517th Airlift Squadron, US Air Force

517TH AIRLIFT SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE

History: Constituted 17 Transport Squadron on 20 November 1940. Activated on 11 December 1940. Redesignated 17 Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942. Inactivated on 31 July 1945. Activated on 19 May 1947. Inactivated on 10 September 1948. Redesignated 17 Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium, on 3 July 1952. Activated on 14 July 1952. Inactivated on 21 July 1954. Activated on 24 October 1960. Organized on 8 February 1961. Redesignated: 17 Troop Carrier Squadron on 8 December 1965; 17 Tactical Airlift Squadron on 1 September 1967; 517 Airlift Squadron on 1 April 1992. World War II: Included airborne assaults on Sicily and Southern France; support for partisans in Northern Italy, January-May 1945; aerial transportation in MTO, and briefly in CBI. Unmanned, 1947-1948. Resupplied Distant Early Warning (DEW) line sites in Northern Canada and radar sites in Greenland, 1964-1975. Parts of the squadron deployed to South Vietnam, 1967-1968 to provide tactical airlift. Provided intratheater airlift within Alaska including support to forward operating bases; airland/airdrop of troops, equipment and supplies; search and rescue as required. Provided C-130 aircraft and crews for Pacific airlift to Southwest Asia, August-November 1990. Since 1992, provided worldwide combat airdrop, tactical air/land, operational support airlift, airlift for theater deployed forces and resupply of remote Alaskan long-range radar sites in support of PACAF. Provided continuous rotational airlift and airdrop support for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, 2004-. Among first responders to Asian tsunami that occurred on 26 December 2004.

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Origin/meaning

The Emblem was approved on 29 March 1962; modified on 16 February 1999.

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