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The group is a partnership between the Air Force Materiel Command and the Air Force Reserve Command and is the operational supervisor of all the depot flight test units. The group manages five squadrons and two flights is made up of 140 full-time Airmen, 78 traditional reservist and nine civil servants.
The federal reserve component of the United States Air Force, AFRC has approximately 450 aircraft assigned for which it has sole control, as well as access to several hundred additional active duty USAF aircraft via AFRC "Associate" wings that are collocated with active duty Air Force wings, sharing access to those same active duty Air Force aircraft.
The 477th Fighter Group was reactivated on 1 October 2007 as the first Air Force Reserve unit to fly, maintain, and support the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.The group is an associate unit responsible for recruiting, training, developing and retaining Citizen Airmen to support 3d Wing and Air Force expeditionary unit mission requirements.
The 476th Fighter Group is an Air Force Reserve associate unit linked to the active duty 23d Fighter Group (23 FG) at Moody. The 442 oversees the 476th's administrative and mission-support needs not provided by Moody AFB's host active duty wing, the 23rd Wing (23 WG).
Although nominally a heavy bomber unit, the group trained with North American T-6 Texans and Beechcraft T-7 Navigators and T-11 Kansans [3] [4] [5] under the supervision of the 416th AAF Base Unit (later the 2347th Air Force Reserve Flying Training Center) of Air Defense Command (ADC) at Long Beach and the 419th AAF Base Unit (later the 2348th ...
It conducted medical training for the Air Force. It was previously active with the 442d Tactical Airlift Wing at Tinker Air Force Base , Oklahoma. The group was activated in January 1963 as the 937th Troop Carrier Group when Continental Air Command formed groups to improve the mobilization capability of its dispersed troop carrier squadrons .
In 1979, the 928th started a regular rotation with other Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard C-130 units under Operation CORONET OAK that took them to Howard AFB, Panama to support the operations of the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) across Central and South America. Rotations to the Central American country lasted 2–3 weeks at a time.
The squadron is one of Air Force Reserve Command's two air operations center augmentation units. It operates the AN/USQ-163 Air Operations Center weapon system, the senior element of the theater air control system. It provides the Combined Forces Air Component Commander with the capability to plan, task, execute and assess airpower and space ...