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Content: TAC ordered the 136th Fighter Group to Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, where the unit was re-designated to a Fighter-Bomber unit, and its status was changed to a Wing. At Langley, the 136th Fighter-Bomber Wing consisted of the following units: 111th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
182d Fighter-Bomber Squadron
154th Fighter-Bomber Squadron(Arkansas ANG). 136th FBW F-84E Thunderjet at Taegu Air Force Base (K-2), South Korea
At Langley AFB, the 136th trained with their F-51D Mustangs. Unfortunately losing two 111th FBS pilots in a training accident on 15 December. A third pilot was killed on 27 January 1951 in another accident. In February 1951, the aged F-51Ds that the unit had been flying since its activation in 1947 were replaced by F-84E Thunderjets, and the squadron began transition training on the jet fighter-bomber. Most of the training took place at Langley, although some pilots were sent to Shaw AFB, South Carolina. Maintenance crews, all new to jet aircraft, were trained at Langley and engine specialists were sent to the Allison plant in Indianapolis. Assigned to the Arkansas ANG154th FBS at the time was a Navy exchange pilot, future NASAastronaut Lieutenant Walter Schirra(who happened to be the only pilot assigned to the 136th at the time who was a qualified jet pilot).