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The United States Air Force organized its first air refueling squadrons in 1948. In 1955,

Strategic Air Command Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile ...

(SAC) organized the first wing to command air refueling units at Dow Air Force Base, Maine. Since then, air refueling wings have been organized by

Tactical Air Command Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was a Major Command of the United States Air Force, established on 21 March 1946 and headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. It was inactivated on 1 J ...

(TAC), Military Airlift Command (MAC), United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) and

Air Mobility Command Air Mobility Command (AMC) is a major command (MAJCOM) of the U.S. Air Force. It is headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, east of St. Louis, Missouri. Air Mobility Command was established on 1 June 1992, and was formed from elements ...

(AMC). Additional wings have been organized in the

Air National Guard The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a federal military reserve force of the United States Air Force, as well as the air militia of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the ter ...

(ANG) and the Air Reserves (AFRES).In addition to the wings listed, The

335th Bombardment Group The 335th Air Refueling Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. The group was active at Barksdale Field, Louisiana from July 1942 as a training unit for medium bomber aircrews. It was disbanded in May 1944, when the Army Air Forces ...

was redesignated the 335th Air Refueling Wing in July 1985. It retains this designation, but it has not been active under any designation since the redesignation. Department of the Air Force/MPM Letter 648q, 31 July 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Organizations

Background

Prior to 1991, some refueling wings' full designations also included an additional parenthetical. They included: * Air Refueling Wing, Heavy:

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner. It is the predominant variant of the C-135 Stratolifter family of transpor ...

, McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender * Air Refueling Wing, Medium: Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter, Boeing KB-29 Superfortress, Boeing KB-50 Superfortress * Air Refueling Wing, Tactical: Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter, Boeing KB-29 Superfortress, Boeing KB-50 Superfortress * Air Refueling Wing, Fighter-Bomber: Boeing KB-29 Superfortress * Air Refueling Wing (Training): Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter Air refueling squadrons were also assigned to other types of wings, most frequently to bombardment wings, but also to strategic wings, strategic aerospace wings, strategic fighter wings, fighter-bomber wings, tactical reconnaissance wings, or (generic) wings.

List of wings

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Bibliography

* * * ; Further reading * * {{cite book, last1=Hopkins, first1=J. C. , last2=Goldberg, first2=Sheldon A., title=The Development of Strategic Air Command 1946-1986 (the fortieth anniversary history) , url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112001080677;view=1up;seq=3 , access-date=February 18, 2018, year=1986, publisher= Office of the Historian, Strategic Air Command, location= Offutt AFB, NE, isbn= , asin= * air refueling