Armed Forces Expeditionary The 6th Airlift Squadron is part of the 305th Air Mobility Wing at the McGuire AFB section of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

It operates the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III supporting the United States Air Force global reach mission worldwide.

Still, it was not activated until 1939, shortly after World War II had begun in Europe and the Air Corps began to expand.

[1] The squadron was allotted to the Fourth Corps Area and partly organized by July 1934 with reserve personnel at Shreveport, Louisiana, and assigned to the 2d Transport Group.

[2] The squadron made airlift history during World War II when, in October 1942, it moved to Port Moresby, New Guinea.