Lineage
- Constituted as the 555th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (Separate) on 28 February 1942
- Activated on 4 July 1942
- Redesignated as 555th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion on 11 March 1943
- Converted from the Signal Corps to the Air Corps and redesignated 501st Tactical Control Group on 31 December 1945
- Inactivated on 25 September 1947
- Redesignated 501st Aircraft Control and Warning Group on 11 May 1949
- Activated on 10 June 1949
- Redesignated 501st Tactical Control Group on 16 March 1952
- Redesignated 501st Tactical Control Wing on 18 December 1957
- Inactivated on 18 November 1960
- Redesignated 521st Tactical Control Wing 31 July 1985 (remained inactive)
- Redesignated 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing on 18 August 2008
- Activated on 4 September 2008
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“I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over sleep and life and death
Till sun is powerless to decoy
A single seed above the earth:
Lineage of sorrow: lineage of joy....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)