page_title: 532d Training Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 532d Training Squadron
caption_attribution_description: English: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, Air Force Global Strike Command commander, runs through a procedural checklist during a launch simulation at the 532nd Training Squadron test simulator here Thursday, 6 Dec., 2012. Kowalski was visiting Vandenberg AFB as a special guest speaker for a 532 TRS graduation ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michael Peterson)
context_page_description: The 532d Training Squadron is a United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 381st Training Group at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The squadron was first activated in 1942 as the 532d Bombardment Squadron. After training in the United States, it moved to England and engaged in strategic bombing campaign against Germany with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. In the European Theater of Operations, it earned two Distinguished Unit Citations. It returned to the United States after the war and was inactivated. The squadron was activated briefly in the reserves from 1947-1949, but was not fully manned or equipped.
  From 1963 to 1986, the squadron stood alert with LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles as the 532d Strategic Missile Squadron. It assumed its current training mission in 1994.
context_section_description: The 532d Training Squadron is a United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 381st Training Group at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.  The squadron was first activated in 1942 as the 532d Bombardment Squadron.  After training in the United States, it moved to England and engaged in strategic bombing campaign against Germany with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers.  In the European Theater of Operations, it earned two Distinguished Unit Citations.  It returned to the United States after the war and was inactivated.  The squadron was activated briefly in the reserves from 1947-1949, but was not fully manned or equipped.
  From 1963 to 1986, the squadron stood alert with LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles as the 532d Strategic Missile Squadron.  It assumed its current training mission in 1994.
caption: Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, Air Force Global Strike Command commander, runs a procedural checklist during a launch simulation at the 532d Training Squadron simulator
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