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66th Training Squadron

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{{Infobox military unit

|unit_name=66th Training Squadron

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|caption=Students escape from a simulated crashed aircraft during water survival training

|dates=1942–1946; 1947–1951; 1971–present

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|branch={{air force|USA}}

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|role=survival training

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|command_structure=Air Education and Training Command

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|garrison=Fairchild Air Force Base

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|motto=Learn and Return

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|battles=Southwest Pacific Theater

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|decorations=Distinguished Unit Citation
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation

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|identification_symbol=165px

|identification_symbol_label=66th Training Sq emblemOriginally approved for the 3614th Combat Crew Training Squadron.

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|identification_symbol_2_label=66th Troop Carrier Squadron emblemApproved 15 December 1944.Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 249-250

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The 66th Training Squadron is an active unit of the United States Air Force. Its current assignment is with the 336th Training Group at Fairchild Air Force Base where is performs the training for the SERE instructor course for the USAF.

History

=World War II=

During World War II, the squadron operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater, conveying personnel, dropping parachutists, towing gliders, transporting cargo, munitions and evacuating casualties in numerous campaigns. The squadron earned both the United States Distinguished Unit Citation and the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for its combat operations.

=Air Force reserve=

As part of the Air Force Reserve during the postwar years, the squadron performed peacetime transport missions. Ordered to active service during the Korean War, the units' equipment and personnel were reassigned to Far East Air Force active duty units. It was then inactivated as a paper unit.

=Survival training=

The 3614th Combat Crew Training Squadron was activated at Clark Air Base, Philippines in April 1971, when Air Training Command assumed responsibility for operating th Jungle Survival School there from Pacific Air Forces.

Lineage

; 66th Troop Carrier Squadron

  • Constituted as the 66th Troop Carrier Squadron on 7 December 1942

: Activated on 12 December 1942

: Inactivated on 15 January 1946

  • Activated in the reserve on 3 August 1947

: Redesignated the 66th Troop Carrier Squadron (Medium) on 27 June 1949.

: Ordered to active service on 1 April 1951.

: Inactivated on 17 April 1951Lineage through May 1963 in Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 249-250.

  • Consolidated with the 3614th Combat Crew Training Squadron as the 66th Crew Training Squadron on 1 January 1993

; 66th Training Squadron

  • Designated as the 3614th Combat Crew Training Squadron

: Organized on 1 April 1971

: Consolidated with the 66th Troop Carrier Squadron as the 66th Crew Training Squadron on 1 January 1993

: Redesignated 66th Training Squadron on 1 April 1994

=Assignments=

=Stations=

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  • Mokmer Airfield, Biak, Netherlands East Indies, 18 November 1944 (operated from Hill Field, Mindoro, and Dulag Airfield, Leyte, Philippines after 18 January 1945)
  • Wama Airfield, Morotai, Netherlands East Indies, 27 February 1945
  • Dulag Airfield, Leyte, Philippines, 15 August 1945 – 15 January 1946
  • Roanoke Municipal Airport, Virginia, 3 August 1947
  • Portland Municipal Airport, Oregon, 27 June 1949 – 17 April 1951
  • Clark Air Base, Philippines, 1 April 1971
  • Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 4 April 1981 – presentMueller, p. 177

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References

=Notes=

; Explanatory notes

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=Bibliography=

{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}

  • {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Air Force Combat Units of World War II|orig-year= 1961|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180735/http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 20 December 2016|access-date= December 17, 2016|edition=reprint|year=1983|publisher= Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-912799-02-1|lccn=61060979}}
  • {{cite book|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180455/http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 20 December 2016 |title=Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II|publisher=Office of Air Force History|year=1982|isbn=0-405-12194-6|edition= reprint|location=Washington, DC|lccn=70605402|oclc=72556|editor=Maurer, Maurer|orig-year=1969}}
  • {{cite book|last=Mueller|first=Robert|title=Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982|url= https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf |access-date=December 17, 2016|year=1989|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-912799-53-6}}

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Category:Survival training

Category:Training squadrons of the United States Air Force