40th Helicopter Squadron, US Air Force

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40TH HELICOPTER SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE

History: Constituted as 40 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, activated, and organized, on 21 Mar 1968. Inactivated on 31 Jan 1976. Activated on 1 Jul 1978. Inactivated on 31 Dec 1987. Redesignated as 40 Rescue Flight on 1 Apr 1993. Activated on 1 May 1993. Redesignated as: 40 Helicopter Flight on 1 May 1998; 40 Helicopter Squadron on 11 Oct 2005.

Search and rescue operations during the war in Vietnam. Participated in the evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Saigon, South Vietnam, when those cities fell to communist forces in 1975. After hostile forces seized the American merchant ship Mayaguez that same year, took part in an assault on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia. Rescue missions and exercises, 1978-1987 and 1993-.

Coat of arms (crest) of the 40th Helicopter Squadron, US Air Force
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The Emblem was approved on 10 July 2003.

Literature: Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/


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