Talk:157th Air Refueling Wing

Copyvio

The tag for the copyvio should be modified. The document URL indicates it is a public document published by the US military. The real problem is the (typical) lack of attribution to the source document. --Lineagegeek (talk) 21:25, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Group redesignation 1960

The group redesignation in 1960 is documented in an issue of Air Pictorial, which ran an article on a unit history in each issue (at least back in the day). Mostly RAF squadrons, but they did a US unit every now and then. I've had trouble digging my old issues out (other units covered that I recall were the 31st Fighter Group and 394th Bombardment Group -- as the 106th Aeromedical Transport Group). This type of thing is one of the reasons that AFHRA refuses to track ANG lineages.

A lot of this was in a garbled manner in the earlier version of the 101st Air Refueling Wing, which, like most of the articles on the 27 groups allotted to the Guard in 1946, is a garbled history of the group and the 27 wings formed in 1950. Starting with the group, it was formed with squadrons in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont with group HQ (and the 201st Air Service Gp HQ) in Maine. The 101st Wing was formed in 1950 (consistently missed in these articles is the fact that for the groups called into federal service in 1950, the wings and support units with the same number were activated in the regular air force, and not returned to state control in 1952/1953, but allotted to the Guard for the first time. Some, like the first 106th Air Refueling Squadron, were never allotted to the Guard). Anyway, the 101st was returned to the Guard as before. However, the group was withdrawn from Maine and transferred to Vermont in 1954. Starting in the Spring of 1956, Guard units gained by Air Defense Command began to transition to the organizational model ADC had been using since 1953, with a regional air defense wing commanding air defense groups (fighter groups (Air Defense) after 1955). At the same time the group was withdrawn from the Vermont ANG, which replaced it with the 158th Fighter Group (AD), while the group became the 101st Fighter Group (AD) in the New Hampshire ANG. The Maine squadron and support units (each group had a materiel squadron, an air base squadron and a USAF dispensary -- the wing had these, too, dropping its previous Air Base Group, Maintenance & Supply Group and Tactical Hospital) were assigned directly to the wing. In 1960, the New Hampshire unit converted to airlift. The 101st Fighter Group (AD) was not withdrawn from New Hampshire, but had to be renumbered when a Fighter Group was formed at Dow under the 101st Air Defense Wing and (being on the same station as the wing) given the same number as the wing.

I see that Air Pictorial has quite an archive online, but it's not handy to use if you don't have the exact issue since going back takes you to more resent issues and the old ones have to reload. I'll add the cite when I locate it, since my paper copies of the magazine are nearby somewhere. --Lineagegeek (talk) 22:49, 20 November 2015 (UTC)