and its refueling squadrons, while physically remaining at Griffiss, were assigned to the 380th Operations Group, Plattsburgh AFB of Air Mobility Command. Wing aircraft carried ACC Tail Code "GR". The wing was inactivated in 1995 due to closure of Griffiss AFB. The 416th transferred the last two of its B-52Hs to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, North Dakota on 15 November 1994 in preparation for inactivation in 1995 with the closure of Griffiss AFB. Post Cold War era The wing became a provisional air expeditionary group as part of the Global War on Terrorism in 2002. It was assigned to Uzbekistan as an Air Combat Command unit in early 2002. There it operated the base, which was used for transshipments of cargo and supplies from United States, for onward tactical airlift to combat forces in Afghanistan fighting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. The group was inactivated in November 2005 after the Uzbek government requested the United States withdraw its forces from their territory. In 2010, the group was upgraded to wing but is not known to have been active under that designation. Lineage 416th Bombardment Group Constituted as 416th Bombardment Group (Light) on 25 January 1943 Activated on 5 February 1943 Redesignated 416th Bombardment Group, Light on 20 August 1943 Inactivated on 24 October 1945 Consolidated with the 416th Bombardment Wing, Heavy on 31 January 1984 as the 416th Bombardment Wing, Heavy 416th Bombardment Wing Constituted as 416th Bombardment Wing, Heavy, on 15 November 1962 Activated on 15 November 1962 Organized on 1 February 1963 Consolidated with the 416th Bombardment Group, Light on 31 January 1984 Redesignated 416th Wing on 1 September 1991 Redesignated 416th Bomb Wing on 1 June 1992 Inactivated on 30 September 1995 Redesignated 416th Air Expeditionary Group, and converted to provisional status, on 3 May 2002 Redesignated 416th Air Expeditionary Wing on 23 February 2010 Assignments III Air Support Command, 5 February 1943 III Bomber Command (attached to II Tactical Air Division 1 November 1943 – 22 November 1943), 6 August 1943 IX Bomber Command ca. 1 February 1944 97th Combat Bombardment Wing (later 97th Bombardment Wing) (under operational control of 99th Combat Bombardment Wing until 20 March 1944, IX Bomber Command, 11–18 September 1944, 99th Combat Bombardment Wing – 28 September 1944), 4 February 1944 Assembly Area Command, c. 27 July 1945 – 24 October 1945 Strategic Air Command, 15 November 1962 6th Air