page_title: 909th Tactical Airlift Group
section_title: Activation of 908th Troop Carrier Group
hierarchical_section_title: 909th Tactical Airlift Group / History / Activation of 908th Troop Carrier Group
context_page_description: The 909th Tactical Airlift Group is an inactive United States Air Force Reserve unit. It was last active with the 459th Tactical Airlift Wing at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, where it was inactivated on 1 September 1975.
context_section_description: As a result, the 908th Troop Carrier Group was established at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland on 11 February 1963, as the headquarters for the 756th Troop Carrier Squadron, which had been stationed there since June 1954. Along with group headquarters, a Combat Support Squadron, Materiel Squadron and a Tactical Hospital were organized to support the 754th.
  The group's mission was to organize, recruit and train Air Force Reserve personnel in the tactical airlift of airborne forces, their equipment and supplies and delivery of these forces and materials by airdrop, landing or cargo extraction systems.   The group was equipped with Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars for Tactical Air Command airlift operations.
  The 909th was one of three C-119 groups assigned to the 459th Troop Carrier Wing in 1963, the others being the 910th Troop Carrier Group at Youngstown Municipal Airport, Ohio, and the 911th Troop Carrier Group at Pittsburgh International Airport, Pennsylvania.
  Re-equipped 1966 with long-range Douglas C-124 Globemaster II heavy airlifter, performed intercontinental strategic airlift for Military Air Transport Service.  Converted to the C-130 Hercules theater transport in 1971 as part of the phaseout of the Globemaster, Assigned Tail Code "QA".  The Group participated in air transport of airborne forces, equipment and supplies with delivery by airdrop, extraction, and airlanding, as well as air evacuation within a theater of operations.
  Inactivated in 1975 as part of the phasedown after the Vietnam War, Personnel and equipment reassigned directly to the 459th Wing at Andrews.
caption: Douglas C-124C Globemaster II 52-1066 of the 909th Military Airlift Group[note 1]
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