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65th Air Base Group
65th Medical Squadron Airmen medevac US Navy Sailor
The group provides base and en route support for the U.S. Department of Defense, allied nations and other authorized aircraft in transit, including those from the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Colombia, Germany, Venezuela and Great Britain.
The 65th was first organized at Mitchel Air Force Base, New York as the 65th Troop Carrier Wing in 1952. It conducted "reserve training toward proficiency with troop carrier aircraft from 1952–1953. However, the wing was never fully manned or equipped."[4]
The 1605th Military Airlift Support Wing replaced the 1605th Air Base Wing as the Military Airlift Command unit managing facilities at Lajes Field in January 1982. Ten years later, the two units were consolidated as the 65th Support Wing.[4]
It has "provided en route support for aircraft transiting Lajes Air Base from 1982 to the present." Its commander also serves as Commander, United States Forces Azores. The unit also "provided base support to elements of the United States Army and U.S. Navy in the area." The 65th "supported deployment of personnel and equipment through Lajes during operations in the Persian Gulf from August 1990 – April 1991"[4] and in support of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (Operation Enduring Freedom) and the War in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) since 2001 and 2003 respectively.
On 14 August 2015, the wing was redesignated as a group and reassigned to the 86th Airlift Wing.[5]
65th Air Base Group (later 1605th Air Base Group, 65th Support Group, 65th Mission Support Group), 14 June 1952 – 1 April 1953, 1 January 1982 – 14 August 2015
65th Logistics Group, 27 January 1992 – c. 1997
65th Medical Group (later USAF Hospital, Lajes, 65th Medical Group), 14 June 1952 – 1 April 1953, 1 January 1982 – present
Squadrons
65th Civil Engineer Squadron, 14 August 2015 – present
↑ Approved 6 August 1987. Description: Per saltire, Gules, Argent, Vert, and Azure, a saltire Or; in base a demi-globe of the fourth [color]; thereon an eagle with wings displayedproper; in chief an arc of seven mullets, four and three of the second [color]. Robertson erroneously gives the date of approval as 15 June 2007, the date the group emblem was approved.
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