a Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk/Guardian Angel rescue squadron, a Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call electronic combat squadron and an aeromedical evacuation flight. It also oversees support functions such as air traffic control, intelligence, weather, radar monitoring and landing systems, airfield management and command and control equipment at forward-operating bases. 83d Expeditionary Rescue Squadron (Boeing CH-47 Chinook) 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (Lockheed C-130 Hercules) 41st Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron (Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call) Rotational Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon) 555th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron April–October 2015 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron October 2015 – April 2016. 457th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron April–October 2016. 93d Expeditionary Fighter Squadron April–October 2016. 79th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron October 2016 – April 2017. 555th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron April–October 2017 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron October 2017 – April 2018 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group. The group provides services in support of coalition forces throughout Afghanistan. It is composed of five squadrons responsible for communications, civil engineer operations, force support, logistics readiness, and security forces. 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron 455th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron 455th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron 455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group. The group provides combat-ready aircraft and munitions in support of coalition forces throughout Afghanistan. The group comprises two squadrons responsible for on- and off-aircraft maintenance and sortie generation of F-15E, F-16 and C-130 aircraft, as well as launch, recovery, and servicing support for military and commercial transient aircraft. 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron 455th Expeditionary Medical Group. The group is the Air Force component for Task Force Med, which provides combat medical and combat medical support services to U.S. and coalition forces throughout Afghanistan. Along with the U.S. Army, the group staffs Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram. 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron 455th Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron 451st Air Expeditionary Group: The group operates the Northrop Grumman E-11, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper at Kandahar and Jalalabad Airfields. History World War II Training in the United States The group was first activated at Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico on 1 June 1943 as the 445th Bombardment Group, with the 740th, 741st, 742d and 743d Bombardment Squadrons assigned. The initial cadre for the group was drawn from the 302d Bombardment Group. In July, a cadre was given advanced tactical training by the