Editing Nellis Air Force Base (section)

=====4520th Combat Crew Training Wing=====
[[File:4536th Fighter Weapons Squadron - North American F-100D-30-NA Super Sabre 55-3703.jpg|thumb|The Nellis control tower behind a 4536th F-100D ("WB" tail code). In July 1968 the first tail codes appeared on Nellis-based aircraft:<ref name="Martin">Martin, Patrick (1994). ''Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings''. Schiffer Military Aviation History. {{ISBN|0-88740-513-4}}.</ref> "WC" (4537th [[F-105]]), "WD" (4538th [[F-4C]]), & "WF" (4539th F-111). |alt=|left]]

The 4520th Combat Crew Training Wing was designated from the 4520th CCTG on 1 May 1961, and the Combat Crew training squadrons were renumbered.{{r|Mueller}} The 4537th Fighter Weapons Squadron had been assigned [[F-105D Thunderchief]]s in March 1961, and the wing taught veteran pilots in all phases of fighter weapon employment: air-to-air gunnery, rocketry, conventional and nuclear bombing, aerial refueling, and combat navigation. The [[F-4 Phantom II]] Instructor Course began in mid-1965{{r|Wilman}} and during the [[Vietnam War]], experienced combat pilots were used as Fighter Weapons instructors at Nellis. On 1 January 1966 the [[USAF Fighter Weapons School]] was activated at Nellis with F-100, F-4, and F-105 divisions and on 1 September 1966, Fighter Weapons School elements and the 4520th CCTW merged to activate the 4525th Fighter Weapons Wing.{{r|Mueller}}