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The 314th Air Refueling Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit within the Air Force Reserve Command. It is currently assigned to the 940th Air Refueling Wing, based at Beale Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 July 2009 and reactivated on 1 June 2016.[3]
314th Air Refueling Squadron
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.jpg) KC-135R as flown by the squadron | |
| Active | 1943–1946 1949–1951 1952–2009; 2016–present |
| Country |  United States |
| Branch |  United States Air Force |
| Role | Air refueling |
| Part of | Air Force Reserve Command |
| Garrison/HQ | Beale Air Force Base |
| Motto(s) | Strength and Persistence |
| Mascot(s) | Pegasus Burro ("PegBur")[1] |
| Engagements | European Theater of Operations Operation Noble Anvil Desert Storm[2] |
| Decorations | Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm[2] |
| Insignia | |
| 314th Air Refueling Squadron emblem (approved 28 September 1961)[2] |  |
It operates the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft conducting aerial refueling missions.
Activated in late 1943 as a Douglas C-47 Skytrain troop carrier squadron, trained under I Troop Carrier Command in the United States. Was not deployed until the spring of 1945 to England, being assigned to the IX Troop Carrier Command. Was not used in combat operations, however did transport supplies and equipment to the front-line ground forces primarily into Germany and evacuated casualties to rear areas. Returned to the United States in September 1945 and was a transport squadron for Continental Air Forces until its inactivation in September 1946.
It trained in the reserve for troop carrier missions from, 1949–1951, for fighter-bomber missions from, 1952–1957, and resumed its current role as an airlift squadron in 1957 until 1976.[2]
The squadron has performed air refueling missions worldwide since 1977 and maintained an alert responsibility for Strategic Air Command until the command's inactivation in June 1992. It deployed aircraft and personnel to Saudi Arabia and European locations in support of the Gulf War and later contingency operations in Somalia and the Balkans.[2]
The squadron was inactivated in 2009 pursuant to 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission action that eliminated the 940th Air Refueling Wing's KC-135 flying mission and redesignated it as the 940th Wing as an associate unit to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing in support of RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted (e.g., unmanned) aircraft operations. In 2016, the wing returned to its former designation as an air refueling wing and reacquired its manned flying mission and KC-135R aircraft, with the reactivation of the squadron occurring the same year.[2]
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