Heavy on 1 February 1978 Redesignated 305th Air Refueling Wing on 1 September 1991 Redesignated 305th Air Mobility Wing on 1 October 1994 Assignments Second Air Force, 2 January 1951 6th Air Division, 10 February 1951 Attached to: 7th Air Division, 4 September – 5 December 1953 Attached to: 5th Air Division, 3 November 1955 – 8 January 1956 and 7 January – 8 March 1957 Second Air Force, 1 June 1959 17th Air Division, 15 July 1959 19th Air Division, 1 January 1961 825th Strategic Aerospace Division, 1 September 1964 42d Air Division, l January 1970 40th Air Division, 1 July 1973 42d Air Division, 1 December 1982 Eighth Air Force, 16 June 1988 Fifteenth Air Force, 1 September 1991 Twenty-First Air Force, 1 July 1993 Eighteenth Air Force, 1 October 2003–present Components Groups 305th Bombardment (later, 305th Operations) Group: 2 January 1951 – 16 June 1952; 1 September 1991 – 15 October 1993; 1 October 1994–present 458th Operations Group: 1 October 1994 – 1 July 1995 Squadrons 3d Airborne Command and Control Squadron: 1 April 1970 – 31 December 1975 68th Air Refueling Squadron: 1 June 1959 – 25 March 1965 70th Air Refueling Squadron: 1 January 1970 – 1 September 1991 305th Air Refueling Squadron: attached 2 July 1951 – 15 June 1952, assigned 16 June 1952 – 1 May 1959 (detached 4 January – c. 16 April 1955); assigned 25 March 1965 – 1 September 1991 364th Bombardment Squadron: attached 10 February 1951 – 15 June 1952, assigned 16 June 1952 – 1 January 1970 365th Bombardment Squadron: attached 10 February 1951 – 15 June 1952, assigned 16 June 1952 – 1 January 1970 366th Bombardment Squadron: attached 10 February 1951 – 15 June 1952, assigned 16 June 1952 – 1 January 1970 422d Bombardment Squadron: 1 January – l October 1959; 8 March 1960 – 15 February 1961. Bases assigned MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, 2 January 1951 – 1 June 1959 Bunker Hill Air Force Base (later Grissom Force Base), Indiana, 1 June 1959 – 1 October 1994 McGuire Air Force Base (part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), New Jersey, 1 October 1994 – present Aircraft operated Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1951–1953 Boeing B-50 Superfortress, 1951–1953 Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker, 1951–1959 Boeing B-47 Stratojet, 1952–1961, (RB-47, 1958) Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, 1959–1993, (EC-135, 1966–1992) Convair B/TB-58A Hustler, 1961–1970 Lockheed C-141B Starlifter, 1994–2004 McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender, 1994–present Boeing