66th Training Squadron

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 in the reserve on 3 August 1947
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'''

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, 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
Mokmer Airfield, Biak, Netherlands East Indies, 18 November 1944
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