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Hangar at Hill Air Force Base. Then during the 1960s, Hill AFB began to perform maintenance support for various kinds of jet warplanes, mainly the F-4 Phantom II during the Vietnam War, and then afterward, the more modern F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt II and C-130 Hercules, and also air combat missile systems and air-to-ground rockets ...
Hill Air Force Base - A major U.S. Air Force Base. Ogden Air Logistics Complex - Provides support and maintenance for weapon systems at Hill Air Force Base. Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base - Utah Air National Guard base located on the east side of the Salt Lake City International Airport.
The mission of the wing is to Fly, Fight and Win.To accomplish that mission, the wing trains and equips an F-16 squadron to be capable of worldwide mobility to perform a wide variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground fighter missions. 419th members are trained in a variety of specialties to include operations, maintenance, civil engineering, security, supply, transportation and communications.
Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana (22 June 1954 – 1 September 1957) 323d Fighter Wing; Biggs AFB, Texas (29 July 1946 – 1 December 1948) 20th Fighter Group; Brooks AFB, Texas (23 March 1946 – 13 January 1947) 363d Reconnaissance Group; Clovis/Cannon AFB, New Mexico (23 July 1951 – 1 June 1992) 37th Fighter Wing (1953) 50th Fighter Wing (1953)
On 23 November 1953, the 388th Fighter-Bomber Wing was activated as part of Tactical Air Command.The wing was reactivated following Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' promise to provide NATO with four additional tactical fighter wings to increase its defenses against the Soviet Union due to the outbreak of the Cold War.
Hanscom Air Force Base: Lincoln: Massachusetts: Air Force Materiel Command: 66th Air Base Group: Non-flying installation, hosting the Electronic Systems Center, part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. [26] Hill Air Force Base: Ogden: Utah
The 388th OG flew the F-16's 5 millionth flying hour at Hill Air Force Base 4 December 1996. In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to close Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. As a result, it would distribute the 27th Fighter Wing's F-16s to 388th OG at Hill AFB (six aircraft) and several other installations.
The squadron moved to Hill Air Force Base, Utah in 1973 and became a component of the Air Force Flight Test Center. [ 19 ] At Hill, the squadron continued conducting and supporting the Firebee as well as other remotely piloted vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise missile test missions, and supported various test operations at the Utah ...