Units
The 168th Air Refueling Wing consists of the following units:
- 168th Operations Group (168 OG)
- 168th Air Refueling Squadron (168ARS)
- 168th Operations Support Flight (168 OSF)
- 168th Maintenance Group (168 MXG)
- 168th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (168AMXS)
- 168th Maintenance Squadron (168 MXS)
- 168th Maintenance Operations Flight (168 MOF)
- 168th Mission Support Group (168 MSG)
- 168th Communications Flight(168 CF)
- 168th Logistics Readiness Squadron (168 LRS)
- 168th Mission Support Flight (168 MSF)
- 168th Security Forces Squadron (168 SFS)
- 168th Medical Group (168 MDG)
- 213th Space Warning Squadron (213 SWS), Geographically Separated Unit (GSU) located at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska
- Located 40 miles north of Mount McKinley and 80 miles south of Fairbanks. The 213th SWS is responsible for providing tactical warning and attack assessment of a ballistic missile attack against the continental United States and southern Canada. Warning data from the unit is forwarded to the North American Aerospace Defense Command inside Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colorado. The squadron is also responsible for a portion of the Air Force Space Command Space Surveillance System and assists in tracking more than 9,500 space objects currently in Earth's orbit.
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