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Flying Tiger Maintenance: 23rd Maintenance Group, 23rd Wing: Moody Air Force Base [12] 28th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 28th Maintenance Group, 28th Bomb Wing: Ellsworth Air Force Base: 34th AMU and 37th AMU. [13] 31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Dominant and Expeditionary: 31st Maintenance Group, 31st Fighter Wing: Aviano Air Base [14]
The 28th Operations Group is the flying component of the United States Air Force 28th Bomb Wing, stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. The group controls two Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomb squadrons, and provides combat-ready aircrews to project global power anytime in support of the Combatant Commander's objectives.
In December 1998, 28th deployed aircraft, which flew under the flag of the 28th Air Expeditionary Group in Operation Desert Fox, were the first B-1s to drop bombs on an enemy target. In late March 2011, B-1 bombers from the 28th Bomb Wing were deployed on a mission to Libya to attack military targets in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn .
Ellsworth AFB was established in 1941 as Rapid City Army Air Base (AAB).It was later renamed for Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth (1911–1953), a 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing commander killed when his RB-36 Peacemaker aircraft crashed near Burgoyens Cove, Newfoundland, during a training flight.
The squadron was activated in October 2011 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota [15] as an MQ-9 Reaper squadron and assigned to the 28th Operations Group. [3] The squadron replaced Detachment 1, 28th Operations Group, which had been activated in April 2011 to act as the lead organization to prepare Ellsworth for the activation of the ...
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The 37th Bomb Squadron is part of the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. It operates Rockwell B-1 Lancer aircraft providing strategic bombing capability. The squadron is one of the oldest in the United States Air Force, its origins dating to 13 June 1917, when the 37th Aero Squadron was organized at Kelly Field , Texas.
The 928th Air Refueling Squadron was active from 1959 to 1960 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota as the 28th Bombardment Wing converted to Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers. The squadrons were consolidated on 19 September 1985 and converted to provisional status as the 928th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron in 2003.