The US increased its combat wings in the early 1950s.

ConAC was to operate 23 centers to train 25 combat wings.

"You think they'd want a hothead like you in command of a combat wing?"

Modern wings, as we know them, began their existence with a service test of combat wings in 1947-1948.

"Constituted combat wings are always numbered in a single series beginning with Arabic "1st.

The United States was rapidly expanding its air force, increasing the number of combat wings from 48 in 1950 to 95 by June 1952.

Trainee pilots, some not yet out of flight academy, are rushed into combat wings to do whatever they can.

The only combat wing to be cited twice during the Korean War.

This made the 97th a permanent combat wing.

Without time in combat wings, women lose promotion opportunities.