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84th Combat Sustainment Wing Air Force Materiel Command
84th Combat Sustainment Wing
Emblem of the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing
Active 1949-1951, 2005-
Country Flag of the United States United States
Branch Flag of the United States Air Force United States Air Force
Type Equipment Support
Part of Air Force Material Command
Garrison/HQ Hill Air Force Base

The 84th Combat Sustainment Wing (CSW) is a wing of the United States Air Force based at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

Mission[]

Provide system support manager functions for air-to-surface munitions, and multiple Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence (C3I) systems, and supply chain management for space systems, C3I systems, landing gear, power systems and multiple aircraft programs.

Subordinate organization[]

History[]

The 84th Fighter Wing was established in 1949 as a reserve corollary unit of the 52d Fighter Wing at Mitchel AFB, New York but was not manned until it moved to McGuire AFB, New Jersey later that year.[1] Even after its move, the wing remained undermanned and performed little training.[1] It had no aircraft assigned, but flew North American F-82 Twin Mustang aircraft of the 52d Wing. However during its only active duty encampment it had only four pilots qualified to fly this aircraft.[1] It was called to active duty in 1951 for twenty-one months, but the day after it was activated its personnel were transferred to the 52d Fighter Wing.[2]

The wing was reactivated in 2005 as part of the Air Force Materiel Command Transformation, which converted its traditional staff agency organizations into wings, groups, and squadrons. It was originally assigned four functional groups, but all but one of the groups was inactivated by 2008.

The wing is also authorized the honors and history of its subordinate 84th Combat Sustainment Group, earned as a fighter group during World War II[3] and as a component of Air Defense Command[4] during the Cold War.

Lineage[]

  • Constituted as the 84th Fighter Wing, All Weather on 16 May 1949[1]
Activated in the Reserve on 1 June 1949
Redesignated as the 84th Fighter All-Weather Wing on 1 March 1950
Ordered into active service on 1 June 1951
Inactivated on 2 June 1951.[2]
Redesignated 84th Combat Sustainment Wing on 15 January 2005
Activated 24 February 2005

Assignments[]

Components[]

  • 84th Air Base Group: 1 June 1949 - 2 June 1951
  • 84th Commodities Sustainment Group: 24 February 2005 - 28 April 2006
  • 84th Fighter Group, All Weather (later 84th Fighter All-Weather Group, 84th Space and Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Sustainment Group, 84th Combat Sustainment Group): 1 June 1949 - 2 June 1951,[1] 24 February 2005 -
  • 84th Maintenance & Supply Group: 1 June 1949 - 2 June 1951
  • 84th Materiel Sustainment Group: 24 February 2005 - 28 April 2006

  • 84th Medical Group: 1 June 1949 - 2 June 1951
  • 84th Specialized Management Sustainment Group: 24 February 2005 - 28 April 2006
  • 784th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006 - 30 June 2010
  • 884th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006 - 28 April 2008
  • 984th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006 - 28 April 2008

Stations[]

  • Mitchel AFB, NY, 1 June 1949[1]
  • McGuire AFB, NJ, 10 October 1949 - 2 June 1951[1]
  • Hill AFB, UT, 24 February 2005 -

References[]

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947-1977. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0-912799-12-9. http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/combat_wings.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cornett, Lloyd H; Johnson, Mildred W (1980). A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946–1980. Peterson AFB, CO: Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center. http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf. 
  3. Maurer, Maurer, ed (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. pp. 150–151. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/af_combat_units_wwii.pdf. 
  4. Cornett & Johnson, p. 74

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