1 Special Operations Maintenance Squadron (AFSOC)

Lineage.   Constituted as 16 Mobile Reclamation & Repair Squadron on 25 Oct 1943.  Activated on 1 Nov 1943.  Redesignated as 16 Mobile Reclamation & Repair Squadron, Heavy, on 17 Jul 1944.  Inactivated on 21 Nov 1945.  Disbanded on 8 Oct 1948.  Reconstituted, and redesignated as 16 Aircraft Generation Squadron on 31 Jul 1985.  Activated on 1 Oct 1995.  Redesignated as 16 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron on 1 Oct 2002; 1 Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron on 16 Nov 2006.

 

Assignments.  VIII Air Force Service Command, 1 Nov 1943 (attached to VIII Air Technical Service Command [Provisional] 20 Jul-12 Aug 1945); 3 Air Division, 12 Aug-21 Nov 1945.  16 Logistics (later, 16 Maintenance; 1 Special Operations Maintenance) Group, 1 Oct 1995-.

 

Stations.  Wattisham, England, 31 Dec 1943; Hitcham, England, 1 May 1944-21 Nov 1945.  Hurlburt Field, FL, 1 Oct 1995-.

 

Service Streamers.  World War II European-African-Middle Eastern Theater.

 

Campaign Streamers. None.

 

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers.  None.

 

Decorations.  Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards with Combat "V" Device:  1 Jun 1997-31 May 1999; 1 Jul 2003 – 30 Jun 2005; 1 Jul 2005-30 Jun 2006; 1 Jul 2006-30 Jun 2007.   Meritorious Unit Awards: 1 Jul 2007-30 Jun 2009; 1 Oct 2009-30 Sep 2011; 1 Oct 2011-30 Sep 2013; 1 Oct 2013-30 Sep 2015.  Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards:  1 Jul 1999-30 Jun 2001; 1 Jul 2001-30 Jun 2003; 1 Jul 2004 – 1 Jun 2006. 

 

Lineage, Assignments, Stations, and Honors through 14 Nov 2016.

 

Supersedes statement prepared on 10 Sep 2013.

 

Emblem.  Approved on 11 Jul 1996; latest rendering, 20 Jun 2018

 

Prepared by Major Tonia Stephens.

 

Reviewed by Carl E. Bailey.