375th Air Mobility Wing

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375th Air Mobility Wing
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Emblems of the 375th Air Mobility Wing
Active10 May 1949 – present
Country United States
Branch Air Force
TypeAirlift
Part of Air Mobility Command
Garrison/HQ Scott Air Force Base
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Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel John D. Poole
Vice commander Colonel Richard K. Kind
Command Chief Command Chief Master Sergeant Chief Master Sergeant Shawn A. Andrews

The 375th Air Mobility Wing (375 AMW) is a unit of the United States Air Force stationed at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois and assigned to Eighteenth Air Force under Air Mobility Command (AMC).

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The wing has four primary missions. It supports aeromedical evacuation within the United States. It provides operational support airlift for government officials. It offers direct security for U.S. community and nation. And it provides support for U.S. host units—making possible the command and control of the United States' entire military transportation effort.

Units

375th Operations Group (375 OG)

375th Mission Support Group (375 MSG)

375th Medical Group (375 MDG)

History

For additional lineage and history, see 375th Operations Group

The wing traces its origins to the 375th Troop Carrier Group, which carried cargo and personnel during the Second World War. It was initially trained for overseas duty and then moved to the South West Pacific Area, June–July 1943. It then carried out transport missions following the forward advance until Japan was reached in 1945.

The 375 Troop Carrier Wing, Medium was activated at Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania and trained in the Reserve from May 1949 until it was called to active duty in October 1950. After a period of intensive training, now as a wing, it participated in troop carrier and airlift operations, paratroop drops, and other exercises, October 1950 – July 1952.

The wing was again allotted to the Reserve for training from July 1952 – November 1957. It conducted domestic aeromedical airlift and evacuation operations in the continental United States, Alaska, and off-shore areas of the North Atlantic and the Caribbean from January 1966 for the Air Force, other Department of Defense agencies, the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Veterans Administration (VA), augmented by aircraft of the Air National Guard and other Military Airlift Command units.

Between January 1966 and April 1975 the wing maintained and scheduled support aircraft at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, generally using aircrews provided by other Scott-based units to provide scheduled air shuttle and courier service to the east and west coasts. From January 1966 to September 1968 and since June 1973, the wing operated and maintained Scott AFB.

It airlifted more than 700 VA hospital patients from Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, to safety during Hurricane Camille in August 1969; during Project Homecoming in early 1973 the wing flew 119 sorties to airlift some 350 U.S. prisoners of war to 26 hospitals in the United States. In October 1973, it served as an aeromedical evacuation center established under wing control at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, assumed the functions previously handled by smaller centers at Scott, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, and Travis Air Force Base, California. In April 1975, when the aeromedical evacuation support units in Germany and the Far East came under the wing's control, it became the single-point manager for worldwide DoD aeromedical evacuation services. It evacuated wounded during the invasion of Grenada, 24 October – 9 November 1983. It transported 350 wounded Afghan citizens to hospitals in the United States, May–December 1987. It controlled the 1467th Facility Checking Squadron from October 1987 – September 1991, which inspected DoD navigation aids and radar facilities worldwide. The wing operated and maintained an aeromedical evacuation system on a rotational basis in Southwest Asia, September 1990 – April 1991. It deployed an aeromedical evacuation element to support Operation Allied Force in 1999.

Lineage

Activated in the Reserve on 27 June 1949
Ordered to active service on 15 October 1950
Inactivated on 14 July 1952
Inactivated on 16 November 1957
Organized on 12 January 1966
Redesignated: 375 Military Airlift Wing on 30 March 1990
Redesignated: 375 Airlift Wing on 1 December 1991.
Redesignated: 375 Air Mobility Wing on 1 October 2009.

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Notes

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

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