page_title: 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron
caption_attribution_description: English: December 28, 2009 - BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- Airmen welcome the first Air Force MC-12 to be based in Afghanistan. The MC-12 aircraft, tail number 090623, was the first of an undisclosed number of aircraft for the new 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron.
context_page_description: The 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with 455th Expeditionary Operations Group, based at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. It was inactivated on 1 October 2014.
  The squadron was first activated as the 4th Observation Squadron in Puerto Rico in 1941. During World War II it served from island bases in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It remained active after the war as the 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, becoming one of the first jet equipped reconnaissance squadrons in the Air Force before being inactivated in 1949's military budget reductions. It was active again from 1966 to 1971, primarily training crews for the Vietnam War, before its current role as an expeditionary unit, which began in 2005.
context_section_description: The 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.  Its last assignment was with 455th Expeditionary Operations Group, based at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. It was inactivated on 1 October 2014.
  The squadron was first activated as the 4th Observation Squadron in Puerto Rico in 1941.  During World War II it served from island bases in the eastern Caribbean Sea.  It remained active after the war as the 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, becoming one of the first jet equipped reconnaissance squadrons in the Air Force before being inactivated in 1949's military budget reductions.  It was active again from 1966 to 1971, primarily training crews for the Vietnam War, before its current role as an expeditionary unit, which began in 2005.
caption: Airmen welcome the first Air Force MC-12 to be based in Afghanistan[note 1]
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