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141st Air Refueling Wing
The 141st Air Refueling Wing is a unit of the Washington Air National Guard, stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. If activated to federal service, the wing is gained by Air Mobility Command (AMC). As a result of Base Realignment and Closure action, the wing no longer has any unit assigned aircraft and is an associate squadron sharing KC-135R aircraft with AMC's 92d Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild. The wing was activated in 1976, when it absorbed the subordinate elements of the 141st Fighter-Interceptor Group, which moved to Fairchild from Geiger Field, where they had been supporting an air defense mission.
The 116th Air Refueling Squadron assigned to the wing's 141st Operations Group, was first organized during World War I as the 116th Aero Squadron, and is one of the 29 squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II.
The wing's mission is to provide the air refueling for the United States Air Force and the Air Guard. It also provides air refueling support to Navy, Marine Corps and allied nation aircraft. Equipped with the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, the wing is capable of transporting litter and ambulatory patients using patient support pallets during aeromedical evacuations. The KC-135 has often served as transport for the wing's own units.
The 141st Air Refueling Wing is composed of the following units:
The wing provides support to two squadrons that are assigned to the 194th Regional Support Wing but are geographically separated units stationed at Fairchild AFB:
In July 1976, the wing was organized at Fairchild Air Force Base, receiving most of its units, including the 116th Air Refueling Squadron. from the 141st Fighter-Interceptor Group, which was inactivated at Geiger Field. was transferred to Strategic Air Command (SAC) and the 116th Fighter Squadron converted to the KC-135 Stratotanker, becoming the fifth Air National Guard unit to join SAC. With the transfer, the 141st was changed in status from a Group to a Wing. The 141st Air Refueling Wing also moved from Geiger Field to nearby Fairchild Air Force Base to accommodate the larger KC-135A aircraft. An Air National Guard spokesman at the time characterized the conversion from the F-101 Voodoo to the KC-135 as "like giving up an MG for a semi-truck".
During the 1990 Gulf Crisis, aircrew, maintenance and support personnel responded to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, and deployed to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Upon federal activation in December 1990, all eight of the unit’s KC-135's deployed to the Middle East. The 116th refueled coalition attack aircraft during Operation Desert Storm.
In December 1991, the unit responded with aircrew and support personnel for Operation Restore Hope, a United Nations relief mission to aid hunger victims in Somalia. In 1992, the Air Force considered, but ultimately rejected, converting the 141st from an air refueling wing to a bomb wing equipped with the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, possibly transferred from the 92nd Bomb Wing. June 1995, several rotations deployed to Pisa, Italy, for Operation Deny Flight, NATO mission enforcing the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. In May 1999, six KC-135E's deployed to Budapest, Hungary in support of Operation Allied Force to deter ethnic aggressions in Yugoslavia.
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141st Air Refueling Wing
The 141st Air Refueling Wing is a unit of the Washington Air National Guard, stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. If activated to federal service, the wing is gained by Air Mobility Command (AMC). As a result of Base Realignment and Closure action, the wing no longer has any unit assigned aircraft and is an associate squadron sharing KC-135R aircraft with AMC's 92d Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild. The wing was activated in 1976, when it absorbed the subordinate elements of the 141st Fighter-Interceptor Group, which moved to Fairchild from Geiger Field, where they had been supporting an air defense mission.
The 116th Air Refueling Squadron assigned to the wing's 141st Operations Group, was first organized during World War I as the 116th Aero Squadron, and is one of the 29 squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II.
The wing's mission is to provide the air refueling for the United States Air Force and the Air Guard. It also provides air refueling support to Navy, Marine Corps and allied nation aircraft. Equipped with the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, the wing is capable of transporting litter and ambulatory patients using patient support pallets during aeromedical evacuations. The KC-135 has often served as transport for the wing's own units.
The 141st Air Refueling Wing is composed of the following units:
The wing provides support to two squadrons that are assigned to the 194th Regional Support Wing but are geographically separated units stationed at Fairchild AFB:
In July 1976, the wing was organized at Fairchild Air Force Base, receiving most of its units, including the 116th Air Refueling Squadron. from the 141st Fighter-Interceptor Group, which was inactivated at Geiger Field. was transferred to Strategic Air Command (SAC) and the 116th Fighter Squadron converted to the KC-135 Stratotanker, becoming the fifth Air National Guard unit to join SAC. With the transfer, the 141st was changed in status from a Group to a Wing. The 141st Air Refueling Wing also moved from Geiger Field to nearby Fairchild Air Force Base to accommodate the larger KC-135A aircraft. An Air National Guard spokesman at the time characterized the conversion from the F-101 Voodoo to the KC-135 as "like giving up an MG for a semi-truck".
During the 1990 Gulf Crisis, aircrew, maintenance and support personnel responded to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, and deployed to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Upon federal activation in December 1990, all eight of the unit’s KC-135's deployed to the Middle East. The 116th refueled coalition attack aircraft during Operation Desert Storm.
In December 1991, the unit responded with aircrew and support personnel for Operation Restore Hope, a United Nations relief mission to aid hunger victims in Somalia. In 1992, the Air Force considered, but ultimately rejected, converting the 141st from an air refueling wing to a bomb wing equipped with the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, possibly transferred from the 92nd Bomb Wing. June 1995, several rotations deployed to Pisa, Italy, for Operation Deny Flight, NATO mission enforcing the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. In May 1999, six KC-135E's deployed to Budapest, Hungary in support of Operation Allied Force to deter ethnic aggressions in Yugoslavia.