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1948 - 1968 Milestones
14 April 1948 --The Air Force Reserve was formally established as the Air Force Reserve.
1 December 1948 - The Continental Air Command was organized with a primary mission of training and administering the Air Reserve Forces.
1950-1953 - More than 147,000 were mobilized to augment the active duty. Both the 452nd Bombardment Wing, Long Beach Municipal Airport, California, and the 437th Troop Carrier Wing, O'Hare International Airport, Illinois, saw extensive combat service in Korea.
29 March 1952 - The 403rd Troop Carrier Wing, Portland Airport, Oregon, was the first Air Force Reserve unit to operate the C-119 during the Korean War.
6 August 1953 - The Air Force Reserve received its first jet aircraft when the T-33 aircraft was assigned to the 349th Fighter Bomber Wing, Hamilton AFB, California.
1 November 1953 - The Air Reserve Records Center, later renamed the Air Reserve Personnel Center, was established in Denver, Colorado, to centralize and standardize Reserve records custody.
1 January 1953 - Three major categories within the Reserve components are established--the Ready Reserve, the Standby Reserve, and the Retired Reserve.
January 1955 - The reserve navigator training program was inaugurated.
 22 June 1956 - The Air Force Reserve began to perform real world missions as part of its training in Operation Sixteen Ton, this was in support of the US Coast Guard.
18 August 1956 - The Air Force Reserve's first rescue squadron, the 301st Air Rescue Squadron at Miami International Airport, Florida, was activated and assigned the SA-16 (later HU -16) aircraft.
December 1956 - The first F-86 entered the Air Force Reserve inventory and was delivered to the 2596th Air Reserve Flying Center, Hensley Field, Texas. They were later given to the Air National Guard in 1957.
10 January 1958 - The first two Air Reserve Technicians, MSgt Samuel C. McCormack of the 446th Troop Carrier Wing, Ellington AFB, Texas, and TSgt James W. Clark of the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron, Davis Field, Oklahoma, were sworn in to the Air Force Reserve.
May 1960 - The Air Force revised its system of managing and training the Air Reserve Forces. The Continental Air Command retained command of all Air Force Reserve units, but the gaining commands became responsible for the operational readiness of the units they would gain upon mobilization.
January 1961 - The Air Force Reserve received its first C-124 aircraft assigned to the 77th Troop Carrier Squadron at Donaldson AFB, South Carolina.
15 April 1961 - Headquarters Continental Command moved from Mitchel AFB, New York, to Robins AFB, Georgia.
1 October 1961 - In all, some 5,500 Air Force Reservists to include two troop carrier wings and five C-124 groups as well as support elements were mobilized for one year during the Berlin Crisis.
 18 October 1962 - Eight Air Force Reserve troop carrier wings and six aerial port squadrons, totaling more than 14,200 Air Force Reservists and 400 aircraft, were mobilized for one month during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1 July 1964 - Reserve pay responsibilities were transferred from the Air Reserve Records Center to the Air Force Finance Center at Denver, Colorado. Active Duty, Reserve and Air National Guard pay was now centralized in one location.
21 December 1964 - Five Air Reserve troop carrier organizations flew 17 sorties over an eight-county area in Southeast Montana. Reservists dropped 65 tons of hay from C-119s in support of Operation Haylift to relieve starving livestock that were exposed to sub-zero temperatures and blizzards.
January 1965 -The Air Force Reserve began strategic lift into the Vietnam Theater. The Air Force Reserve flew C-124 missions as part of their inactive duty and annual two-week training.
30 April 1965 - Volunteer Air Force Reserve crews flew C-124s in response to Operation Power Pack in support of United States operations to protect and evacuate US and foreign nationals in the Dominican Republic.
10 July 1966 - With hundreds of military personnel stranded across the nation due to a strike of the major airlines, Air Force Reserve forces provided transportation utilizing C-124s and C-119s coast-to-coast in Operation Combat Leave.
16-27 December 1967 - Air Force Reserve flying units flew C-124s, C-119s, HU-16s, and HC-97s in support of Operation Haylift II. Hay was airdropped to feed isolated cattle affected by severe snowstorms on Indian reservations in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. Reserve aerospace rescue and recovery squadrons also flew orbit mission in support of the operation.
1 January 1968 - The Office of Air Force Reserve was organized. Major General Tom E. Marchbanks Jr., was the first Chief of Air Force Reserve.
26 January 1968 - Five C-124 military airlift groups and one HC-97 aerospace rescue and recovery squadron were mobilized in the wake of the Pueblo Incident.
25 March 1968 -The 446th Tactical Airlift Wing, Ellington AFB, Texas, began conversion from the C-119 Flying Boxcars to the C-130 Hercules. For the first time, the active and Air Force Reserve operated the same equipment.
25 March 1968 - The Air Force Reserve inaugurated the Reserve associate airlift program with the C-141 Starlifter at the 944th Military Airlift Group, Norton AFB, California.
 13 May 1968 - Air Force Reservists were ordered to extended active duty in Southeast Asia. The 755 Reservists provided C-119 (later AC-119 gunship) operational support, aerial port, aeromedical evacuation, and medical support.
1 August 1968 - Headquarters Air Force Reserve, a field operating agency, replaced the discontinued Continental Air Command at Robins AFB, Georgia.
10 August 1968 -The Air Force Reserve formed an aeromedical associate unit at Scott AFB, Illinois, with the acquisition of the new C-9 Nightingale aircraft assigned to the Air Force Reserve's 932nd Aeromedical Airlift Group.
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