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|unit_name= 469th Flying Training Squadron | image=Northrop T-38 Talon 80th Flying Training Wing.JPG | image_size = 290 |caption=Northrop T-38 Talon of the 80th Flying Training Wing |dates=1942-1944; 1952-1958; 1962-1972; 2009-present |country={{USA}} |branch={{air force|USA}} |type= |role=Flight Training |size= |command_structure= Air Education and Training Command |current_commander= |garrison= Sheppard Air Force Base |ceremonial_chief= |colonel_of_the_regiment= |nickname= |patron= |motto= |colors= |march= |mascot= |battles=Vietnam War |notable_commanders= |anniversaries= |decorations=Presidential Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm |battle_honours= |identification_symbol= |identification_symbol_label=469th Flying Training Squadron emblem (approved 13 April 2009[1] |identification_symbol_2= |identification_symbol_2_label=Patch with 469th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron emblem }} The 469th Flying Training Squadron is part of the 80th Flying Training Wing and is based at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. HistoryWorld War IIEstablished as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomb squadron in 1942. Mission was as an Operational Training Unit (OTU) under Second Air Force training B-24 replacement pilots and aircrew. Inactivated in 1944 when B-24 Liberator crew training was ended.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} Korean War eraReactivated in 1952 as an Air Defense Command Fighter-Interceptor squadron during the Korean War. Squadron initially absorbed personnel, aircraft and equipment of several National Guard fighter-interceptor squadrons when they were relieved from active federal service. Provided Air Defense over Eastern Tennessee, specifically over the Atomic Energy Commission Oak Ridge facilities and numerous Aluminum production facilities in the Knoxville area. Converted to F-86s in 1953 and was operationally ready by July 1953. Utilized all major modifications of the F-86, including the "L" model. Participated in numerous actual and simulated exercises to test alert status and combat readiness until inactivation in 1958.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} Vietnam serviceActivated again in 1962 as a Tactical Air Command fighter squadron at George AFB, California. Equipped with F-105 Thunderchiefs, but remained unmanned from July 1962 through June 1963. Operational in February 1964, temporarily deployed overseas from November 1964 to March 1965, first to Yokota AB, Japan, to augment the 41st Air Division, and then to Kadena AB, Okinawa, in support of the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} Reassigned in November 1965 permanently to Thailand, where it prepared for combat fighter operations at Korat RTAFB. Engaged in combat operations over Indochina from November 1965 until inactivated in October 1972, flying F-105s and, after 1968, it flew F-4s.[1] By January 1969, proliferating antiaircraft defenses in the Barrel Roll area in the Kingdom of Laos were making operations ever riskier for Slow FACs such as the Raven FACs. The concept of stationing FACs at the same base with their strike aircraft was bruited. Volunteers from the 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron were approved for Fast FAC duty under the call sign "Tiger" in February. The inertial guidance systems in their fresh F-4E Phantom IIs would prove consequential for piloting and target location in an environment largely lacking in aerial navigation aids, especially after the 1 March loss of the only TACAN site in northern Laos. On 17 March, the volunteer FACs began supplying the necessary tactical air power for General Vang Pao's Hmong guerrillas to sweep through Operation Raindance. In April, the "Tigers" were considered for night FAC duties, but rejected. By July, the "Tiger" FACs were so immersed in directing close air support, they were allotted four sorties per day. Between July and September 1969, the "Tigers" were credited with 34 enemy killed by air, 12 antiaircraft sites destroyed, 246 interdictory road cuts of enemy supply lines, 15 enemy supply trucks destroyed, 403 structures destroyed, 360 fires caused by explosions, and 681 secondary explosions of munitions and fuel. They accomplished this during 182 FAC missions, during which they directed 2,004 air strikes. In turn, the "Tigers" suffered five F-4E's severely damaged by enemy fire.[2][3] 21st centuryThe 469th Flying Training Squadron was reactivated in April 2009 as part of the 80th Flying Training Wing to conduct undergraduate flying training for EURO-NATO pilot candidates.[1] The 469 Flying Training Squadron is composed of approximately 60 multinational personnel representing 13 signatory NATO nations supporting Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training. The squadron employs 46 T-38 aircraft flying over 11,500 training sorties and 13,000 hours while providing undergraduate, pilot instructor and continuation training for over 200 student pilots and instructor trainees annually.[4] Lineage
Activated 15 July 1942 Inactivated 1 April 1944
Activated on 1 December 1952 Inactivated 8 January 1958
Organized on 8 July 1962 Inactivated 31 October 1972
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References{{Portal|United States Air Force|Military of the United States|World War II}}
1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web |url= http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=14353 |last1=Robertson|first1=Patsy|title=Factsheet 469 Flying Training Squadron (AETC)|date= 2 April 2014|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165844/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=14353 |archivedate=3 March 2016|accessdate=10 November 2016}} 2. ^Rowley, pp. 193-194 3. ^Schlight, pp. 26 - 29 4. ^1 {{cite web|title=Fact Sheet: 80th Operations Group|url= http://www.sheppard.af.mil/Library/FactSheets/Display/tabid/3418/Article/367543/80th-operations-group.aspx |date=17 October 2012|publisher=Sheppard Air Force Base Public Affairs|accessdate=13 November 2016}} Bibliography{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}
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