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BRAC actions affect Air Force Reserve locations

  • Published
  • By Lt. Col. Bob Thompson
  • Air Force Reserve Command Public Affairs
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --  Base Realignment and Closure actions affect the following Air Force Reserve Command locations:

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, La. – Fifteen A-10 aircraft from the New Orleans Air Reserve Station’s 926th Fighter Wing go to Whiteman AFB, Mo., and Barksdale AFB, La. Mission-support positions relocate to Buckley AFB, Colo., and the wing’s headquarters staff jobs go to Nellis AFB, Nev.

Barksdale AFB – Air Force Reserve Command establishes 24 primary assigned A-10 aircraft at the 917th Wing by gaining some of New Orleans’ aircraft.

Whiteman AFB – The Reserve establishes 24 primary assigned A-10 aircraft at the 442nd FW by gaining some of New Orleans’ aircraft.

Nellis AFB – By adding the headquarters slots from New Orleans, the Reserve will establish a wing headquarters at Nellis to manage its growing number of units at this Regular Air Force location.

Buckley AFB – The base gains a Reserve group headquarters by adding the mission-support jobs from New Orleans. The Air Reserve Personnel Center relocates from Buckley Annex to Buckley AFB.

Hill AFB, Utah – Fifteen F-16 aircraft from the Reserve’s 419th FW go to Reserve units at NAS JRB Fort Worth, Carswell Field, Texas, and Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla. The wing converts to a Reserve associate unit with reservists sharing the Regular Air Force equipment.

Homestead ARB – The Reserve establishes 24 primary assigned F-16 aircraft at the 482nd FW.

Carswell Field – The Reserve establishes 24 primary assigned F-16 aircraft at the 301st FW.

Luke AFB, Ariz. – Fifteen Reserve F-16s from the 944th FW will be transferred and retired. Many of the wing jobs continue at the base, and the wing forms an associate unit partnership with the Regular Air Force wing.

Gen. Mitchell International Airport Air Reserve Station, Wis. – The Reserve moves the 440th Airlift Wing’s operations, maintenance and mission support jobs as well as all C-130 aircraft to Pope Army Airfield, N.C.

Pope AAF – The Air Force establishes 16 primary assigned C-130H aircraft as an active associate unit at Pope AAF. The site receives the 440th AW ops, maintenance and mission-support job positions from Gen. Mitchell ARS.

Niagara Falls IAP ARS, N.Y. – The Air National Guard forms an associate wing with the AFRC’s 914th AW at Niagara.

Portland International Airport, Ore. – The 939th ARW’s KC-135 aircraft go to March ARB, Calif., and Tinker AFB, Okla. Many ops and maintenance jobs go to Tinker AFB and several hundred go along with mission-support positions to Vandenberg AFB, Calif.

Vandenberg AFB – The base receives the Portland mission-support positions.

Tinker AFB – The base receives a portion of the ANG’s operations and maintenance positions from the 137th AW at Will Rogers Air Guard Station, and the Air Force changes AFRC’s 507th ARW to an AFRC/ANG associate wing. The Air Force establishes the wing with 12 primary assigned KC-135 aircraft, and the base receives aircraft from Portland’s 939th ARW.

March ARB – The Air Force establishes 12 primary assigned KC-135R aircraft in the 452nd Air Mobility Wing.

Selfridge ANG Base, Mich. – All of the KC-135 aircraft in the Reserve’s 927th ARW remain but are transferred to the ANG. All wing jobs move to support a Reserve associate unit with the Regular Air Force’s 6th AMW at MacDill AFB, Fla.

MacDill AFB – The Air Force builds a Reserve associate unit with 16 primary assigned KC-135R aircraft and the manpower slots from Selfridge ANGB.

Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. – The Air Force establishes 16 primary assigned KC-135R aircraft at the Reserve’s 916th ARW and builds an active associate unit with Regular Air Force personnel.

Beale AFB, Calif. – All of the KC-135 aircraft in the Reserve’s 940th ARW relocate. The 940th ARW headquarters and mission-support elements remain. The 940th ARW converts to a Global Hawk mission.

Moody AFB, Ga. – The Air Force relocates positions to follow the transfer of the flying mission – Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals – to Columbus AFB, Miss.; Vance AFB, Okla.; and Laughlin, Randolph and Sheppard AFBs in Texas.

Pittsburgh IAP ARS, Pa. – DOD is exploring the requirement for a regional joint readiness center and current DOD support to civilian authorities.

Westover ARB, Mass. – The base hosts a new Army Reserve maneuver enhancement brigade headquarters and an Army Reserve sustainment brigade headquarters.

Dobbins ARB, Ga. – AFRC accepts management of some of the facilities from the closure of NAS Atlanta.

Denver, Colo. – The Air Reserve Personnel Center relocates to Buckley AFB. (AFRC News Service)