307th Bomb Wing The 307th Bomb Wing ( 307 BW ) is an Air Reserve Component ( ARC ) of the United States Air Force . It is assigned to the Tenth Air Force , Air Force Reserve Command , stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base , Louisiana . The 307th BW is an associate unit of the 2d Bomb Wing , Air Force Global Strike Command ( AFGSC ) and if mobilized the wing is gained by AFGSC . Overview . The 307th Bomb Wing is the only reserve unit that operates the B - 52H Stratofortress . The 307 BW employs approximately 1 , 600 Air Force Reservists in a combination of full - time Active Guard & Reserve ( AGR ) and Air Reserve Technician ( ART ) and part - time Traditional Reservist ( TR ) personnel . The 307th Strategic Wing ( 307th SW ) was last assigned to the Strategic Air Command , 3d Air Division , being stationed at U - Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield , Thailand . It was inactivated on 30 September 1975 . Units . The 307th Bomb Wing consists of the following major units : History . The 307th replaced the 94th Combat Bombardment Wing VHB ( Provisional ) and other organizations in August 1947 . From then until December 15 , 1948 the 307th Wing controlled , in addition to its own units , the 82d Fighter Wing at Grenier Field , NH . In September 1947 it began training other SAC combat units in anti - submarine warfare . In February , it began operating a B - 29 transition training school and standardized combat training for all SAC units . Korean War . In August 1950 , the 307th deployed to Okinawa . Detached from SAC , it began operations under Far East Air Forces ( FEAF ) Bomber Command , provisional . The attached 306th Bomb Group transferred to its parent wing on September 1 , 1950 and until February 10 , 1951 the 307th had no tactical mission . On that date , wing resources were used to train the 6th Air Division at MacDill and the wing deployed without personnel to Kadena AB , where it absorbed resources of the 307th Bomb Group and began flying combat missions . During the Korean War , the 307th Bomb Wing received a Presidential Unit Citation for their extraordinary heroism in action against an enemy of the United Nations during the period of 11 to 27 July 1953 . During this time it flew 93 sorties and dropped 860 tons of bombs on targets at the North Korean Simanju Airfield , where , despite severe airframe icing , intense enemy anti - aircraft fire and co - ordinated searchlight and fighter opposition , it rendered the airfield unserviceable . The 307th also flew the last B - 29 Superfortress combat mission on 23 July 1953 . By the end of the hostilities , the wing ( including its tactical group ) had flown 5 , 810 combat sorties in 573 combat missions . The wing remained in the Far East in combat ready status and on August 15 , 1953 Kadena AB , Okinawa became its permanent base . Cold War . The 307th returned to the United States in November 1954 and disposed of its B - 29 ' s at Davis - Monthan AFB , Arizona . It proceeded to its new base , Lincoln AFB , Nebraska . Replaced the propeller - driven B - 29s with new B - 47E Stratojet swept - wing medium bombers in 1955 , capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily designed for penetrating the airspace of the Soviet Union . It conducted strategic bombardment training and air refueling operations to meet SAC ' s global commitments . 4362d Support Squadron later the 4352d Post Attack Command and Control Squadron was attached July 20 , 1962 - December 24 , 1964 . of SAC ' s strategic arsenal . In January 1965 the wing began phasing down as Lincoln AFB was being closed and the wing ' s B - 47s were retired . Discontinued and inactivated on March 25 , 1965 . Vietnam War . The wing was again activated in 1970 as the 307th Strategic Wing when it replaced the 4258th Strategic Wing ( 4258 SW ) at U - Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield , Thailand . The 4258th SW was established by SAC at U - Tapao on 2 June 1966 and attached to the 3d Air Division to supporting deployed Boeing KC - 135 Stratotanker s that deployed to Thailand from the United States to engage in combat operations over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War . The wing was assigned three maintenance squadrons and received administrative and logistics support from the 635th Combat Support Group of Pacific Air Forces . The following year , the wing added the 4258th Munitions Maintenance Squadron , which enabled it to support Boeing B - 52 Stratofortress operations as well . In 1970 , in order to perpetuate the lineage of inactive bombardment units with illustrious World War II records , SAC received authority from Headquarters , USAF to discontinue its two Major Command controlled ( MAJCON ) strategic wings in the Pacific and replace them with Air Force controlled ( AFCON ) units , which could carry a lineage and history . On 1 April 1970 , the 4258th SW was discontinued and replaced by the 307th Strategic Wing which assumed its mission , personnel , and equipment on 1 February 1963 . The 4258th ' s maintenance squadrons were replaced by ones with the 307th numerical designation of the newly established wing . Each of the new units assumed the personnel , equipment , and mission of its predecessor . The 307th was the only regular Air Force SAC Wing stationed in Southeast Asia . Using aircraft and crews deployed from CONUS - based SAC wings , the 307th conducted conventional bombardment operations and provided KC - 135 aerial refueling ( Young Tiger Tanker Task Force ) of U . S . aircraft in Southeast Asia as directed through the Military Assistance Command , Vietnam . It ended all combat operations on August 14 , 1973 as a result of the Congressionally mandated end of US Combat activities over Laos and Cambodia . The final B - 52 returned to its home unit in June 1975 , but the wing continued some KC - 135 and refueling operations supporting the USAF tactical units in Thailand until inactivated on September 30 , 1975 as part of the USAF withdrawsl from its Thai bases . Components . " Squadrons . * Composed of aircraft deployed from multiple CONUS - based wings