Danang by a Vietcong 122mm rocket. Lineage Constituted as the 37th Air Rescue Squadron on 17 October 1952 Activated on 14 November 1952 Inactivated on 8 May 1955 Redesignated 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron and activated on 14 December 1965 (not organized) Organized on 8 January 1966 Inactivated on 29 December 1972 Activated on 1 October 1973 Redesignated 37th Air Rescue Squadron on 1 June 1989 Redesignated 37th Rescue Squadron on 1 February 1993 Redesignated 37th Rescue Flight on 1 May 1993 Redesignated 37th Helicopter Flight on 1 May 1998 Redesignated 37th Helicopter Squadron on 21 October 2005 Assignments 3d Air Rescue Group: 14 November 1952 – 8 May 1955 Military Air Transport Service: 14 December 1965 (not organized) Military Airlift Command: 1 January 1966 (not organized) 3d Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group: 8 January 1966 41st Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing: 20 August 1972 – 29 December 1972 (remained under operational control of 3rd Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group) Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service: 1 October 1973 39th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing: 1 July 1978 41st Rescue and Weather Reconnaissance Wing: 1 February 1987 Air Rescue Service: 1 August 1989 90th Operations Group: 1 February 1993 (attached to 20th AF Helicopter Operations Group (Provisional) after 1 August 2014) 582d Helicopter Group, 15 January 2015 – present Stations Komaki Air Base, Japan, 14 November 1952 Yokota Air Base, Japan, 23 July 1954 – 8 May 1955 Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, 8 January 1966 – 29 December 1972 Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand (1966–1968) Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, 1 October 1973 – present Aircraft Boeing SB-29 Superfortress (1952–1955) Douglas SC-47 Skytrain (1952–1954) Lockheed HC-130 Hercules (1966-1967) Grumman HU-16 Albatross (1966–1967) Sikorsky HH-3 Jolly Green Giant (1967–1970) Sikorsky HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant (1970–1972) Kaman HH-43 Huskie (1971–1972) Bell UH-1 Iroquois (1973–present) Bell HH-1 Iroquois (1974–1993) Bell TH-1 Iroquois (1974–1987) See also List of Douglas C-47 Skytrain operators List of Lockheed C-130 Hercules operators List of United States Air Force helicopter squadrons List of United States Air Force rescue squadrons References Notes Bibliography Military units and formations in Wyoming Helicopter squadrons of the United States Air Force Military units and formations established in 1952