Air Force Base, Oklahoma, but was inactivated in December of the following year. The squadron was activated again at Vance in 1997, but this time as a reserve unit. As an associate unit, it trains pilots and pilot instructors alongside the active duty members of the 71st Flying Training Wing. Lineage Constituted as the 5th Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) on 20 November 1940 Activated on 15 January 1941 Redesignated 5th Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1942 Inactivated on 7 November 1945 Activated on 9 November 1946 Redesignated 5th Fighter Squadron, All Weather on 10 May 1948 Redesignated 5th Fighter-All Weather Squadron on 20 January 1950 Redesignated 5th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 1 May 1951 Inactivated on 1 July 1988 Redesignated 5th Flying Training Squadron on 1 January 1990 Activated on 16 February 1990 Inactivated on 15 December 1991 Redesignated 5th Flying Training Flight and activated in the reserve on 1 April 1997 Redesignated 5th Flying Training Squadron on 1 April 1998 Assignments 52d Fighter Group: 15 Jan 1941 – 7 Nov 1945 52d Fighter Group (later 52d Fighter-All Weather Group, 52d Fighter-Interceptor Group): 9 November 1946 4709th Defense Wing: 6 February 1952 568th Air Defense Group: 16 Feb 1953 4709th Defense Wing (later 4709th Air Defense Wing): 8 July 1954 52d Fighter Group: 18 August 1955 32d Fighter Group: 1 February 1960 32d Fighter Wing: 1 February 1961 Minot Air Defense Sector: 1 July 1962 Great Falls Air Defense Sector: 25 June 1963 28th Air Division: 1 April 1966 24th Air Division: 19 November 1969 25th Air Division: 1 June 1983 Northwest Air Defense Sector: 1 December 1987 – 1 July 1988 71st Flying Training Wing: 16 February 1990 – 15 December 1991 610th Regional Support Group: 1 April 1997 340th Flying Training Group: 1 April 1998 – present Stations Selfridge Field, Michigan. 15 January 1941 Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, 17 December 1941 Selfridge Field, Michigan, 14 January 1942 Florence Army Air Field, South Carolina, 18 February 1942 Bluethenthal Field, North Carolina, 27 April 1942 Grenier Field, New Hampshire, 12 June 1942 – 19 July 1942 Northern Ireland, 19 August 1942 RAF Goxhill, England, 26 August 1942 – 27 October 1942 Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria, 8 November 1942 (air echelon only) La Senia Airfield, Algeria, 12 November 1942 Orleansville Airfield, Algeria, 1 January 1943 Telergma Airfield, Algeria, 19 January 1943 Youks-les-Bains Airfield, Algeria, 8 March 1943 Le Sers Airfield, Tunisia, 12 April