| Initial Listing of USAF Support to Katrina Operations |
| (From reports as of Sept. 5, 2005; arranged alphabetically by base.) |
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| Unit (Parent) | Home Base | Action |
| 89th Medical Group | Andrews AFB, Md. | Assist patient transfer |
| Barksdale AFB, La. (ACC) | Barksdale AFB, La. | Act as federal staging area |
| 2nd Logistics Readiness Sq. (ACC) | Barksdale AFB, La. | Ferry fuel trucks and support vehicles to maintain SAR helicopters |
| 9th Reconnaissance Wing (ACC) | Beale AFB, Calif. | Fly U-2 to photograph area for FEMA |
| Bolling AFB, D.C. | Bolling AFB, D.C. | Provide volunteer airmen to fix up building in D.C. to house vets displaced from Gulfport, Miss., retirement home. |
| 55th Rescue Squadron (AFSOC) | Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. | Provide four HH-60s and 100 airmen for SAR |
| 563rd Rescue Group (AFSOC) | Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., Nellis AFB, Nev. | Provide nine HH-60s, air crews, pararescuemen, and maintainers for SAR |
| AFSPC units | F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., Malmstrom AFB, Mont., Minot AFB, N.D., Vandenberg AFB, Calif. | Provide UH-1Ns and crews |
| 49th Materiel Maintenance Group (ACC) | Holloman AFB, N.M. | Set up bare base airfield operations |
| 16th Special Operations Wing (AFSOC) | Hurlburt Field, Fla. | Provide HH-60s and crews for SAR |
| 823rd RED HORSE Squadron (ACC) | Hurlburt Field, Fla. | Provide 100 combat engineers who bring supplies, remove debris, create shelters |
| 16th Special Ops Sq. (AFSOC) | Hurlburt Field, Fla. | Fly MC-130P Combat Shadow with team of combat controllers to help set up New Orleans airport |
| 122nd Air Support Operations Sq. (ANG) | JRB New Orleans (operating from Camp Beauregard, La.) | Operate and monitor satellite radio link to 40 tactical air control party airmen in New Orleans relaying disaster relief information |
| 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (AFRC) | Keesler AFB, Miss. | Track hurricane |
| 403rd Airlift Wing (AFRC) | Keesler AFB, Miss. (flying out of Asheville, N.C.) | Ferry supplies to Keesler |
| Critical Care Air Transport & Obstetrics Teams (AETC) | Lackland AFB, Tex. | Aid aeromedical evacuation (some 31 women in last month of pregnancy and 25 critical care patients) |
| 433rd AW (AFRC) | Lackland AFB, Tex. | Evacuate sick and injured |
| Lackland AFB, Tex. | Lackland AFB, Tex. | Serve as aeromedical evacuation hub |
| 452nd AMW (AFRC) | March ARB, Calif. | Transport water rescue teams |
| 908th AW (AFRC) | Maxwell AFB, Ala. | Supply two C-130s to move people and cargo |
| Maxwell AFB, Ala. (AETC) | Maxwell AFB, Ala. | Act as federal staging area |
| 621st CRW (AMC) | McGuire AFB, N.J. | Set up aircraft and cargo operations at New Orleans airport |
| 305th AMW (AMC) | McGuire AFB, N.J. | Transport contingency response groups |
| 347th Rescue Wing (AFSOC) | Moody AFB, Ga. | Provide HH-60s and crews for SAR; C-130s for various tasks |
| 55th Wing (ACC) | Offutt AFB, Neb. | Fly OC-135B to photograph area |
| 920th Rescue Wing (AFRC) | Patrick AFB, Fla. | Supply three HH-60G Pave Hawks for search & rescue |
| 5th Combat Communications Group (ACC) | Robins AFB, Ga. | Setup communications |
| 139th AW (ANG) | Rosecrans Arpt., Mo. | Fly two C-130s, transporting 31 children and families to St. Joseph, Mo., children's hospital |
| Tanker Airlift Control Center (AMC) | Scott AFB, Ill. | Generate air mobility missions |
| 932nd AW (AFRC) | Scott AFB, Ill. | Provide aeromedical evacuation crews and C-9 to shuttle active-duty medical teams |
| 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AMC) | Scott AFB, Ill. | Transport patients |
| 105th Airlift Wing (ANG) | Stewart ANGB, N.Y. | Fly one C-5 to California to pickup SAR team and supplies and deliver to Louisiana |
| 349th Air Mobility Wing (AFRC) | Travis AFB, Calif. | Transport water rescue teams |
| 615th Contingency Response Wing (AMC) | Travis AFB, Calif. | Set up aircraft and cargo operations at Lafayette airport |
| 60th AMW (AMC) | Travis AFB, Calif. | Transport tanker airlift control element |
| Tyndall AFB, Fla. | Tyndall AFB, Fla. | Send 30 cooks to Keesler |
| 439th AW (AFRC) | Westover ARB, Mass. | Fly two C-5s to California to pickup SAR teams and supplies and deliver to Louisiana |
