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38th Combat Support Wing
Royal Air Force cadets training with the wing's 38th Construction & Training Squadron
38th Combat Support Wing emblem (approved 4 November 2004)[1]
Patch with 38th Tactical Missile Wing emblem (approved 11 December 1958)[2]
38th Bombardment Wing emblem (approved 16 April 1954)[3]
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The 38th Combat Support Wing is an inactive wing of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with Third Air Force at Ramstein Air Base, Germany from 2004 until 2007. The mission of the wing was to enhance support to Third Air Force's geographically separated units.
The Wing was first activated in Japan in 1948 as the 38th Bombardment Wing, carrying on the history of the 38th Bombardment Group, which was one of the first Army Air Forces units to operate in the Pacific Theater after Pearl Harbor. The wing served as a light bomber unit in Japan until 1949, when it was inactivated. It was activated again in Europe in 1953.
In 1958, the wing became the 38th Tactical Missile Wing and controlled Martin TM-61 Matador and Martin MGM-13 Mace missile units in Germany until it was inactivated in 1966.
Between 1972 and 1975 the wing was twice active as a flying training unit. It returned to the tactical missile mission in Europe until its missiles were withdrawn following the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. From 1990 to 1994, as the 38th Engineering Installation Wing it was responsible for the Air Force's in house design and installation of electronic equipment.
^ abRobertson, Patsy (4 June 2008). "Factsheet 38 Combat Support Wing (USAFE)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
^Ravenstein, pp. 66–67
^Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 54 93–94
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