in various exercises, operations, and readiness tests of TAC, and trained pilots and provided logistical support for the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing. Reorganized as a mission-capable unit at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, it returned afterwards to a training mission. With the departure of the 12th TFW in 1965, the 15th TFW became the host unit at MacDill with the unit's mission becoming a formal training unit for F-4 aircrews prior to their deployment to Southeast Asia. The wing deployed 16 F-4s to Seymour Johnson AFB, NC, during the USS Pueblo crisis in 1968. In 1965, the wing deployed its 43rd, 45th, 46th, and 47th Tactical Fighter Squadrons to Southeast Asia, where they participated in the air defense commitment for the Philippines from Clark AB and flew combat missions from Cam Rahn Bay Air Base in South Vietnam and Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Members of the 45th TFS achieved the first U.S. Air Force aerial victories of the Vietnam War when they destroyed two MiGs on 10 July 1965. Captains Thomas S. Roberts, Ronald C. Anderson, Kenneth E. Holcombe, and Arthur C. Clark received credit for these kills. Beginning on 8 February 1969, the 13th Bombardment Squadron, Tactical, began Martin B-57G (Tail Code: FK) light bomber aircrew training at MacDill. The squadron was inactivated on 1 October 1970 and redesignated as the 4424th Combat Crew Training Squadron. Also in 1970, U.S. Strike Command was renamed United States Readiness Command. The 43rd TFS was reassigned to Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, on 4 January 1970 and the 15th TFW was inactivated on 1 October 1970, being replaced by the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing (1st TFW). Cuban Missile Crisis During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, these units were deployed to MacDill AFB in addition to the assigned 12th and 15th TFWs in preparation for planned airstrikes on Cuba: 27th Tactical Fighter Wing, 60 F-100s(Deployed from Cannon AFB, New Mexico) 363d Tac Reconnaissance Wing, 33 RF-101s, 31 RB-66s(Deployed from Shaw AFB, South Carolina) 622d Air Refueling Squadron, 20 KB-50Js(Aerial tankers deployed from England AFB, Louisiana) The MacDill-based 12th and 15th Tactical Fighter Wings were subsequently designated as the 836th Air Division. The 836th AD was committed to provide 100 sorties in the planned first strike. They were to also press napalm and rocket attacks against surface-to-air missile sites at Mariel and Sagua La Grande, as well as