9th Airlift Squadron

9th Airlift Squadron
9th Airlift Squadron C-5B 86-0020 is marshalled out of its parking spot for a four-day mission March 8, 2012. This was the last active-duty C-5B mission flown at Dover AFB.
Active	1 January 1938–Present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Airlift
Part of	Air Mobility Command 18th Air Force 436th Airlift Wing 436th Operations Group
Garrison/HQ	Dover Air Force Base, Delaware
Nickname(s)	Proud Pelicans
Engagements	World War II (Asia-Pacific Theater) Korean War Southwest Asia Service Defense of Saudi Arabia Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Commanders
Current commander	Lieutenant Colonel Charles Throckmorton
Insignia
9th Airlift Squadron emblem

The 9th Airlift Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force based at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware and flying the C-5M Super Galaxy.

Mission

The 9th Airlift Squadron (9 AS) provides global reach with unique outsized and oversized airlift capability. The "Proud Pelicans" provide worldwide airlift to meet Department of Defense, Department of State and Presidential mobility requirements. The unit supports global engagement through direct delivery of time-critical theater deployment assets and ensures combat readiness of Air Mobility Command (AMC) active duty C-5 Galaxy airlift crews.

History

The 9th conducted replacement training through 1943, and subsequently aerial transportation in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

It has provided worldwide airlift since 1953. The 9th resupplied scientific camps in Antarctica from 1959–1961, and 1965–1968. It also flew missions to Southeast Asia from 1965–1968, and 1972–1973 and participated in the evacuation of refugees from Southeast Asia in April 1975. The squadron supported operations in Grenada, 24 October 1983 – 11 December 1983; Panama, 19 December 1989 – 14 January 1990; and Southwest Asia, August 1990–July 1991.

Lineage

• Constituted 9th Transport Squadron on 1 Jan 1938

Activated on 1 Dec 1940

Redesignated 9th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942

Inactivated on 15 Oct 1946

• Redesignated 9th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium, on 10 May 1949

Activated in the Reserve on 27 Jun 1949

Ordered to active service on 1 May 1951

Inactivated on 9 May 1951

• Redesignated 9th Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy, on 19 Mar 1953

Activated on 20 Jun 1953

Discontinued, and inactivated, on 18 Jan 1963

• Activated on 13 Nov 1964

Organized on 1 Jan 1965

Redesignated 9th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 Jan 1966

Discontinued, and inactivated, on 8 Sep 1968

• Activated on 1 Apr 1971

Redesignated 9th Airlift Squadron on 1 Dec 1991

Assignments

Stations

Aircraft

Operations

• Operation Neptune
• Operation Deep Freeze
• Operation Urgent Fury
• Operation Just Cause
• Operation Desert Storm
• Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn
• Operation Enduring Freedom

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Air Mobility Command (AMC)
Numbered Air Forces	Eighteenth Air Force
Command Organizations	618th Air and Space Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center) USAF Expeditionary Center Special Air Mission
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Groups	43d Air Mobility Operations 317th Airlift
Wings	Air Base 87th 628th 319th Air Mobility 6th 60th 305th 375th Air Refueling (Tanker) 22d 92d Airlift 19th 62d 89th 436th 437th Air Mobility Operations 515th 521st Contingency Response 621st

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