[3] At the same time, the 37th TRW also conducts technical training for security forces, logistics, and professional military education and hosts the English component (DLIELC) of the Defense Language Institute.

These five missions include basic military training of all enlisted recruits entering the Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard; technical training encompassing hundreds of courses for a wide array of career fields and functions; Nursing and Health Services Admin officer courses and enlisted medical courses; English language training for international military personnel attending the Defense Language Institute; and specialized maintenance and security training as well as the International Squadron Officer School and International Non-Commissioned Officer Academy conducted in Spanish by active-duty Airmen for Latin American students attending the Inter-American Air Forces Academy.

[9] Although activated, the wing was neither manned nor equipped and it was inactivated on 25 June as a result of the Armistice in Korea and the subsequent need for deployment to the war zone being unnecessary.

[9] With the escalation of the Vietnam War in 1965–1966, the Air Force reactivated the unit and redesignated it as the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing and activated it on 26 October 1966.

[10]: 65 The 37th Wing was assigned several North American F-100 Super Sabre squadrons, its mission was to provide tactical air power in support of South Vietnamese and United States Army and Marine units engaged in combat against communist forces attempting to overthrow the government of South Vietnam.

On 8 June, Detachment 1 of the 612th Squadron began operations, also after flying a mission en route from their former home at Phan Rang.

They were replaced by Air National Guardsmen from New Jersey and Washington DC, who were manning Myrtle Beach at the time.

[9] In 1969, the Air Force began withdrawing the F-100 from combat duty in South Vietnam, replacing it with the McDonnell F-4D Phantom II.

Two Phantom squadrons were transferred to the 37th from the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing, Da Nang Air Base:[10]: 194 The wing continued its combat operations in South Vietnam until 30 March 1970 when it was inactivated as part of the drawdown of American forces in South Vietnam.

Its mission was to provide pilot transition training to the F-4G Phantom II "Wild Weasel" radar suppression aircraft.

Wing aircrews and ground personnel won the United States Air Force Worldwide Fighter gunnery meet in 1985 and 1987.

[9] As part of the phasedown of operations at George, the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing moved without equipment or personnel to Tonopah Test Range Airport, Nevada on 5 October 1989, and assumed the aircraft, personnel, equipment and mission of the provisional 4450th Tactical Group .

[13] In early 1988, Panama's military dictator, Gen. Manuel Noriega, had been indicted by two Florida grand juries on charges of laundering drug money.

During the May 1989 presidential election campaign, Noriega's "Dignity Battalion" goon squad beat up opposition candidate Guillermo Endara.

Two days later, a coup attempt was made but collapsed when loyalist Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) rescued Noriega.

Two of the planes were targeted on Rio Hato Airfield, two more were to provide support for an attempt to capture Noriega, and the final pair were in-flight spares should any of the others suffer malfunctions.

In spite of the massive Coalition buildup, Saddam Hussein of Iraq refused to withdraw his troops from Kuwait.

Other vital targets included key communications centers, research and development facilities for nuclear and chemical weapons, plus hardened aircraft shelters on Iraqi airfields.

[13] On the first night of combat operations, an F-117A dropped a 2000-pound laser-guided GBU-27 Paveway III bomb right through the roof of the general communications building in downtown Baghdad.

The 43 F-117As of the 37th TFW dropped more than 2000 tons of precision ordnance and attacked some 40 percent of the high-value targets that were struck by the Coalition forces.

After combat operations ceased in February 1991, some wing personnel and aircraft remained on indefinite alert in Saudi Arabia as a component member of the post-Desert Storm task force in Southwest Asia, although most returned to Tonopah by the end of March.

In reviewing its tactical bases and the costs of maintaining them, It was determined that the operations from Tonopah required considerable logistics support via commercial air and trucking.

This was changed when General Merrill McPeak, USAF Chief of Staff, determined that the 49th had a more notable history than the 37th, would remain active and the 37th would be inactivated.

[9] On 8 July 1992, shortly after the inactivation of Tactical Air Command and the activation of Air Combat Command, the assets of the 37th Fighter Wing were moved to Holloman and was it was inactivated; the aircraft, personnel, equipment and mission being transferred to the 49th Fighter Wing.

As a result, the 37th was redesignated the 37th Training Wing and activated at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

The academy had brought its technical training mission to Lackland in August 1992 from the hurricane-wrecked Homestead AFB in Florida.

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