Missile and Strategic Missile Wings

Main article: Strategic Air Command

List of USAF Missile and Strategic Missile Wings assigned to SAC

44th Strategic Missile Wing “Aggressors Beware”

• Organized on: 1 January 1962.
• At: Ellsworth AFB, SD.
• Assigned to: Strategic Air Command.
• Equipment: Titan Is.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 821st Strategic Aerospace Division on 1 January 1962
• Changed equipment in 1963 to Minuteman Is, Titan Is.
• Changed equipment in: 1966 to Minuteman Is.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 4th Strategic Missile Division on 30 June 1971.
• Changed equipment in: 1972 to Minuteman Is, IIs.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 4th Air Division on 1 March 1973.
• Changed equipment in: 1974 to Minuteman IIs.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 57th Air Division on 1 May 1982.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 4th Air Division on 23 January 1987.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 12th Air Division on 15 July 1988.
• Reassigned to: Eighth Air Force, 12th Air Division on 1 July 1989.
• Reassigned to: Strategic Warfare Center on 31 July 1990.
• Redesignated on: 1 September 1991 as 44th Missile Wing.

44th Missile Wing “Aggressors Beware”

• Redesignated on: 1 September 1991.
• At: Ellsworth AFB, SD.
• Assigned to: Strategic Weapons Center.
• Reassigned to: Twentieth Air Force on 31 July 1991.
• Reassigned to: Air Combat Command, Twentieth Air Force on 31 May 1992.

Organized in 1962 as a strategic missile wing, initially with a single Titan missile squadron, but later with three Minuteman missile squadrons.

90th Missile Wing

• Activated on: 1 September 1991.
• At: Francis E. Warren AFB, WY.
• Assigned to: Twentieth Air Force.
• Equipment: Minutemen IIIs and Peacekeeper.
• Reassigned to: Air Combat Command, Twentieth Air Force on 31 May 1992.

90th Strategic Missile Wing (ICBM-Minuteman)

• Redesignated on: 21 February 1963.
• Organized on: 1 July 1963.
• At: Francis E. Warren AFB, WY.
• Assigned to: Strategic Air Command.
• Equipment: Minutemen Is.
• Reassigned to: Eighth Air Force, 13th Strategic Missile Division on 1 July 1963.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 13th Strategic Missile Division on 1 July 1965.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 821st Strategic Aerospace Division on 2 July 1966.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 4th Strategic Missile Division on 30 June 1971.
• Changed equipment in: 1973 to Minutemen Is, Minuteman IIIs.
• Changed equipment in: 1975 to Minuteman IIIs.
• Changed equipment in: 1986 to Minutemen IIIs, Peacekeeper.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force on 23 August 1988.
• Redesignated on: 1 September 1991 as 90th Missile Wing.

90th Missile Wing

• Activated on: 1 September 1991.
• At: Francis E. Warren AFB, WY.
• Assigned to: Twentieth Air Force.
• Equipment: Minutemen IIIs and Peacekeeper.
• Reassigned to: Air Combat Command, Twentieth Air Force on 31 May 1992.

Supervised missile facility construction, Jul. 1963-Jul. 1964, and served as a strategic missile wing, using Minuteman I missiles from Jul. 1964 to Oct. 1974, and Minuteman III missiles from Jun. 1973. Won the SAC missile combat competition and the Blanchard Trophy in 1973 and 1984. Received Omaha Trophy for the outstanding wing in SAC 1983. Supervised Peacekeeper ICBM personnel training and facility preparation, beginning Jun. 1985. Peacekeeper was declared fully operational on 30 December. 1986. The unit won the Col. Lowell F. McAdoo trophy for best missile wing operations in SAC and the Lee R. William's trophy as SAC's outstanding missile wing in 1988.

91st Strategic Missile Wing "Poised for Peace"

• Activated on: 25 June 1968.
• At: Minot AFB, ND.
• Assigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 810th Strategic Aerospace Division.
• Equipment: Minutemen Is, Minuteman IIIs.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 4th Strategic Missile Division on 30 June 1971.
• Changed equipment in: 1972 to Minutemen IIIs.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force on 30 November 1972. (Attached to the 810th Air Division (Provisional) from 30 November 1972 to 14 January 1973).
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 47th Air Division on 15 January 1973.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 57th Air Division on 22 January 1975.
• Reassigned to: Air Combat Command, Twentieth Air Force on 31 May 1992.

Operated and maintained strategic missiles in a state of operational readiness. Won the SAC missile combat competition and the Blanchard Trophy in 1978, 1988, 1994 (742 MS), and 2000. Awarded the Lee R. Williams Memorial Missile Trophy as SAC's and later AFSPC's outstanding missile wing for 1978, 1980.