It served in Alaska during the Aleutian Islands Campaign, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation.

The group consists of approximately 800 personnel, maintains $2.2 billion in F-16 assets and executes a $144 million operations and maintenance budget to carry out F-16 training.

[3][4][5][6] It trained with Curtiss P-36 Hawks and Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, then moved to Everett Army Air Field, where it served as a part of the air defense force for the northwest Pacific coast during the first few months of World War II.

[3][4][5][6] The air echelon, equipped with Bell P-39 Airacobras, served in Alaska against the Japanese forces that invaded the Aleutian Islands during the summer of 1942, and for these operations the group received a Distinguished Unit Citation.

[5] However, the AAF was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving less well adapted to the training mission.

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