2d Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron

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The 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron was a medical evacuation squadron of the United States Air Force. It was active from 1975 to 1994 at Rhein-Main Air Base, Federal Republic of Germany.

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It was assigned to the 435th Military Airlift Support Wing (later the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing) 31 March 1975 – 15 December 1978; 1 June 1980 – 1 April 1992.[ citation needed ] As an aeromedical evacuation unit, it was also associated with (but not assigned to) the hub of USAF aeromedical evacuation operations, the 375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. [1]

It traces its history to the 2d Aeromedical Evacuation Group (AEG). The 7416th AEG, and its assigned units, all part of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, were reorganized on 8 April 1957 as the 2d AEG. The new 2d AEG comprised the 1st, 3rd, and 7th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadrons and the 18th Casualty Staging Flight. [2] At the beginning of 1958 it was stationed at Évreux-Fauville Air Base in France. [3] The 2d AEG was transferred to Military Airlift Command in 1974-75. [4] By late 1980, the 2d AEG was reorganized as a squadron.

The 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron's operations included:

As part of the 1610th Air Division
Crews from the 2d Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and hospital staff from Wiesbaden Military Hospital responded via Lockheed C-141 Starlifter and C-9 Nightingale after the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) struck a mine while operating as part of Operation Earnest Will in the Persian Gulf. Four of the ship's crew were airlifted to Germany. [6]

In 1994 the 2nd AES was inactivated and its assets and personnel used to activate the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron.

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Activated on 8 April 1957
Redesignated 2d Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron on 1 July 1975
Inactivated c. 1 October 1994

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Stations

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ Stephen E. Behr (November 1989). "375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing". The MAC Flyer.
  2. ↑ Fifth Report of the USAF Medical Service, p21.
  3. ↑ "Annual Report of the USAF Medical Service". 1958.
  4. ↑ Betty R. Kennedy, ed. (May 1991). "Anything Anywhere Anytime: An Illustrated History of the Military Airlift Command 1941-91" (PDF). Scott AFB, Il.: Military Airlift Command Office of History. p. 167.
  5. ↑ Anything Anywhere Anytime, p172
  6. ↑ Peniston, Bradley. "86th AES supports operations in Haiti" . Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Members of the 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron transfer a wounded Marine to a bus after his arrival from Beirut, Lebanon, where a terrorist bomb attack destroyed the Marine barracks and headquarters building, 10/23/1983". Research.archive.gov.
  8. ↑ Fletcher, p. 158

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