2nd Operations Group

2d Operations Group
B-52H Stratofortress of the 20th Bomb Squadron
Active	10 September 1918 – present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Group
Role	Bombardment
Part of	Air Force Global Strike Command
Garrison/HQ	Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana
Motto(s)	Libertatem Defendimus Latin Liberty We Defend
Tail Code	"LA"
Engagements	World War I St. Mihiel Offensive Campaign Meuse-Argonne Offensive Campaign World War II American Theater Antisubmarine Campaign EAME Theater Tunisia Campaign Sicily Campaign Naples-Foggia Campaign Anzio Campaign Rome-Arno Campaign Normandy Campaign Northern France Campaign Southern France Campaign North Apennines Campaign Rhineland Campaign Central Europe Campaign Po Valley Campaign Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Iraqi Freedom
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Steyr, Austria, 24 Feb 1944 Germany, 25 Feb 1944 Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (5x)
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Jesse W. Lamarand
Notable commanders	Lewis H. Brereton Robert Olds Harold L. George John D. Ryan James M. Kowalski Darr H. Alkire
Insignia
2d Operations Group emblem
Aircraft flown
Bomber	B-52H Stratofortress

The 2d Operations Group (2 OG) is the flying component of the United States Air Force 2d Bomb Wing, assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force. The group is stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.

2 OG is one of two Air Force Global Strike Command groups to fly the B-52H Stratofortess. Its mission is to protect the United States and further its global interests by providing devastating combat capability.

The group is a successor organization to 2d Bombardment Group, one of the 15 original combat air groups formed by the Army before World War II. It is the oldest bomb group of the Air Force, having fought on the Western Front during World War I, entering combat on 12 September 1918. After the war, it participated in Brigadier General Billy Mitchell's 1921-1923 off-shore bombing tests.^[1] During World War II the group engaged in combat from bases in North Africa and Italy flying B-17 Flying Fortress.

In the postwar era, the 2d Bombardment Group was one of the first USAAF units assigned to the Strategic Air Command on 1 July 1947, prior to the establishment of the United States Air Force. Equipped with low-hour B-29 Superfortress surplus World War II aircraft, 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.

Reactivated as the 2d Operations Group in 1991 when the 2d Bomb Wing adopted the USAF Objective organization plan.