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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 ...
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.
In January 1997, the Air Education and Training Command Training Support Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah transferred its flying related support functions to the Air Education and Training Command Air Operations Squadron at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Three months later, on 1 April, it moved to Randolph, where it assumed the assets of ...
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.
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and post exchange/PX or base exchange/BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army, Air Force, and Space Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more nationwide and in more than 30 countries and four U.S. territories.
It is located at Hill Air Force Base. The former Ogden Air Logistics Center was re-designated as the Ogden Air Logistics Complex on 12 July 2012. Since 2012 the Complex has supervised the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
In 1988, TEAD acquired the general supply storage mission from Pueblo Army Depot. In 1955 Tooele Army Depot took over the rail equipment repair shop at Hill Air Force Base near Roy, Utah; and the site operated as a satellite of TEAD until 1994. [1] In BRAC 1993, it lost its troop support mission, maintenance and storage missions.
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.