143d Airlift Squadron was active from 1939-2019 and was a part of the Air National Guard.
1939Present Air National Guard 
It is one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II. 143d Operations Group, 1 October 1995  Present 143d Tactical Airlift Group, 1 October 1975 143d Special Operations Group, 1 July 1968 Gained by: Tactical Air Command, 1 July 1963 Gained by: Military Air Transport Service Rhode Island Air National Guard, 1 November 1956 102d Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 1 September 1952  30 June 1956 102d Fighter Wing, 1 November 1950 102d Fighter Group, 1 September 1948 5th Photographic (later Reconnaissance) Group, 15 November 1944  28 October 1945 I (later III) Tactical Air Division, 12 April 1944 II Tactical Air Division, 29 March 1944 69th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 9 October 1943 73d Reconnaissance (later Tactical Reconnaissance) Group, 27 June 1943 26th Observation (later Reconnaissance) Group, 1 September 1941 VI Army Corps, 30 December 1940 First Corps Area, 25 November 1940 Rhode Island National Guard, 13 October 1939 
