300th Airlift Squadron


The 300th Airlift Squadron is part of the 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina. It operates Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft supporting the United States Air Force global reach mission worldwide.

Mission

Train and equip C-17 aircrews for global air-land and airdrop operations.

History

World War II

During World War II the 300th airlifted military supplies from India to Allied forces in Burma and China in 1943.

Military Air Transport Service

It flew airlift missions within Japan and to Southeast Asia from 1952 to 1955. The squadron airlifted US ex-prisoners of war from Japan to the U.S. following the Korean War and transported French troops wounded in the First Indochina War from Japan to France and Algeria in 1954.

Air Force Reserve

It has flown worldwide airlift missions since 1969. Specifically, the 300th airlifted U.S. troops to Grenada and U.S. students from Grenada to the U.S. in 1983 and supported the 1989 contingency operation in Panama. Received the Air Force Reserve Aircrew of the Year award twice.

Operations

1991 mobilized for the Gulf War

Lineage

; 100th Air Transport Squadron
  • Constituted as the 100th Transport Squadron on 4 June 1943
  • Reconstituted and redesignated 100th Air Transport Squadron, Medium on 20 June 1952
  • Consolidated with the 300th Military Airlift Squadron as the 300th Military Airlift Squadron on 19 September 1985
; 300th Airlift Squadron
  • Constituted as the 300th Military Airlift Squadron on 31 July 1969

Assignments

Stations

Aircraft