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He who has command of the sea has command of everyhing. -- Themistocles |
939th Operations Group(260 total words in this text)(1874 Reads)  Established as 939 Operations Group, and activated in the Reserve, on 1 Aug 1992. Assignments 939 Rescue (later 939 Air Refueling)Wing, 1 Aug 1992-. Components Squadrons. 64 Air Refueling: 1 Apr 2003-. 301 Rescue: 1 Aug 1992-15 Apr 1997. 303 Rescue: 15 Apr 1997-1 Apr 2003. 304 Rescue: 1 Aug 1992-1 Apr 2003. 305 Rescue: 1 Aug 1992-1 Sep 1992; 1 Oct 1993-1 Apr 2003. Stations Portland Intl Aprt, OR, 1 Aug 1992-. Commanders Lt Col Frederick E. Stovel, 1 Aug 1992; unkn, 9 Mar-15 May 1993; Col William P. Kane, 16 May 1993; Col Orel W. Carper, 24 Sep 1995-. Aircraft MH-60, 1992; UH-60, 1992-1993; HH-60, 1992-; HC-130, 1992-. Operations Trained for combat search and rescue, as well as performed search and rescue (SAR) and medical airlift missions primarily in the western United States. In addition, deployed aircrews to augment active duty SAR coverage primarily at Keflavik, Iceland and the Persian Gulf area, 1992-. Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1 Sep 1993-31 Aug 1995; 1 Sep 1997-31 Aug 1999; 1 Sep 1999-31 Aug 2001. Lineage, Assignments, Components, Stations, and Honors through 1 Apr 2003 Commanders, Aircraft, and Operations through Sep 1998 Emblem Group will use the Wing emblem with the Group designation in the scroll. |
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1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
