{"history":[],"article":{"id":"7df982d4-e2b1-430b-a5df-297a9ab44e5d","title":"60th Operations Group","slug":"60th-operations-group","content":":::summary\n![Boeing C-17A Globemaster III 06-6155 of the 21st Airlift Squadron](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/60thogroup-21as-c-17.jpg)\n**Unit Name:** 60th Operations Group \n**Image Size:** 300 \n**Dates:** 1940–1946; 1948–1957; 1978–1979; 1991–present \n**Country:** 🇺🇸 [United States](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states) \n**Type:** Strategic Airlift \n**Garrison:** [Travis Air Force Base](https://bliptext.com/articles/travis-air-force-base), California \n**Battles:** European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Streamer.jpg
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Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (11x) \n**Identification Symbol:** 60thoperationsgroup-emblem.jpg \n**Identification Symbol Label:** 60th Operations Group Emblem \n**Aircraft Transport:** [C-17A Globemaster III](https://bliptext.com/articles/c-17a-globemaster-iii)
[C-5M Super Galaxy](https://bliptext.com/articles/c-5m-super-galaxy) \n**Aircraft Tanker:** [KC-10 Extender](https://bliptext.com/articles/kc-10-extender) \n:::\n\n# \nThe **60th Operations Group (60 OG)** is a [United States Air Force](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-air-force) unit assigned to the [60th Air Mobility Wing](https://bliptext.com/articles/60th-air-mobility-wing).\nIt is stationed at [Travis Air Force Base](https://bliptext.com/articles/travis-air-force-base), California.\nEstablished prior to [World War II](https://bliptext.com/articles/world-war-ii), its predecessor unit, the **60th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group** engaged in combat operations, first with the [Eighth Air Force](https://bliptext.com/articles/eighth-air-force) and primarily with [Twelfth Air Force](https://bliptext.com/articles/twelfth-air-force) during the war.\nIt received a [Distinguished Unit Citation](https://bliptext.com/articles/distinguished-unit-citation) for its actions in the [Mediterranean Theater of Operations](https://bliptext.com/articles/mediterranean-theater-of-operations), 28 March-15 September 1944.\nWhile attempting to organize effective fighting forces in [Yugoslavia](https://bliptext.com/articles/yugoslavia), Greece, and [Albania](https://bliptext.com/articles/albania), the Allies tasked the 60th for an immediate, substantial, and steady flow of desperately needed supplies.\nDespite poor weather, terrain, enemy night fighters, anti-aircraft fire, and hostile ground action, the 60th flew nearly 3,000 missions, including 600 hazardous landings, delivered more than 7,000 tons of supplies and equipment, and evacuated thousands of military and civilian personnel.\nThe group lost 10 aircraft and 34 members of the 60th were either killed or listed as missing.\n\n# Overview\nThe 60th Operations Group is the flying component of the [Air Mobility Command](https://bliptext.com/articles/air-mobility-command) [60th Air Mobility Wing](https://bliptext.com/articles/60th-air-mobility-wing).\nThe 60 OG is the largest Operations Group in Air Mobility Command.\nIt operates and maintains C-5 Galaxy; C-17 Globemaster III transports and KC-10 Extender air refueling aircraft supporting global engagement of troops, supplies, and equipment.\n\n# Components\nThe 60 OG consists of the following squadrons:\n\n# History\n\n## World War II\nConstituted on 20 November 1940 as the 60th Transport Group, the unit activated at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, on 1 December 1940, flying the C-47 aircraft.\nAfter a brief stay at Westover Field, Massachusetts (May 1941 – June 1942), the 60th moved to Chelveston, England, and then to Aldermaston, England, in August 1942.\nThe group was redesignated as the 60th Troop Carrier Group on 1 July 1942.\nThe units next moved to [Tafaraoui Airfield](https://bliptext.com/articles/tafaraoui-airfield), Algeria, and was assigned to Twelfth Air Force.\nDuring the war in Europe, the 60 TCG also served from bases in Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy before moving to Waller Field, Trinidad, in June 1945.\nDuring World War II, the group participated in the [battle for Tunisia](https://bliptext.com/articles/tunisia-campaign); towed gliders and dropped paratroops behind enemy lines when the [Allies invaded Sicily](https://bliptext.com/articles/allied-invasion-of-sicily); and [dropped paratroops at Megara](https://bliptext.com/articles/operation-manna) during the airborne element of the [liberation of Greece](https://bliptext.com/articles/liberation-of-greece) in October 1944.\nWhen not engaged in airborne operations, the group transported troops and supplies and evacuated wounded personnel.\nIn October 1943, for instance, the 60th dropped supplies to men who had escaped from [prisoner-of-war camps](https://bliptext.com/articles/prisoner-of-war-camp).\nReceived a DUC for supporting partisans in the Balkans, March–September 1944, making unarmed night missions to provisional airfields in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece.\nOn return flights evacuated wounded partisans and escaped Allied personnel.\nIn June 1945, the 60 TCG moved to [Trinidad](https://bliptext.com/articles/trinidad) and came under the command of the Air Transport Command.\nThe group inactivated on 31 July 1945.\n# [C-47 Skytrains of the 60th Troop Carrier Group during World War II | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/60thtcg-c47s-worldwarII.jpg]\n# [60th TCG C-54 Skymasters during the Berlin Airlift | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/60thtcg-c54-berlinairlift-1948.jpg]\n# [Squadron of 60th TCG C-82 Packets over Europe, 1952 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/60thtcg-c82s-1952.jpg]\n\n## Cold War\nAfter just 15 months on the inactive list, the 60th activated again on 30 September 1946, this time at Munich, Germany.\nShortly after moving to Kaufbeuren Air Base, Germany, on 14 May 1948, the 60 TCG and its three squadrons—the 10th, 11th, and 12th Troop Carriers Squadrons—began supporting the Berlin Airlift.\nFrom 26 June 1948 to 30 September 1949, the C-47 and C-54-equipped squadrons flew from both Kaufbeuren AB and Wiesbaden AB, Germany, and contributed to the U.S. total of nearly 1.8 million tons of supplies delivered on 189,963 flights.\nDuring the Berlin Airlift, the 60th Troop Carrier Wing, Medium, activated at Kaufbeuren AB on 1 July 1948.\nAt that time the 60 TCG became a subordinate unit assigned to the new wing.\nThrough its subordinate operations group—the 60th Troop Carrier Group, Heavy—the 60 TCW managed three flying squadrons: the 10th, 11th, and 12th Troop Carrier Squadrons.\nWhen the Berlin Airlift ended on 26 September 1949, the 60 TCG began moving without its personnel and equipment to Wiesbaden AB, West Germany, where the wing assumed the resources of the inactivated 7150th Air Force Composite Wing.\nThe 60th became operational at Wiesbaden on 1 October 1949.\nOn 2 June 1951, the wing replaced the 61 TCW at Rhein-Main AB, where the 60 TCG had been stationed on detached service.\nAt this time, the group resumed a tactical role and assumed responsibility for controlling all U.S. tactical airlift resources in Europe.\nThe 60 TCG provided logistic airlift services to U.S. and Allied forces in Europe while maintaining host unit responsibilities at Rhein-Main.\nOperating the C-82, C-119, and C-47 aircraft, the wing participated in countless exercises and provided air transportability training to U.S. Army units.\nIn a major reorganization, the 322 AD reduced the headquarters elements of the 60 TCG, 309 TCG, and the 60 M & S Group to one officer and one airmen each on 15 November 1956.\nWas inactivated in 1957.\nBriefly activated as the 60 Military Airlift Group in March 1978.\nUntil February 979, airlifted personnel and cargo worldwide, controlling the 60 MAW's tactical squadrons.\nParticipated in joint exercises and humanitarian airlift missions, including airlift following the Jonestown, Guyana murder-suicides, November 1978.\n\n## Modern era\nOn 28 October 1991, the **60th Operations Group** activated under the \"Objective Wing\" concept adapted by the Air Force as the lines between tactical and strategic forces blurred.\nThe flying components of the 60th Airlift Wing were reassigned to the newly established group.\nUpon activation, the 60 OG was bestowed the history, lineage and honors of the 60 Military Airlift Group and its predecessor units from the wing.\nIn 1991, commenced airlift in support of U.S. relief operations in Somalia during Operations PROVIDE RELIEF and RESTORE HOPE.\nSupported on-going operations in Southwest Asia during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH.\nGroup elements also supported Operation PROVIDE COMFORT that provided relief for Kurdish refugees, assisted in the evacuation of military personnel and their dependents from the Philippines through Operation FIERY VIGIL in 1991, and supplied airlift support to Balkans peacekeeping missions beginning in 1995 with Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR, and continuing under Operations JOINT GUARD and JOINT FORGE.\nDeployed tanker and support elements to the European theater during Operation ALLIED FORCE from March–June 1999, as well as providing airlift support to other air expeditionary forces deploying to the operation.\n# [KC-10 refueling a C-5 Galaxy | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/60thogroup-kc10-c5.jpg]\n# [Personnel from the 366th Air Expeditionary Wing arriving in Lockheed C-5B Galaxy in support of the U.S. Central Command execution of Operation Enduring Freedom. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/60thogroup-c5-centaf.jpg]\n\n## Global War on Terrorism\nAmerica began air strikes against the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces on 7 October 2001, but the groundwork for success was laid in the weeks leading up to those attacks.\nUnder Operation Enduring Freedom, a rapid mobilization requiring a tremendous effort from the personnel, supply, medical, security forces, finance, legal and chapel specialists charged with ensuring airmen were ready, trained and equipped to deploy.\nThe 60th Air Expeditionary Group was designated as a provisional unit under Air Mobility Command to activate or inactivate as necessary for combat operations of the 60th Operations Group.\nThe military build-up at bare base locations on the other side of the globe put the strategic airlift capabilities of the Travis C-5 fleet to the test.\nIn support of one forward operating location alone, Travis C-5s helped deliver more than 8 million tons of cargo and 2,500 passengers in the months of September and October.\nWhen the bombers did launch 7 October, they reached their distant targets in Afghanistan only with the help of aerial refueling from Travis KC-10s of the 60th Air Expeditionary Group.\nBase tankers have kept up support of the air campaign from two major locations, offloading more than 120 million pounds of fuel to combat aircraft during the height of military operations.\nTravis KC-10s flew a year's worth of flying hours in less than six months since 11 September.\nOver 90 percent of these flying hours were flown in combat or in combat support.\nIn February 2002 C-17 Globemaster IIIs joined the 60th Air Expeditionary Group to carry warfighters and equipment into Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.\nWhen U.S. Central Command officials decided to put ground troops in Afghanistan, they called on the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky.\nTo get the soldiers to the fight, Air Mobility Command used C-17s and C-5 Galaxy airlifters to move the Army's air assault division into Afghanistan.\n\n## Lineage\n\n## Assignments\n\n## Components\n\n## Stations\n\n## Aircraft","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T12:02:23.229Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T12:02:23.229Z","search_vector":"'60th':1 'group':3 'oper':2","search_content":" \n \n**Unit Name:** 60th Operations Group \n**Image Size:** 300 \n**Dates:** 1940–1946; 1948–1957; 1978–1979; 1991–present \n**Country:** 🇺🇸 [United States](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states) \n**Type:** Strategic Airlift \n**Garrison:** [Travis Air Force Base](https://bliptext.com/articles/travis-air-force-base), California \n**Battles:** European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Streamer.jpg European-African-Middle East Campaign (World War II) Berlin Airlift AOWWII Streamer.png Berlin Airlift Kosovo Campaign Streamer.jpg Kosovo Campaign \n**Decorations:** Streamer PUC Army.PNG Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Meritorious Unit Award.jpg Meritorious Unit Award US Air Force Outstanding Unit Award - Stremer.jpg Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (11x) \n**Identification Symbol:** 60thoperationsgroup-emblem.jpg \n**Identification Symbol Label:** 60th Operations Group Emblem \n**Aircraft Transport:** [C-17A Globemaster III](https://bliptext.com/articles/c-17a-globemaster-iii) [C-5M Super Galaxy](https://bliptext.com/articles/c-5m-super-galaxy) \n**Aircraft Tanker:** [KC-10 Extender](https://bliptext.com/articles/kc-10-extender) \n \n\n# \nThe **60th Operations Group (60 OG)** is a [United States Air Force](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-air-force) unit assigned to the [60th Air Mobility Wing](https://bliptext.com/articles/60th-air-mobility-wing).\nIt is stationed at [Travis Air Force Base](https://bliptext.com/articles/travis-air-force-base), California.\nEstablished prior to [World War II](https://bliptext.com/articles/world-war-ii), its predecessor unit, the **60th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group** engaged in combat operations, first with the [Eighth Air Force](https://bliptext.com/articles/eighth-air-force) and primarily with [Twelfth Air Force](https://bliptext.com/articles/twelfth-air-force) during the war.\nIt received a [Distinguished Unit Citation](https://bliptext.com/articles/distinguished-unit-citation) for its actions in the [Mediterranean Theater of Operations](https://bliptext.com/articles/mediterranean-theater-of-operations), 28 March-15 September 1944.\nWhile attempting to organize effective fighting forces in [Yugoslavia](https://bliptext.com/articles/yugoslavia), Greece, and [Albania](https://bliptext.com/articles/albania), the Allies tasked the 60th for an immediate, substantial, and steady flow of desperately needed supplies.\nDespite poor weather, terrain, enemy night fighters, anti-aircraft fire, and hostile ground action, the 60th flew nearly 3,000 missions, including 600 hazardous landings, delivered more than 7,000 tons of supplies and equipment, and evacuated thousands of military and civilian personnel.\nThe group lost 10 aircraft and 34 members of the 60th were either killed or listed as missing.\n\n# Overview\nThe 60th Operations Group is the flying component of the [Air Mobility Command](https://bliptext.com/articles/air-mobility-command) [60th Air Mobility Wing](https://bliptext.com/articles/60th-air-mobility-wing).\nThe 60 OG is the largest Operations Group in Air Mobility Command.\nIt operates and maintains C-5 Galaxy; C-17 Globemaster III transports and KC-10 Extender air refueling aircraft supporting global engagement of troops, supplies, and equipment.\n\n# Components\nThe 60 OG consists of the following squadrons:\n\n# History\n\n## World War II\nConstituted on 20 November 1940 as the 60th Transport Group, the unit activated at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, on 1 December 1940, flying the C-47 aircraft.\nAfter a brief stay at Westover Field, Massachusetts (May 1941 – June 1942), the 60th moved to Chelveston, England, and then to Aldermaston, England, in August 1942.\nThe group was redesignated as the 60th Troop Carrier Group on 1 July 1942.\nThe units next moved to [Tafaraoui Airfield](https://bliptext.com/articles/tafaraoui-airfield), Algeria, and was assigned to Twelfth Air Force.\nDuring the war in Europe, the 60 TCG also served from bases in Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy before moving to Waller Field, Trinidad, in June 1945.\nDuring World War II, the group participated in the [battle for Tunisia](https://bliptext.com/articles/tunisia-campaign); towed gliders and dropped paratroops behind enemy lines when the [Allies invaded Sicily](https://bliptext.com/articles/allied-invasion-of-sicily); and [dropped paratroops at Megara](https://bliptext.com/articles/operation-manna) during the airborne element of the [liberation of Greece](https://bliptext.com/articles/liberation-of-greece) in October 1944.\nWhen not engaged in airborne operations, the group transported troops and supplies and evacuated wounded personnel.\nIn October 1943, for instance, the 60th dropped supplies to men who had escaped from [prisoner-of-war camps](https://bliptext.com/articles/prisoner-of-war-camp).\nReceived a DUC for supporting partisans in the Balkans, March–September 1944, making unarmed night missions to provisional airfields in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece.\nOn return flights evacuated wounded partisans and escaped Allied personnel.\nIn June 1945, the 60 TCG moved to [Trinidad](https://bliptext.com/articles/trinidad) and came under the command of the Air Transport Command.\nThe group inactivated on 31 July 1945.\n# [C-47 Skytrains of the 60th Troop Carrier Group during World War II | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/60thtcg-c47s-worldwarII.jpg]\n# [60th TCG C-54 Skymasters during the Berlin Airlift | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/60thtcg-c54-berlinairlift-1948.jpg]\n# [Squadron of 60th TCG C-82 Packets over Europe, 1952 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/60thtcg-c82s-1952.jpg]\n\n## Cold War\nAfter just 15 months on the inactive list, the 60th activated again on 30 September 1946, this time at Munich, Germany.\nShortly after moving to Kaufbeuren Air Base, Germany, on 14 May 1948, the 60 TCG and its three squadrons—the 10th, 11th, and 12th Troop Carriers Squadrons—began supporting the Berlin Airlift.\nFrom 26 June 1948 to 30 September 1949, the C-47 and C-54-equipped squadrons flew from both Kaufbeuren AB and Wiesbaden AB, Germany, and contributed to the U.S. total of nearly 1.8 million tons of supplies delivered on 189,963 flights.\nDuring the Berlin Airlift, the 60th Troop Carrier Wing, Medium, activated at Kaufbeuren AB on 1 July 1948.\nAt that time the 60 TCG became a subordinate unit assigned to the new wing.\nThrough its subordinate operations group—the 60th Troop Carrier Group, Heavy—the 60 TCW managed three flying squadrons: the 10th, 11th, and 12th Troop Carrier Squadrons.\nWhen the Berlin Airlift ended on 26 September 1949, the 60 TCG began moving without its personnel and equipment to Wiesbaden AB, West Germany, where the wing assumed the resources of the inactivated 7150th Air Force Composite Wing.\nThe 60th became operational at Wiesbaden on 1 October 1949.\nOn 2 June 1951, the wing replaced the 61 TCW at Rhein-Main AB, where the 60 TCG had been stationed on detached service.\nAt this time, the group resumed a tactical role and assumed responsibility for controlling all U.S. tactical airlift resources in Europe.\nThe 60 TCG provided logistic airlift services to U.S. and Allied forces in Europe while maintaining host unit responsibilities at Rhein-Main.\nOperating the C-82, C-119, and C-47 aircraft, the wing participated in countless exercises and provided air transportability training to U.S. Army units.\nIn a major reorganization, the 322 AD reduced the headquarters elements of the 60 TCG, 309 TCG, and the 60 M & S Group to one officer and one airmen each on 15 November 1956.\nWas inactivated in 1957.\nBriefly activated as the 60 Military Airlift Group in March 1978.\nUntil February 979, airlifted personnel and cargo worldwide, controlling the 60 MAW's tactical squadrons.\nParticipated in joint exercises and humanitarian airlift missions, including airlift following the Jonestown, Guyana murder-suicides, November 1978.\n\n## Modern era\nOn 28 October 1991, the **60th Operations Group** activated under the \"Objective Wing\" concept adapted by the Air Force as the lines between tactical and strategic forces blurred.\nThe flying components of the 60th Airlift Wing were reassigned to the newly established group.\nUpon activation, the 60 OG was bestowed the history, lineage and honors of the 60 Military Airlift Group and its predecessor units from the wing.\nIn 1991, commenced airlift in support of U.S. relief operations in Somalia during Operations PROVIDE RELIEF and RESTORE HOPE.\nSupported on-going operations in Southwest Asia during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH.\nGroup elements also supported Operation PROVIDE COMFORT that provided relief for Kurdish refugees, assisted in the evacuation of military personnel and their dependents from the Philippines through Operation FIERY VIGIL in 1991, and supplied airlift support to Balkans peacekeeping missions beginning in 1995 with Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR, and continuing under Operations JOINT GUARD and JOINT FORGE.\nDeployed tanker and support elements to the European theater during Operation ALLIED FORCE from March–June 1999, as well as providing airlift support to other air expeditionary forces deploying to the operation.\n# [KC-10 refueling a C-5 Galaxy | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/60thogroup-kc10-c5.jpg]\n# [Personnel from the 366th Air Expeditionary Wing arriving in Lockheed C-5B Galaxy in support of the U.S. Central Command execution of Operation Enduring Freedom. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/60thogroup-c5-centaf.jpg]\n\n## Global War on Terrorism\nAmerica began air strikes against the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces on 7 October 2001, but the groundwork for success was laid in the weeks leading up to those attacks.\nUnder Operation Enduring Freedom, a rapid mobilization requiring a tremendous effort from the personnel, supply, medical, security forces, finance, legal and chapel specialists charged with ensuring airmen were ready, trained and equipped to deploy.\nThe 60th Air Expeditionary Group was designated as a provisional unit under Air Mobility Command to activate or inactivate as necessary for combat operations of the 60th Operations Group.\nThe military build-up at bare base locations on the other side of the globe put the strategic airlift capabilities of the Travis C-5 fleet to the test.\nIn support of one forward operating location alone, Travis C-5s helped deliver more than 8 million tons of cargo and 2,500 passengers in the months of September and October.\nWhen the bombers did launch 7 October, they reached their distant targets in Afghanistan only with the help of aerial refueling from Travis KC-10s of the 60th Air Expeditionary Group.\nBase tankers have kept up support of the air campaign from two major locations, offloading more than 120 million pounds of fuel to combat aircraft during the height of military operations.\nTravis KC-10s flew a year's worth of flying hours in less than six months since 11 September.\nOver 90 percent of these flying hours were flown in combat or in combat support.\nIn February 2002 C-17 Globemaster IIIs joined the 60th Air Expeditionary Group to carry warfighters and equipment into Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.\nWhen U.S. Central Command officials decided to put ground troops in Afghanistan, they called on the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky.\nTo get the soldiers to the fight, Air Mobility Command used C-17s and C-5 Galaxy airlifters to move the Army's air assault division into Afghanistan.\n\n## Lineage\n\n## Assignments\n\n## Components\n\n## Stations\n\n## Aircraft","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}