146th Airlift Wing: Difference between revisions
→Lineage: edited and expanded |
→Assignments: edited and expanded |
||
| Line 43: | Line 43: | ||
===Assignments=== |
===Assignments=== |
||
* [[I Fighter Command]], 15 August 1943 – 15 March 1944 |
|||
: Attached to: [[New York Fighter Wing]], 23 October 1943 – 15 March 1944 |
|||
* [[303d Fighter Wing (World War II)|303d Fighter Wing]] |
|||
: Attached to: [[XIX Tactical Air Command]], 4 April 1944 |
|||
* [[Second Air Force]], 4 August 1945 |
|||
* [[First Air Force]], 20 August – 7 November 1945 |
|||
===Components=== |
===Components=== |
||
Revision as of 14:09, 19 September 2012
| 146th Airlift Wing | |
|---|---|
 146th Airlift Wing emblem | |
| Active | (1943–present) |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | Air National Guard |
| Type | Airlift Wing |
| Role | Tactical Airlift, Fire Suppression, Med-Evac |
| Part of | Mississippi Air National Guard |
| Garrison/HQ | Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Oxnard, California. |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Colonel Paul J. Hargrove |
The 146th Airlift Wing (146 AW) is a unit of the California Air National Guard, stationed at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Oxnard, California. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command.
The 115th Airlift Squadron assigned to the Wings 143d Operations Group, is a descendant organization of the 115th Observation Squadron, established on 16 June 1924. It is one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II. It is the oldest unit in the California Air National Guard, having almost 90 years of service to the state and nation.
Mission
The 146th AW's primary mission is to provide global military airlift capability to a full spectrum of state and federal agencies. Flying the Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, the 146th has provided humanitarian relief in the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and other disasters, in California, the United States and internationally.
The 146th is one of four C-130 ANG units whose contribution to the United States' aerial fire fighting capability includes equipment and techniques for efficient, effective suppression of large wildland fires from the air. Since 1974, using the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) units supplied by the US Forest Service and mounted in four C-130s, the wing’s aerial fire fighting crews have been credited with saving many lives and countless millions of dollars worth of structures, forests, and brush land in California and other states and countries.
MAFFS II was used for the first time on a fire in July 2010,[1] using the latest generation Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aircraft.[2] The 146th Airlift Wing was the first to transition to the MAFFS 2 system in 2008, and it remains the only unit flying the new system on the C-130J aircraft[3]
History
Lineage
- Constituted as 373d Fighter Group on 25 May 1943
- Activated on 15 August 1943
- Inactivated on 7 November 1945
Assignments
- I Fighter Command, 15 August 1943 – 15 March 1944
- Attached to: New York Fighter Wing, 23 October 1943 – 15 March 1944
- Attached to: XIX Tactical Air Command, 4 April 1944
- Second Air Force, 4 August 1945
- First Air Force, 20 August – 7 November 1945
Components
Stations
Aircraft
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
External links
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg)
| Leadership |  | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structure |
| ||||||||||
| Personnel and training | |||||||||||
| Uniforms and equipment | |||||||||||
| History and traditions |
| ||||||||||
