Wing">4136th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4137th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4137th Strategic Wing">4137th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4138th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4138th Strategic Wing">4138th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4141st_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4141st Strategic Wing">4141st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4157th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4157th Strategic Wing">4157th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4158th_Strategic_Wing" title="4158th Strategic Wing">4158th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4170th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4170th Strategic Wing">4170th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4228th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4228th Strategic Wing">4228th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4238th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4238th Strategic Wing">4238th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4239th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4239th Strategic Wing">4239th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4241st_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4241st Strategic Wing">4241st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4245th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4245th Strategic Wing">4245th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/376th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="376th Strategic Wing">4252nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4258th_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4258th Strategic Wing">4258th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4321st_Strategic_Wing" class="mw-redirect" title="4321st Strategic Wing">4321st</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">USAAF<br />Groups<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><big>*</big>= initial assigned<br />unit upon SAC's<br />activation</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Bombardment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2d_Operations_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="2d Operations Group">2d</a> (7/47)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Operations_Group" title="7th Operations Group">7th</a> (10/46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Operations_Group" title="28th Operations Group">28th</a> (8/46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="40th Air Expeditionary Wing">40th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/43rd_Operations_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="43rd Operations Group">43rd</a> (10/46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/44th_Operations_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="44th Operations Group">44th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/92nd_Operations_Group" title="92nd Operations Group">92nd</a> (10/46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/93d_Operations_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="93d Operations Group">93d</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/97th_Operations_Group" title="97th Operations Group">97th</a> (8/46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/98th_Operations_Group" title="98th Operations Group">98th</a> (7/47)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/301st_Operations_Group" title="301st Operations Group">301st</a> (8/46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/307th_Bombardment_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="307th Bombardment Group">307th</a> (8/46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/444th_Bombardment_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="444th Bombardment Group">444th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/448th_Fighter-Bomber_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="448th Fighter-Bomber Group">448th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/449th_Air_Expeditionary_Group" title="449th Air Expeditionary Group">449th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/467th_Bombardment_Group" title="467th Bombardment Group">467th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/485th_Air_Expeditionary_Wing" title="485th Air Expeditionary Wing">485th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/498th_Tactical_Missile_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="498th Tactical Missile Group">498th</a> (3/46*)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/509th_Composite_Group" title="509th Composite Group">509th Composite</a> (3/46*)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Fighter</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/27th_Special_Operations_Group" title="27th Special Operations Group">27th</a> (6/47)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_Operations_Group" title="55th Operations Group">55th</a> (2/47)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Reconnaissance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/91st_Operations_Group" title="91st Operations Group">91st Strategic Reconnaissance</a> (1/47)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center; background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Equipment_of_Strategic_Air_Command" title="Equipment of Strategic Air Command">Major<br />weapon<br />systems</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Bomber_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Bomber aircraft">Bombers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rockwell_B-1_Lancer" title="Rockwell B-1 Lancer">Rockwell B-1 Lancer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit">Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress" title="Boeing B-29 Superfortress">Boeing B-29 Superfortress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker" title="Convair B-36 Peacemaker">Convair B-36 Peacemaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_American_B-45_Tornado" title="North American B-45 Tornado">North American B-45 Tornado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-47_Stratojet" title="Boeing B-47 Stratojet">Boeing B-47 Stratojet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-50_Superfortress" title="Boeing B-50 Superfortress">Boeing B-50 Superfortress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress" title="Boeing B-52 Stratofortress">Boeing B-52 Stratofortress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convair_B-58_Hustler" title="Convair B-58 Hustler">Convair B-58 Hustler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvark" title="General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark">General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Command_and_control" title="Command and control">Command<br />& Control</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_DC-130" title="Lockheed DC-130">Lockheed DC-130</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_E-4" title="Boeing E-4">Boeing E-4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_EC-135" title="Boeing EC-135">Boeing EC-135</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_RC-135" title="Boeing RC-135">Boeing RC-135</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Fighters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang" title="North American P-51 Mustang">North American F-2 Mustang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mustang" title="North American F-82 Twin Mustang">North American F-82 Twin Mustang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_F-84F_Thunderstreak" title="Republic F-84F Thunderstreak">Republic F-84F Thunderstreak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre" title="North American F-86 Sabre">North American F-86 Sabre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convair_F-102_Delta_Dagger" title="Convair F-102 Delta Dagger">Convair F-102 Delta Dagger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvark" title="General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark">General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center">Missiles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ADM-20_Quail" title="ADM-20 Quail">ADM-20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AGM-28_Hound_Dog" title="AGM-28 Hound Dog">AGM-28</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AGM-69_SRAM" title="AGM-69 SRAM">AGM-69</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AGM-84_Harpoon" class="mw-redirect" title="AGM-84 Harpoon">AGM-84</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AGM-86_ALCM" title="AGM-86 ALCM">AGM-86</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AGM-129_ACM" title="AGM-129 ACM">AGM-129</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SM-65_Atlas" title="SM-65 Atlas">HGM-16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman" title="LGM-30 Minuteman">LGM-30A/B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman" title="LGM-30 Minuteman">LGM-30F</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman" title="LGM-30 Minuteman">LGM-30G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper" title="LGM-118 Peacekeeper">LGM-118A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SM-62_Snark" title="SM-62 Snark">SM-62</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PGM-17_Thor" title="PGM-17 Thor">PGM-17A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter" title="PGM-19 Jupiter">PGM-19A</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Aerial_reconnaissance" title="Aerial reconnaissance">Reconnaissance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird" title="Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird">Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_U-2#U-2R/S_details" title="Lockheed U-2">Lockheed TR-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_U-2" title="Lockheed U-2">Lockheed U-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_RB-57D_Canberra" title="Martin RB-57D Canberra">Martin RB-57D Canberra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress" title="Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress">Boeing RB-17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress" title="Boeing B-29 Superfortress">Boeing RB-29</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Aerial_refueling" title="Aerial refueling">Tankers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_KB-29_Superfortress" title="Boeing KB-29 Superfortress">Boeing KB-29 Superfortress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-50_Superfortress" title="Boeing B-50 Superfortress">Boeing KB-50</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_KC-10_Extender" title="McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender">McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_KC-97_Stratofreighter" title="Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter">Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_HC-130" title="Lockheed HC-130">Lockheed HC-130</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_KC-130" title="Lockheed Martin KC-130">Lockheed Martin KC-130</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_KC-135_Stratotanker" title="Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker">Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Military_transport_aircraft" title="Military transport aircraft">Transport</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beechcraft_Model_18" title="Beechcraft Model 18">Beechcraft C-45</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain" title="Douglas C-47 Skytrain">Douglas C-47 Skytrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_C-54_Skymaster" title="Douglas C-54 Skymaster">Douglas C-54 Skymaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairchild_C-82_Packet" title="Fairchild C-82 Packet">Fairchild C-82 Packet</a></li> <li><a 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