page_title: George Air Force Base
section_title: 37th Tactical Fighter Wing
hierarchical_section_title: George Air Force Base / Secondary USAF Wings assigned / 37th Tactical Fighter Wing
caption_attribution_description: English: 562d Tactical Fighter Training Squadron McDonnell Douglas F-4E-43-MC Phantom 69-7234, after modification to F-4G "Wild Weasel" electronic warfare configuration. 7234 (c/n 3902) loaned to Australia (1970-73)as A69-7234. Damaged in landing accident 10/19/1970 at Amberley QLD. Repaired and reflown 9/71. Returned to USAF 10/25/1972 and modified as F-4G. To AMARC as FP761 9/20/1991. Converted to QF-4G AF212 Aug 31, 1999.
context_page_description: George Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, 8 miles northwest, of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California.
  Established by the United States Army Air Corps as an Advanced Flying School in June 1941, it was closed at the end of World War II. It was again activated as a training base by the United States Air Force with the outbreak of the Korean War in November 1950. It remained a training base throughout the Cold War and in the immediate post-Cold War period, primarily for the Tactical Air Command and later the Air Combat Command, training USAF, NATO and other Allied pilots and weapon systems officers in front-line fighter aircraft until being closed in 1993.
  George AFB was closed pursuant to a decision by the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission at the end of the Cold War. It is now the site of the Southern California Logistics Airport. Since 2009, the California Air National Guard's 196th Reconnaissance Squadron has operated an MQ-1 Predator Remotely Piloted Aircraft training facility at the site.
context_section_description: The 37th was reactivated on 30 March 1981 by Tactical Air Command at George Air Force Base, California. Its mission was to provide pilot transition training to the F-4G Phantom II "Wild Weasel" RADAR suppression aircraft. The mission was transferred to the 37th from the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing, which was TAC's primary F-4E Phantom II training organization in a mission realignment. Both wings were under the TAC's 831st Air Division.  Assigned squadrons of the 37th (Tail Code: "WW") at George AFB were:
  561st Tactical Fighter Squadron: 30 March 1981 – 5 October 1989 (Yellow Tail Stripe)
  562nd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron: 30 March 1981 – 5 October 1989 (Blue Tail Stripe)
  As the only "Wild Weasel" training wing in the world, it provided instructor pilots and qualified aircrews for the other two "Wild Weasel" wings in the Philippines (3d TFW) and West Germany (52d TFW). As part of the training mission, the wing participated in numerous tactical, maritime, and  electronic warfare exercises locally and worldwide in hunter/killer tactics, suppression of enemy air defenses, force escort operations and dissimilar air combat training with Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve squadrons, and various allies. Wing aircrews and ground personnel won the United States Air Force Worldwide Fighter gunnery meet in 1985 and 1987.
  In 1988, George AFB was scheduled in the first round of base closures passed by Congress under the Base Realignment and Closure program. On 5 October 1989, the 37th TFW turned over F-4G aircraft to the host 35th TFW at George AFB.
caption: 562nd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron McDonnell Douglas F-4G Phantom II, AF Ser. No. 69-7234
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