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Moody Air Force Base is listed as a census-designated place (CDP) and is the official name for an area covering the residential population of the Moody Air Force Base, in Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. Moody Air Force Base was first listed as an unincorporated place in the 1970 census [21] and designated a CDP in the 1980 census. [21]
The group is assigned to the 442d Fighter Wing, at Whiteman AFB, Missouri. 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).
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the consolidation of the Air Force's KC-135 and B-1 force led to the reallocation of the unit's bombers and tankers to McConnell AFB, Kansas, and Ellsworth AFB, S.D. The group was also home to F-16CJ Fighter Falcon aircraft from 1992 to March 2007.
Aug. 9—MOODY AIR FORCE BASE — A lawmaker met with local leaders Tuesday about preparing Moody Air Force Base for an upcoming infusion of new aircraft. Sen. John Ossoff, D-Ga., discussed plans ...
Aircraft from the 23rd Wing conducted a surge exercise 22 May 2017, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The exercise demonstrated the wing's ability to rapidly deploy combat ready forces across the globe. The 23rd Wing maintains and operates A-10C Thunderbolt IIs, HH-60G Pave Hawks, and HC-130J Combat King II aircraft for precision attack, personnel ...
Moody Air Force Base conducted a change of command ceremony July 6 to send off Col. Russell "Bones" Cook and hand off his position and duty as commander of the 23rd Wing, home of the "Flying ...
On 1 August 1999, Detachment 1, 820 SFG activated at Moody AFB, Georgia to plan and execute relocation from Lackland AFB and to constitute three new Security Forces Squadrons. On 14 March 2001, the official activation of the new Group occurred at Moody AFB under Air Combat Command (ACC) as a direct reporting unit.
The squadron upgraded to the F-86D Sabre interceptor in 1953 at Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York, where the squadron remained for three years before moving to Dow Air Force Base, Maine. Upon return to Maine in 1959 the squadron converted to the McDonnell F-101B Voodoo supersonic interceptor and the F-101F operational and conversion trainer.