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66th Training Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	66th Training Squadron
image	Bail out 170210-F-HU835-171.jpg
image_size	300
caption	Students escape from a simulated crashed aircraft during water survival training
dates	1942–1946; 1947–1951; 1971–present
country
branch
role	survival training
command_structure	Air Education and Training Command
garrison	Fairchild Air Force Base
motto	Learn and Return
battles	Southwest Pacific Theater
decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
identification_symbol	[[File:3614 Combat Crew Training Sq emblem.png	165px]]
identification_symbol_label	66th Training Sq emblemOriginally approved for the 3614th Combat Crew Training Squadron.
identification_symbol_2	[[File:66th Troop Carrier Squadron-emblem.jpg	165px]]
identification_symbol_2_label	66th Troop Carrier Squadron emblemApproved 15 December 1944.

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation

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 1951
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

403d Troop Carrier Group, 12 December 1942
Fifth Air Force, 21 July 1943
54th Troop Carrier Wing, 13 August 1943
433d Troop Carrier Group, 9 November 1943
403d Troop Carrier Group, 20 February 1945 – 15 January 1946
419th Troop Carrier Group, 3 August 1947
403d Troop Carrier Group, 27 June 1949 – 17 April 1951
3636th Combat Crew Training Group (later 336th Crew Training Group, 336th Training Group), 1 April 1971 – present

Stations

Bowman Field, Kentucky, 12 December 1942
Alliance Army Air Field, Nebraska, 18 December 1942
Pope Field, North Carolina, 3 May 1943
Baer Field, Indiana, 18 June – 6 July 1943
Port Moresby Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 21 July 1943
Nadzab Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 25 September 1943 (operated from Tadji Airfield, New Guinea, 12 May – June 1944)
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 – present

Aircraft

Douglas C-47 Skytrain, 1943–1945
Curtiss C-46 Commando, 1944–1945
Stinson L-5 Sentinel, 1945

References

Notes

; Explanatory notes

; Citations

Bibliography

References

Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 249-250
Lineage through May 1963 in Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 249-250.
Mueller, p. 177

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