390th Fighter Squadron

390th Electronic Combat Squadron
390th Electronic Combat Squadron Patch
Active	1 June 1943 – 20 August 1946 1 January 1953 – 1 April 1959 30 April 1962 – 1 October 1982 15 December 1982 – present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Electronic Combat
Part of	Air Combat Command Twelfth Air Force 366th Fighter Wing 366th Operations Group
Garrison/HQ	Mountain Home Air Force Base
Nickname(s)	Wild Boars
Decorations	DUC PUC AFOUA w/ V Device Belgium Fourragère RVGC w/ Palm

The 390th Electronic Combat Squadron (390 ECS) is part of the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. It operates EA-6B & EA-18G aircraft conducting the electronic attack mission.

History

EF-111 Raven in flight

The 390th flew combat missions in the European Theater of Operations from 14 March 1944 – 3 May 1945 and Southeast Asia from, c. 18 November 1965 – 14 June 1972.

The squadron conducted replacement training from, 1 July 1974 – c. 18 August 1976. It trained EF-111 Raven aircrews in electronic countermeasures from, 15 December 1982 – 4 August 1992. The 390th again saw combat when it jammed radar sites during the invasion of Panama in December 1989, and the Gulf War from, 17 January 1991 – 6 March 1991. The 390 FS also deployed aircraft and aircrews to Turkey and Saudi Arabia from, 10 January–c. 11 September 1992.

It was redesignated the 390th Electronic Combat Squadron again on 27 Sep 2010.

Operations

• World War II
• Vietnam War
• Operation Just Cause
• Operation Desert Storm

Lineage

• 390th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) (1943)
• 390th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine (1943–1952)
• 390th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (1952–1958)
• 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron (1958–1982)
• 390th Electronic Combat Squadron (1982–1992)
• 390th Fighter Squadron (1992–2010)
• 390th Electronic Combat Squadron (2010–present)

Assignments

• 366th Fighter Group (1943–1946)
• 366th Tactical Fighter Wing (1953–1959)
• United States Air Forces in Europe (1962)
• 366th Tactical Fighter Wing (1962–1965)
• 6252d Tactical Fighter Wing (1965–1966)

• 35th Tactical Fighter Wing (1966)
• 366th Tactical Fighter Wing (1966–1972)
• 347th Tactical Fighter Wing (1972)
• 366th Fighter Wing (1972–1982, 1982–present)

Bases stationed

• Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia (1943)
• Bluethenthal Field, North Carolina (1943)
• RAF Membury, England (1944)
• RAF Thruxton, England (1944)
• Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, France (1944)
• Dreux, France (1944)
• Laon-Couvron Air Base, France (1944)
• Asch, Belgium (1944–1945)
• Münster, Germany (1945)
• Bayreuth, Germany (1945)

• Fritzlar, Germany (1945–1946)
• England Air Force Base, Louisiana (1953–1959)
  • Deployed: Aviano Air Base, Italy (25 December 1955 - c. 14 June 1956)
• Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France (1962–1963)
• Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico (1963–1965)
• Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam (1965–1972)
  • Deployed: Clark Air Base, Philippines (29 October - c. 17 November 1965)
• Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho (1972–1982, 1982 – present)
  • Deployed: Taegu Air Base, South Korea (19 August – 16 September 1976)

Deployed: NAS Keflavik, Iceland (19 January 2006 – 20 April 2006

Aircraft Operated

• P-47 Thunderbolt (1943–1946)
• P-51 Mustang (1953)
• F-86 Sabre (1953–1955)
• F-84 Thunderjet (1954–1958, 1962–1965)
• F-100 Super Sabre (1957–1959)
• F-4 Phantom II (1965–1972)
• F-111F then A model Aardvark (1972–1982)
• EF-111A Raven (1982–1992)
• F-15 C/D (1992–2010)
• EA-18G Growler. (2010-)

References

390th Tactical Fighter Squadron

External links

• 366th Operations Group Fact Sheet