USAF Patch Recon s y Sqn c 922 SS Strategic Squadron USAFE RC 135 SIGINT a

USAF 922 SS Strategic Patch 922 SS Strategic Squadron SAC Reconnaissance RC 135 Support Hellenikon AB Greece 1978 Subdued Fully embroidered cut edge 95mm by 75mm three and three quarter inches by three inches

USAF 922 SS Strategic Patch USAFE Strategic Squadron RC 135

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Squadron History USAF 922 SS Strategic

The inactivated 922 Air Refueling Squadron was reactivated as 922 Strategic Squadron on 1 July 1978 at Hellenikon AB Greece assigned to 306 Strategic Wing which controlled SAC European operations from Ramstein AB Germany to provide air refueling and RC 135 electronic intelligence reconnaissance support using aircraft and crews deployed from SAC bases in the United States for operations in the Mediterranean and supported USAFE and North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises. In September 1985 the inactive 22 Air Transport Squadron was consolidated into 922 Strategic Squadron.

After a period of heightened tensions and anti American activity in Greece the Greek government notified the United States that US bases on mainland Greece would be closed by 1990 and the Squadron relocated to Souda Bay Naval Air Station Crete on 15 April 1990.

With the imminent inactivation of SAC the Squadron was redesignated 922 Reconnaissance Squadron on 31 March 1992 reassigned to 55 Operations Group and relocated to RAF Mildenhall responsible for Offutt AFB based RC 135 reconnaissance aircraft deployed to RAF Mildenhall for European recon operations as the 922d Reconnaissance Squadron until 1994.

922 Reconnaissance Squadron was inactivated on 30 June 1994.

Under the Expeditionary Air Force concept the inactive Squadron was assigned to Air Combat Command converted to provisional status and redesignated 922 Expeditionary Reconnaissance Flight on 5 October 2007 to be activated and inactivated as needed. 922 Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron was activated on 2 February 2010 at San Isidro Air Base Dominican Republic assigned to 474 Air Expeditionary Group for Operation Unified Response the relief mission for the earthquakes in Haiti. The Squadron was inactivated at the end of the operation on 20 June 2010.

This patch dates from 1978