101st Air Refueling Wing

101st Air Refueling Wing

132d Air Refueling Squadron – Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker refueling an F-22A Raptor
Active March 2, 1942 – present
Country  United States
Allegiance  Maine
Branch   Air National Guard
Type Wing
Role Air Refueling
Part of Maine Air National Guard
Garrison/HQ Bangor Air National Guard Base, Bangor, Maine
Nickname(s) "MAINEiacs"
Motto(s) He Strikes As Lightning
Tail Code A white tailband with black text 'Maine' included.
Engagements Burma Campaign 1944–1945
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Gabriel P. Disosway
Insignia
101st Air Refueling Wing emblem

The 101st Air Refueling Wing (101 ARW) is a unit of the Maine Air National Guard, stationed at Bangor Air National Guard Base, Bangor, Maine. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command.

Units

The 101st Air Refueling Wing consists of the following major units:

132d Air Refueling Squadron

History

Maine Air National Guard

132d Fighter Squadron – Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star 48–891, 1950
133d Fighter Squadron – Republic F-47D Thunderbolt 44-89766, the first aircraft assigned to the New Hampshire Air National Guard

Korean War federalization

The mission of the 101st FIW was the air defense of New England. Its assigned squadrons were dispersed and equipped as follows:

Air defense mission

133d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-51 Mustang 44-64356, Ethan Allen AFB, NH, 1953
101st Fighter Group (Air Defense) North American F-86L, 53-0925, Ethan Allen AFB, 1959
101st Air Defense Wing McDonnell F-101B Voodoo 57–415 in the winter of 1974 at Bangor AGB.

Air refueling

132d AREFS KC-135A 57-1491 about 1980 in SAC markings
1990/1991 Gulf crisis
132d ARS KC-135 refueling an A-10 from the 358th Fighter Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona
Modern era
101st ARW KC-135Es at Pisa Airport, Italy, 1996

Lineage

Operation Enduring Freedom Deployment Patch, 2005
Operation Northern Watch Deployment Patch, 2000
1997 101st Air Refueling Wing 50th Anniversary Patch
North East Tanker Task Force Patch, 1994
Activated on 25 October 1950
Federalized and ordered to active service on 1 February 1951
Inactivated on 6 February 1952[1]
Activated and received federal recognition on 1 November 1952

Assignments

Gaining commands
Air Defense Command (later Aerospace Defense Command), 1 November 1952
Strategic Air Command, 1 July 1976
Air Combat Command, 1 June 1992
Air Mobility Command, 1 June 1993 – present

Components

132d Fighter Squadron (later 132d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 132d Air Refueling Squadron), 31 March 1976 - 16 March 1992

Stations

Aircraft

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cornett & Johnson, p. 63
  2. The 101st Fighter Group (Air Defense) was withdrawn from the Maine Air National Guard in 1954. In 1960, it was a unit of the New Hampshire Air National Guard. When it converted to the airlift mission, it was redesignated 157th Air Transport Group and a new 101st Fighter Group was activated in the Maine Air National Guard.

Bibliography

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External links

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