927th Air Refueling Wing, US Air Force
927TH AIR REFUELING WING, US AIR FORCE
History: Established as 927 Troop Carrier Group, Medium, and activated, on 15 January 1963. Organized in the Reserve on 11 February 1963. Redesignated as: 927 Tactical Airlift Group on 1 July 1967; 927 Tactical Air Support Group on 25 June 1969; 927 Tactical Airlift Group on 29 June 1971; 927 Airlift Group on 1 February 1992; 927 Air Refueling Group on 1 June 1992; 927 Air Refueling Wing on 1 October 1994. Organized, equipped, and trained for tactical airlift from 1963-1969, participating in exercises with the 82 and 101 Airborne Divisions to prepare them for missions to the Dominican Republic in 1965 and to Vietnam. The group ferried personnel and equipment to various locations around the country and sometimes to overseas theaters. Between 1969 and 1971, it used small aircraft and jeeps to train ground and airborne forward air controllers and air liaison personnel to support ground forces in a theater of operations. In 1971, the group returned to its tactical airlift mission, training for intratheater air movements of troops, equipment, and supplies. Between 1971 and 1990, it participated in various training exercises, humanitarian airlift operations, and rotational deployments to Panama. Group elements deployed to Southwest Asia during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991 to provide tactical airlift of troops and military materiel. In 1992, the group began flying air refueling missions. It continued taking part in training exercises, but also supported some overseas movements. In 1995 the wing refueled transports pulling U.S. troops out of Somalia. It also refueled fighters participating in NATO’s Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia. Using its tankers as transports, the wing supported Operation Joint Endeavor by airlifting cargo from the United States to Germany. In 1996 and 1997, it provided air refueling support for NATO units operating in and around Bosnia-Herzegovina in Operation Decisive Endeavor. After terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001, provided air refueling to USAF fighter aircraft patrolling the northern US in support of Operation Noble Eagle. Supported Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, 2005-. On 1 May 2008, Wing moved to MacDill AFB, FL to support operations of 6 Air Mobility Wing, in accordance with 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) decision. After a devastating earthquake hit Haiti on 12 January 2010; wing supported Operation United Response in Haiti, January-June 2010.
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The Emblem was approved on 5 June 1995. Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/
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