page_title: 181st Airlift Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 181st Airlift Squadron
caption_attribution_description: English: 181st Airlift Squadron Lockheed C-130H-LM Hercules 85-1365
context_page_description: The 181st Airlift Squadron is a unit of the 136th Airlift Wing of the Texas Air National Guard stationed at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas. The 181st is equipped with the Lockheed C-130H Hercules.
  The squadron was first activated during World War II as the 395th Fighter Squadron. It served in the European Theater of Operations as a fighter bomber unit, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation and the Belgian Fourragère. After the war it became part of the occupation forces in Germany until it was inactivated in August 1946.
  The squadron was allotted to the United States National Guard as the 181st Fighter Squadron and was activated in 1947. It served in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex as a fighter squadron until the early 1960s, when it assumed an air refueling mission, which continued until 1978, and has been an airlift unit since then.
context_section_description: The 181st Airlift Squadron is a unit of the 136th Airlift Wing of the Texas Air National Guard stationed at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas. The 181st is equipped with the Lockheed C-130H Hercules.
  The squadron was first activated during World War II as the 395th Fighter Squadron.  It served in the European Theater of Operations as a fighter bomber unit, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation and the Belgian Fourragère.  After the war it became part of the occupation forces in Germany until it was inactivated in August 1946.
  The squadron was allotted to the United States National Guard as the 181st Fighter Squadron and was activated in 1947.  It served in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex as a fighter squadron until the early 1960s, when it assumed an air refueling mission, which continued until 1978, and has been an airlift unit since then.
caption: 181st Airlift Squadron Lockheed C-130H-LM Hercules 85-1365
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