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Hunter Army Airfield (IATA: SVN, ICAO: KSVN, FAA LID: SVN), located in Savannah, Georgia, United States, is a military airfield and subordinate installation to Fort Stewart located in Hinesville, Georgia. Hunter features a runway that is 11,375 feet (3,468 m) long and an aircraft parking area that is more than 350 acres (1.4 km 2).
Map of the Army ROTC Brigades. The 6th Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade is an Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps brigade based at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia.It provides training support and oversight to all Army ROTC and Junior ROTC units in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Puerto Rico.
The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved on 6 July 1967. On 21 October 1972, HHC, 260th was transferred to Fort Stewart. The relocation was short lived as the 260th relocated to its current residence, Hunter Army Airfield, on 1 July 1974. The unit did not see service in the Vietnam War. The unit did see service in Urgent Fury (Grenada)
On 8 December 1941, as the Columbia Army Air Base, Columbia Army Airfield's mission was a training base for B-25 Mitchell crews. One of the earliest units to train at Columbia AAB was the 17th Bombardment Group , which arrived on 9 February 1942.
Columbia Army Airfield's mission was changed become a training base for B-25 Mitchell medium bomber aircrews. In addition to the main facility, Columbia AAB had jurisdiction over several satellite and auxiliary airfields in support of the bomber training mission: Barnwell Army Airfield, Barnwell, South Carolina; Congaree Army Airfield, Eastover
Detachment 2 (GA ARNG), Army Aviation Support Facility #3, Hunter Army Airfield [2] Company A (USAR), Simmons Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina; Company B (AL ARNG), Birmingham Air National Guard Base, Birmingham, Alabama Detachment 1 (GA ARNG), Army Aviation Support Facility #3, Hunter Army Airfield [2] Detachment 2 (GA ...
Its Company B was reorganized and redesignated on 16 November 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 159th Aviation; however, it was inactivated 10 years later on 15 September 1997 before being redesignated on 16 October 1997 as Company B, 159th Aviation, and activated at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia.
CGAS Savannah was commissioned in the summer of 1963 on what was then known as Hunter Air Force Base, which became Hunter Army Airfield in 1967. In 1964, the Coast Guard's original HH-52A Basic Operational Training Unit (BOTU) was established in Savannah.