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The 56th Fighter Wing (56 FW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Education and Training Command. It is stationed at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona where it also is the host unit. The 56th FW trains F-16 and F-35 fighter pilots and maintainers, qualifies instructors, conducts conversion pilot training, and instructs forward air controllers, all while deploying mission-ready combat pilots. The wing is home to nearly 140 F-16 aircraft and 24 squadrons, six of which are F-16 fighter squadrons, making it the largest fighter wing in the Air Force. The 56th Fighter Wing graduated 430 basic, instructor, and upgrade F-16 pilots and 650 crew chiefs in Fiscal Year 2010. The wing also trains personnel and maintains resources to meet contingency and wartime tasking. The 56th Fighter Wing was first activated on 15 August 1947. The wing's mission was air defense. The unit wrote another chapter in aviation history 14 July 1948, when its F-80 Shooting Stars made the first ever west-to-east crossing of the Atlantic by military jets. The flight was a month after the Soviets set up their blockade of Berlin, and put the Soviets on notice that this nation had the capability to deploy a large package of military aircraft across the Atlantic in minimum time. The 56th was reassigned to Thailand on 16 March 1967. While deployed to Southeast Asia, the 56th not only supported but also conducted unconventional combat operations against an opposing armed enemy force in Laos. ==Units== The 56th Fighter Wing consists of: * 56th Operations Group (OG) * * 56th Operations Support Squadron * * 56th Training Squadron * * 21st Fighter Squadron * * 61st Fighter Squadron * * 62d Fighter Squadron * * 63d Fighter Squadron, Inactive * * 308th Fighter Squadron * * 309th Fighter Squadron * * 310th Fighter Squadron * * 425th Fighter Squadron * 54th Fighter Group (FG), Holloman AFB, NM * * 54th Operations Support Squadron (OSS) * * 54th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) * * 311th Fighter Squadron * * 314th Fighter Squadron * 56th Maintenance Group (MXG) * * 56th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron * * 56th Component Maintenance Squadron * * 56th Equipment Maintenance Squadron * * 756th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron * 56th Mission Support Group (MSG) * * 56th Communications Squadron * * 56th Security Forces Squadron * * 56th Logistics Readiness Squadron * * 56th Civil Engineer Squadron * * 56th Contracting Squadron * * 56th Force Support Squadron * 56th Medical Group (MDG) * * 56th Medical Support Squadron * * 56th Medical Operations Squadron * * 56th Dental Squadron * * 56th Aerospace Medicine Squadron 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「56th Fighter Wing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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