6th Air Mobility Wing
| 6th Air Mobility Wing | |
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6th Air Mobility Wing KC-135R Stratotanker, AF Ser. No. 61-0305, takes off from MacDill Air Force Base, 29 May 2013
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| Active | 30 September 1919 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch |
 United States Air Force
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| Part of |
Air Mobility Command Eighteenth Air Force |
| Garrison/HQ | MacDill AFB, Florida |
| Motto(s) | "Parati Defendere" Ready to Defend |
| Equipment | KC-135 Stratotanker, Gulfstream C-37A |
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| Decorations |
 AFOUA
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| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
Colonel April D. Vogel |
| Insignia | |
| 6th Air Mobility Wing emblem |  |
The United States Air Force's 6th Air Mobility Wing (6 AMW) is the host wing for MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. It is part of Air Mobility Command's (AMC) Eighteenth Air Force. The wing's 6th Operations Group is a successor organization of the 3d Observation Group, one of the seven original combat air groups formed by the United States Army Air Service shortly after the end of World War I.
The 6th Air Mobility Wing provides day-to-day mission support to more than 3,000 personnel along with more than 50 mission partners, including the United States Central Command and United States Special Operations Command. It is a force capable of rapidly projecting air refueling power anywhere in the world. The 6 AMW is organized into four unique groups and three operational flying squadrons to carry out its mission to be provide air refueling, airlift, and air base support.
The 6th Air Mobility Wing consists of:
The Wing's emblem, approved for the 6th Composite Group in 1924, reflects its origins with a ship sailing through the Gaillard Cut and an airplane flying overhead.
The 6th Bombardment Wing (Medium) was activated Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico on 2 January 1951, attached to the Eighth Air Force. The unit consisted of the 24th, 39th and 40th Bombardment Squadrons and was initially equipped with Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft. The 307th Air Refueling Squadron was also attached until 1952 and operated KB-29P Superfortress Tankers.
The wing has, through temporary bestowal, the lineage and honors of one of the oldest groups in the Air Force, its subordinate 6th Operations Group which was originally activated as the 3d Observation Group in the Panama Canal Zone on 30 September 1919. One of its assigned squadrons had been activated two years earlier during World War I and had been commanded by (then-Captain Henry H. Arnold. During World War II, the 6th Bombardment Group was assigned to the Twentieth Air Force and earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for action against Tokyo and the Japanese Empire.
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