The squadron also refueled Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers flying airborne alert and deployed tankers and crews to the Pacific during the Vietnam War.

[2][3] The following month, the squadron moved to Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Kansas, where it briefly acted as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator Operational Training Unit (OTU).

[2] However, the Army Air Forces found that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization, were proving less well adapted to the training mission.

Accordingly, it adopted a more functional system in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit,[5] while the groups and squadrons acting as RTUs were disbanded or inactivated.

[10] The 4133d wing was established by SAC in a program to disperse its Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making it more difficult for the Soviet Union to knock out the entire fleet with a surprise first strike.

Operating from its home station, the unit refueled the SAC airborne command post, code named Looking Glass.

[1][c] The efforts of the 905th enabled aeromedical evacuation missions to be flown directly to medical facilities in the United States from Panama.

[18] Under AMC control, the unit supported Operation Deny Flight, the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1994 and 1995 from Pisa Airport, Italy and Istres Air Base, France.

[21] It supported Operation Uphold Democracy, the United States action to remove the military junta and restore the elected president of Haiti in 1995.

[22] In 1996 the squadron deployed planes and crews to Riyadh Air Base, Saudi Arabia for Operation Southern Watch, the Southwest Asia Task Force operation to monitor and control airspace in southern Iraq, as an element of Air Expeditionary Force III.

[24] After 1998, the unit participated in Operation Joint Forge, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to provide stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina.