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{{Infobox Military Unit
|unit_name= 99th Air Refueling Squadron
|image= [[Image:99th Air Refueling Squadron.jpg|200 px]]
|caption= 99th Air Refueling Squadron Patch
|dates= [[15 July]] [[1942]] – [[1 May]] [[1944]] <BR> [[1 July]] [[1957]] – [[30 September]] [[1973]] <BR> [[1 October]] [[1983]] – Present
|country= [[United States]]
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|branch=[[United States Air Force]]
|type= [[Aerial refueling]]
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|command_structure= [[Air Mobility Command]] <BR> [[18th Air Force]] <BR> [[19th Air Refueling Wing]] <BR> 19th Operations Group
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|garrison= [[Little Rock Air Force Base]]
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The ”’99th Air Refueling Squadron”’ (”’99 ARS”’) is part of the [[19th Air Refueling Wing]] at [[Little Rock Air Force Base]], [[Arkansas]]. It operates the [[KC-135 Stratotanker]] aircraft conducting [[aerial refueling]] missions.

==Mission==

==History==

The squadron was an operational training unit from, October-November [[1942]] and a replacement training unit from, December 1942-May [[1943]] and November 1943-April [[1944]]. It conducted Theater and overseas aerial refueling, beginning in [[1958]], including support of operations in [[Southeast Asia]] between [[1965]] and [[1973]]. The 99th also had an airborne command post mission from, 1965-[[1970]]. It has flown worldwide aerial refueling missions since [[1983]] and airborne command post mission between [[1984]] and [[1991]]. <ref name=’AFHRA 99 ARS Page’>[http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10611 AFHRA 99 ARS Page]</ref>

The 99th supported operations in [[Grenada]], 23-24 Oct 1983, [[Panama]], 18-21 Dec 1989, [[Southwest Asia]], Aug 1990-Mar 1991, and over [[Bosnia]], Jan-Feb 1995 and Aug 1996. It Provided personnel and aircraft for refueling aircraft enforcing [[no-fly zone]]s over [[Iraq]] in 1996. In 1997 and 1998, unit resources refueled airplanes flying continuing missions along the border of Iraq in Southwest Asia. In 1998 and 1999, the squadron also supported operations over the former [[Yugoslavia]]. The squadron also refueled aircraft involved in antidrug operations over the [[Caribbean Sea]] in 1998. After the [[September 11 attacks|terrorist attacks]] on [[New York City]] and [[Washington, D.C.]], on 11 September 2001, the squadron supported Operations in [[Afghanistan]] and Iraq, the transportation of [[Taliban]] and [[Al Qaeda]] detainees to [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo Bay]], [[Cuba]], and counter-drug operations in [[South America]]. <ref name=’AFHRA 99 ARS Page’/>

===Operations<ref name=’AFHRA 99 ARS Page’/>===
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*[[World War II]]
*[[Operation Urgent Fury]]
*[[Operation Just Cause]]
*[[Operation Desert Storm]]
*[[Operation Deny Flight]]
*[[Operation Provide Comfort]]
*[[Operation Northern Watch]]
*[[Operation Southern Watch]]
*Operation Phoenix Scorpion
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*[[Operation Desert Thunder]]
*[[Operation Desert Fox]]
*[[Operation Noble Anvil]]
*Operation Deliberate Forge
*[[Operation Allied Force]]
*Operation Constant Vigil
*[[Operation Enduring Freedom]]
*[[Operation Iraqi Freedom]]
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===Lineage<ref name=’AFHRA 99 ARS Page’/>===

*9th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) (1942)
*399th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) (1942 – 1957)
*99th Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy (1957 – 1991)
*99th Air Refueling Squadron (1991 – Present)

==Assignments<ref name=’AFHRA 99 ARS Page’/>==

*88th Bombardment Group (1942 – 1944)
*4050th Air Refueling Wing (1957 – 1963)
*[[499th Air Refueling Wing]] (1963 – 1966)
*99th Bombardment Wing (1966 – 1973)
*[[19th Air Refueling Wing]] (1983 – Present)

==Bases stationed<ref name=’AFHRA 99 ARS Page’/>==
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*[[Salt Lake City]] Army Air Base, [[Utah]] (1942)
*[[Geiger Field]], [[Washington]] (1942)
*[[Rapid City Army Air Base]], [[South Dakota]] (1942)
*[[Walla Walla Army Air Base]], Washington (1942 – 1943)
*[[Redmond Municipal Airport]], [[Oregon]] (1943)
*Madras Army Air Field, Oregon (1943)
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*[[Avon Park Army Air Field]], [[Florida]] (1943 – 1944)
*[[Turner Air Force Base]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] (1957)
*[[Westover Air Force Base]], [[Massachusetts]] (1957 – 1973)
*[[Robins Air Force Base]], Georgia (1983 – 2008)
*[[Little Rock Air Force Base]], [[Arkansas]] (2008 – Present)
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==Aircraft Operated<ref name=’AFHRA 99 ARS Page’/>==

*[[B-17 Flying Fortress]] (1942 – 1944)
*[[KC-135 Stratotanker]] (1957 – 1973, 1983 – Present)
*[[Boeing EC-135|EC-135]] (1965 – 1970, 1984 – 1997)
*EC-137 (1991 – 1994)

==References==

===Notes===

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===Bibliography===

*[http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10611 AFHRA 99th Air Refueling Squadron History]

==Also See==
{{USAF Air Mobility Command}}
{{US Air Force navbox}}

[[Category:Squadrons of the United States Air Force|Air Refueling 0099]]
[[Category:Air refueling units of the United States Air Force]]
[[Category:Military in Arkansas]]