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=== European Mission ===
[[File:Boeing KC-135 J57 takeoff.JPEG|thumb|KC-135 on takeoff]]
[[File:98thstrategicwing-patch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Emblem of the 98th Strategic Wing]]
The wing was inactivated on 25 June 1966 at Lincoln AFB, but activated the same day at [[Torrejon Air Base]], Spain replacing the '''3970th Strategic Wing''' (SW).  The 3970th SW had been established on 1 July 1957 at Torrejon as the '''3970th Air Base Group'''<ref name="Fletcher">{{cite book|last=Fletcher|first=Harry R|title=Air Force Bases , Vol. II, Air Bases Outside the United States of America|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/May/25/2001330286/-1/-1/0/AFD-100525-060.pdf |year=1993|publisher=Center for Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn= 0-912799-53-6|pages=187–190}}</ref> to support B-47 and KC-135 elements from SAC CONUS-based units deployed to Europe as part of REFLEX deployments and provide a refueling mission to [[USAFE]] tactical fighters.{{Citation needed|reason=need support for 3970 mission|date=January 2013}} Until 1 April 1966, when SAC transferred Torrejon to USAFE, the 3970th also acted as the host base organization for all USAF units at Torrejon.  The group was assigned seven support squadrons and a hospital to carry out its mission. It was redesignated the '''3970th Combat Support Group''' on 1 June 1959 and upgraded to wing status on 1 February 1964.<ref name=Fletcher/>

In 1966, SAC received authority from Headquarters USAF to discontinue the 3970th SW (a MAJCON wing) and activate an AFCON wing which could continue the lineage and history of a combat wing. On 5 June 1966, the 3970th SW was replaced by the '''98th Strategic Wing''', which assumed the personnel, equipment, and mission of the '''3970th Strategic Wing''',<ref name=Ravenstein138/>
For the next decade, the 98th had no tactical aircraft components assigned to it, but rather used attached [[Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker]]s and crews furnished by other SAC wings to provide air refueling support for the operational, alert exercise commitment of SAC, [[Tactical Air Command]], [[United States Air Forces Europe]] and [[NATO]]. These aircraft were deployed on temporary duty as the '''Spanish Tanker Task Force'''.  The wing's operational area included the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, most of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.<ref name=Ravenstein138/>

The Wing maintained a detachment at [[RAF Upper Heyford]] (relocated to [[RAF Mildenhall]] in April 1970) supporting RC-135 Reconnaissance Aircraft, and supporting KC-135 Tankers deployed from the Spanish Tanker Task Force.  In October 1976, the [[306th Strategic Wing]], based at [[Ramstein AB]], West Germany assumed this support task and the 98th phased down at Torrejon and was inactivated 31 December 1976.<ref name=Ravenstein138/>