Green Municipal Airport in Warwick, was scheduled to replace its aging F-51D Mustang interceptors to F-84 Thunderjets.

Unable to resolve these differences and no suitable location in the state to move the squadron, the Air Force removed the jets from the state and the National Guard Bureau transferred the 152nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron to the Arizona Air National Guard.

The "new" 152nd FIS was activated as a new Arizona Air National Guard organization with no prior history or lineage; the 143d Air Resupply Squadron was bestowed the lineage and history of the inactivated Rhode Island ANG 152nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron.

[citation needed] Upon the unit's activation in Tucson, the 152nd was equipped with F-86A Sabre day fighters to use as interceptors.

At that time of its arrival, its facilities at Tucson Municipal Airport consisted of an old adobe farmhouse and a dirt-floor hangar with enough space for three aircraft.

[4] The F-100s were being transferred to the Air National Guard, which was upgrading from Republic F-84 Thunderjets and North American F-86 Sabres.

[3][5] Shortly afterward, the unit formed the Air National Guard F-100 Fighter Weapons School in Tucson.

This school taught Air Guard and Reserve fighter pilots from throughout the country to effectively use advanced tactics and weapons technology.

Because the unit was a training school, its aircraft were flown much heavily than other ANG squadrons which were also more demanding and stressful on the airframes.

[7] Initially pilots in the program were sent to Tucson for a quick refresher course in A-7Ds that included academics, simulator time and six or seven flights to re-qualify them in the Corsair.

In recent years these airframes have been further upgraded with the CCIP program to make it possible for them to reach 8,000 flying hours easily.

were added to these airframes to further modernize their operations and make it possible to adjust the training sequence to include these advanced electronics.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency