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98th Operations Group
F-15D and F/A-18E over the Nevada Test Range
Active
1942–1945; 1947–1952; 1992–1994; 2001–present
Country
United States
Branch
United States Air Force
Part of
Air Combat Command
Garrison/HQ
Nellis Air Force Base
Motto(s)
Force for Freedom[1]
Engagements
Mediterranean Theater of Operations Korean War[2]
Decorations
Distinguished Unit Citation Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation[2]
Insignia
98th Operations Group emblem[note 1]
98th Air Refueling Group emblem (approved c. December 1988)[3]
98th Bombardment Group emblem (approved 28 July 1942)[1]
Military unit
The 98th Operations Group is a component unit of the Nevada Test and Training Range, assigned to the United States Air Force Air Combat Command. The group is stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
It provides day-to-day control of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) and directly supports Air Force, joint and multi-national test and training activities; and operates two Air Combat Command bombing ranges; the NTTR and Leach Lake Tactics Range, near Barstow, California.
During World War II, the group's predecessor unit, the 98th Bombardment Group was a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomb group that fought in North Africa and Italy. Two of its members, Colonel John R. (Killer) Kane and First Lieutenant Donald Pucket were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions in combat. The group flew a total of 417 missions, earning a total of 15 battle streamers as well as two Presidential Unit Citations.
In the postwar era, the 98th Bombardment Group was one of the first United States Army Air Forces units assigned to Strategic Air Command (SAC) on 1 July 1947, prior to the establishment of the USAF. Equipped with low-hour Boeing B-29 Superfortress World War II aircraft, it was deployed to Far East Air Force in 1950 and flew combat missions over North Korea early in the Korean War. The group was inactivated in 1952 when the parent wing adopted the Tri-Deputate organization and assigned all of the group's squadrons directly to the wing. It was reactivated in 1987 as the 98th Air Refueling Group, Heavy; as an Air Force Reserve associate unit of the 434th Air Refueling Wing.
^ abMaurer, Combat Units, pp. 68-70
^ abKane, Robert B. (15 July 2010). "Factsheet 98 Operations Group (ACC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
^"Approved insignia for: 98th Air Refueling Group". National Archives Catalog. 22 December 1988. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
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