I Troop Carrier Command

I Troop Carrier Command
Airborne troops and a jeep coming out of a CG-4A Waco glider, during a training exercise in 1944
Active	1942–1945
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army  United States Air Force[note 1]
Role	Airlift training
Motto(s)	Vincit Qui Primum Gerit Latin He Conquers Who Gets There First
Engagements	American Theater of World War II
Insignia
Patch with I Troop Carrier Command emblem[note 2][1]

The I Troop Carrier Command is a disbanded United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Continental Air Forces, at Stout Field, Indiana, where it was disbanded in November 1945, and its resources transferred to IX Troop Carrier Command.

The command trained units aircrews for the theater airlift mission. It also trained aeromedical evacuation units and airlift units supporting special forces It was assigned directly to Army Air Forces (AAF) headquarters for the majority of the war, and was reassigned to Continental Air Forces in the spring of 1945. The command coordinated its activity with the Army Air Forces Training Command, from which it drew its crews. It conducted operational training, shifting to replacement training later in the war The troop carrier units and crews it produced served in all overseas combat theaters.

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