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9th Aerial Port Squadron: Forbes AFB: 10th Aerial Port Squadron: Dyess AFB: 11th Aerial Port Squadron: Mitchel AFB: Activated in the reserves in 1954 as 11th Aerial Port Operations Squadron 12th Aerial Port Squadron: Pittsburgh, PA: Activated in the reserves in 1954 as 12th Aerial Port Operations Squadron 13th Aerial Port Squadron: O'Hare ...
The base was renamed Travis Air Force Base in 1951 for Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, who was killed when a B-29 Superfortress crashed shortly after takeoff on 5 August 1950. The ensuing fire caused the 10,000 pounds of high explosives in the plane's cargo — a Mark 4 nuclear weapon (minus its nuclear core) — to detonate, killing ...
On 5 November 2008, the 60th received its 13th and final C-17 aircraft, "The Spirit of Travis." Fifteen members of the Travis family were on hand to witness the aircraft's arrival. From February to August 2008, the 21st Airlift Squadron with C-17A Globemaster IIIs deployed as a squadron in support of the Operations ENDURING AND IRAQI FREEDOM.
"The 615th Contingency Response Wing [was] one of two Contingency Response Wings assigned to the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command. Headquartered at Travis Air Force Base, California, the [wing]'s primary mission [was] to employ rapidly deployable cross-functional teams to quickly open forward airbases in an expeditionary environment to meet combatant commanders' needs.
The 60th Operations Group (60 OG) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing.It is stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California.. Established prior to World War II, its predecessor unit, the 60th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group engaged in combat operations, first with the Eighth Air Force and primarily with Twelfth Air Force during the war.
Many soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines returned to the United States from the Vietnam War via the Travis Aerial Port. C-97 Stratofreighter. The 530th Air Transport Group was organized from a consolidation of the Air Transport Command (ATC) Eastern Pacific Wing and Naval Air Transport Squadrons. Its first commander was Brigadier General ...
Travis AFB, California: KC-10A [15] 9th Air Refueling Squadron: Air Mobility Command: Eighteenth Air Force: 60 AMW: 1 February 1942 Travis AFB, California: KC-10A [16] 18th Air Refueling Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 931 ARW: 11 December 1940 McConnell AFB, Kansas: KC-135 [17] 32nd Air Refueling Squadron: Air Mobility ...
Aerial Port Squadron (APS) is a United States Air Force organization which operates and provides the military logistical functions assigned to aerial ports, including processing personnel and cargo, rigging for airdrop, packing parachutes, loading equipment, preparing air cargo and load plans, loading and securing aircraft, ejecting cargo for inflight delivery, and supervising units engaged in ...