353rd Combat Training Squadron

353rd Combat Training Squadron
A ground crewman signals 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron A-10 Thunderbolt II to a stop at King Fahd International Airport for Operation Desert Shield
Active1942–1946; 1956–1992; 1993–present
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
RoleTraining
Part ofPacific Air Forces
Garrison/HQEielson Air Force Base
EngagementsWorld War II
1958 Lebanon crisis
Dominican Civil War[1]
Vietnam War
Gulf War
Insignia
353rd Combat Training Squadron emblem (approved 27 August 1957[2]
353rd Fighter Squadron emblem (World War II)
353rd Fighter SquadronNorth American P-51B-1-NA Mustang 43-12457, photo probably taken at RAF Boxted, early 1944.
North American F-100F-10-NA Super Sabre serial 56-3869 of the 353rd TFS. The aircraft is marked as Col. Gabreski's Wing Commander's aircraft.
McDonnell Douglas F-4E-41-MC Phantom 68-0537 of the 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Torrejon Air Base Spain, June 1970
Formation of LTV A-7Ds (S/N 71–234, 70–0987, 71–239 and 71–235) of the 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 354th Tactical Fighter Wing, over Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, S.C. September 1971.
353rd TFS Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D-8-CV Corsair II 70-978, deployed with the 354th TFW to Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. The photo was probably taken in late 1972 prior to takeoff on a combat mission over Indochina.
353rd TFS Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II 76-0541 during an operational deployment to USAFE, 1981.

The 353rd Combat Training Squadron is a United States Air Force training squadron responsible for Exercise RED FLAG – ALASKA held annually in Alaska.

  1. ^ Greenberg, p.44
  2. ^ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 438-439