905th Air Refueling Squadron

905th Air Refueling Squadron
KC-135R Stratotanker at Grand Forks Air Force Base
Active	1942–1944; 1959–2010; 2019–Present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Air Refueling
Part of	Air Mobility Command
Decorations	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Insignia
905th Air Refueling Squadron emblem[a][1]
Patch with first 905th Air Refueling Squadron emblem
505th Bombardment Sq emblem[b][2]

The 905th Air Refueling Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve unit. It is presently active as an element of the 931st Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. The squadron was previously inactivated at the end of 2010 when the 319th Air Refueling Wing at Grand Forks Air Force Base lost its operational mission and became the 319th Air Base Wing.

The first predecessor of the squadron was the 505th Bombardment Squadron, which was activated during World War II and served as a Replacement Training Unit until it was inactivated when the Army Air Forces reorganized its training units into Army Air Forces Base Units.

The 905th was organized under Strategic Air Command in 1960 at Grand Forks, where it served as an air refueling unit for the next fifty years under SAC and Air Mobility Command. From 1960 through 1991 the squadron maintained aircraft on alert, prepared to launch in the event the United States went to war. The squadron also refueled Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers flying airborne alert and deployed tankers and crews to the Pacific during the Vietnam War. In 1985 the two squadrons were consolidated.

In 1992 the squadron became an element of Air Mobility Command. It continued to support contingency operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, and Afghanistan until it was inactivated.

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