The 70th Air Refueling Squadron (70 ARS) is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 349th Operations Group, stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California. It is a corollary unit of the active duty 6th Air Refueling Squadron, 60th Air Mobility Wing (60 AMW).
The squadron trained B-25 Mitchell replacement aircrews from, September 1942-April 1944. It has conducted worldwide air refueling from, 1955–1993 and since 1994. The 70th supported the National Emergency Airborne Command Post from 1970 to 1993. It also deployed aircrews and aircraft to Europe and the Arabian peninsula during the Gulf War from, 1990-1991.
Constituted 470th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 9 July 1942Activated on 16 July 1942Disbanded on 1 May 1944
Reconstituted, and consolidated (19 September 1985) with 70th Air Refueling Squadron, MediumConstituted on 3 June 1955Activated on 1 August 1955Redesignated:
70th Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy on 1 November 1963Redesignated:
70th Air Refueling Squadron on 1 September 1991Inactivated on 1 April 1993
Activated in the Reserve on 1 September 1994.334th Bombardment Group, 16 July 1942 – 1 May 194470th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, 1 August 1955384th Bombardment Wing, 1 August 196143d Bombardment Wing, 1 September 1964305th Air Refueling Wing, 1 January 1970305th Operations Group, 1 September 1991 – 1 April 1993349th Operations Group, 1 September 1994 – presentGreenville Army Air Base, South Carolina (1942–1944)Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas (1955–1970)Deployed: Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, Newfoundland (26 June - 15 August 1955, 24 June - 24 September 1957)Deployed: Lajes Field, Azores (3 September 1958 – 12 January 1959, 5 October 1960 - 11 January 1961, 31 July - 28 September 1962))Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana (1970–1993)Travis Air Force Base, California (1994 – present)B-25 Mitchell (1942–1944)KC-97 Stratotanker (1955–1963)KC-135 Stratotanker (1964–1969, 1970–1993)EC-135 (1976–1993)KC-10 Extender (1994 – present)
