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22nd Training Squadron
A-1H Skyraider of the 22nd SOS atNakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1970
Active	1968–1970; 1971–present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	SERE training
Part of	Air Education and Training Command
Garrison/HQ	Fairchild Air Force Base
Engagements	Viet Nam War
Decorations	Presidential Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award withcombat "V" Device
Insignia
22nd Training Squadron emblem
TS	Squadron A-1 Tail Code

The22nd Training Squadron is aUnited States Air Force unit stationed atFairchild Air Force Base, Washington. Its mission isSurvival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training. The squadron is assigned to the336th Training Group ofAir Education and Training Command.

The squadron was first organized as the22nd Special Operations Squadron and operated in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War for two years from October 1968 until September 1970. The 22nd flewDouglas A-1 Skyraiders and was assigned to the56th Special Operations Wing^[1] atNakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base.

The primary call sign used by the unit was "Zorro", for interdiction missions over theHo Chi Minh trail, and the squadron was thus nicknamed the "Zorros." (The606th Air Commando Squadron also used the "Zorro" call sign for a period of time prior to the establishment of the 22nd for its missions over the Trail flyingNorth American T-28 Trojan fighter bombers).

The3612th Combat Crew Training Squadron was organized in 1971 and assigned to the3636th Combat Crew Training Group atFairchild Air Force Base, Washington.^[2] In 1993, the two squadrons were consolidated as the22nd Crew Training Squadron. The squadron conductsSurvival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training.

22nd Special Operations Squadron

• Constituted as the22nd Special Operations Squadron on 8 October 1968 and activated (not organized)
• Organized on 25 October 1968

Inactivated on 30 September 1970

• Consolidated on 1 January 1993 with the3612th Combat Crew Training Squadron as the22nd Crew Training Squadron

22nd Training Squadron

• Organized on 1 April 1971 as the3612th Combat Crew Training Squadron
• Consolidated on 1 January 1993 with the22nd Special Operations Squadron as the22nd Crew Training Squadron

Recesignated 22nd Training Squadron on 1 April 1994

• Pacific Air Forces, 8 October 1968 (not organized)
• Thirteenth Air Force, 25 October 1968
• 56th Special Operations Wing, 31 October 1968 – 30 September 1970^[1]
• 3636th Combat Crew Training Group (later 336th Crew Training Group, 336th Training Group), 1 April 1971 – present^[2]

• Nakon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, 25 October 1968 – 30 September 1970^[3]
• Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 1 April 1971 – present^[4]

• Douglas A-1 Skyraider, 1968–1970

• List of United States Air Force squadrons
• List of United States Air Force special operations squadrons
• List of A-1 Skyraider operators

• Military in Washington (state)
• Survival training
• Training squadrons of the United States Air Force

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