USAF Patch Bomb b 92 Strategic Aerospace Wing Security Police

USAF Patch Bomb 92 Strategic Aerospace Wing Security Police Squadron B 52 1966 Fairchild AFB Fully embroidered cut edge 77mm by 73mm three and one sixteenth inches by two and seven eighth inches.

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92 Bombardment Wing Very Heavy was activated on 17 November 1947 at Spokane Army Air Field Fairchild AFB Washington as part of USAFs wing base reorganization to brought together combat groups and all supporting base units assigned to a single wing with in this case with 92 Bombardment Group equipped with B 29 Superfortress bombers as its operational component and doubling in size with 98 Bombardment Group attached as a B 29 operational component for periods up to 1951. The Wing generally operated with one bomb group deployed overseas for training or combat in Korea but also supervised the Reserve 454 Bombardment Group from June 1949 until February 1951 when the 454 was called to active duty for the Korean War. The Wing was redesignated 92 Bombardment Wing Heavy and the Group structure was inactivated in 1951 and the flying Squadrons 325 326 and 327 Bombardment Squadrons were initially attached and then assigned direct to the Wing.

The Wing reequipped with B 36 Peacemaker bombers in 1951 and in 1953 completed the first mass flight of B 36 bombers to the Far East in Operation Big Stick. The entire Wing deployed to Andersen AFB Guam for 90 days in 1954 and again in 1956. 92 Bombardment Wing reequipped with B 52 Stratofortress strategic bombers in and added air refueling tasking activating 92 Air Refueling Squadron with KC 135 Stratotanker aircraft in 1957. 326 Bombardment Squadron was reassigned to 4141 Strategic Wing in September 1958 and 327 BS was reassigned to 4171 Strategic Wing in June 1960.

92 BWH added SM 65E Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles ICBMs to its inventory with the activation of 567 Strategic Missile Squadron on 1 April 1960. The Wing was assigned 22 Air Refueling Squadron on 15 June 1960 and was redesignated 92 Strategic Aerospace Wing on 15 February 1962. 22 AREFS was inactivated on 1 July 1962 and 567 Strategic Missile Squadron was inactivated on 25 June 1965. From 1965 the 92 Strategic Aerospace Wing supported SAC activities over Vietnam and Southeast Asia with tanker crews joined by 43 Air Refuelling Squadron in April 1966 involved in Operation Young Tiger refueling combat aircraft and B 52 bombers rotationally deploying to Andersen AFB Guam for Operation Arc Light campaign against enemy strongholds in Vietnam. The Wing provided aircraft for the secret Operation Giant Lance over Alaska in 1969 designed to prevent the Soviet Union from supporting North Vietnam.The Wing was redesignated 92 Bombardment Wing Heavy on 31 March 1972 and continued combat missions and involvement in Vietnam until 1975.

New tasking began in 1975 with joint USAF USN sea reconnaissance and surveillance missions and in 1983 the B 52 bombers were modified to carry AGM 86B Air Launched Cruise Missiles ALCM before upgrading to B 52H bombers in 1985. The Wing deployed to the Middle East for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in August 1990 with 43 and 92 AREFS undertaking 721 combat sorties refuelling coalition aircraft.

43 AREFS was inactivated and 92 Bombardment Wing was redesignated 92 Wing on 1 September 1991 to recognise its dual refuelling and bombing role. The Wing was then redesignated 92 Bomb Wing on 1 June 1992 on its reassignment from SAC to Air Combat Command ACC before ending its B 52 alert duties in September 1992 and ended its bombardment mission with the last B 52 leaving on 25 May 1994. The Wing was reorganised retasked and redesignated 92 Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild AFB on 1 July 1994.

This patch dates from 1966.