After a month of indoctrination training at Kelly, it moved to the Aviation Concentration Center at Hazelhurst Field, Long Island, New York, where it arrived on 21 September.

[4] After some rest in Le Havre, the squadron then boarded a French train for Issoudun Aerodrome in central France.

The squadron erected wooden barracks, dug ditches for water and sewer lines as well as electricity and telephones.

[4] On 10 March 1918, with the work largely completed at Issodun, the squadron was moved to Air Service Production Center No.

[4] In late December 1918, the squadron was ordered to be demobilized by the Commanding General, Services of Supply, American Expeditionary Forces.

The squadron arrived at Garden City, New York, at the end of January 1919 where it was demobilized and its men returned to civilian life.

[3] The squadron was activated again a little more than three months later at Maxwell Field, Alabama, where it was assigned to the Air Corps Tactical School.

[1][6] The squadron moved to Orlando Army Air Base, Florida the following year, and to Eglin Field on 1 July 1941.

Once training was completed, the squadron moved to Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand to begin operations monitoring movement on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.

[1] The squadron's planes monitored information provided by sensors on the ground that had been delivered by other aircraft or special forces.

These included Air Delivered Seismic Intrusion Detectors, which picked up vibrations in the earth caused by vehicle traffic and transmitted them to the aircraft.

[7] The sensor information was retransmitted by the squadron's aircraft to the infiltration surveillance center located at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP) for Analysis.

[1] The squadron was never active as an intelligence unit, but was redesignated the 54th Airlift Flight and returned to Maxwell Air Force Base, on 1 April 1993.

The primary mission of the 54th Airlift Squadron is safe, comfortable, and reliable transportation of our nation's senior leaders.