84th Combat Sustainment Wing

History

Air Force reserve

The May 1949 Air Force reserve program called for a new type of unit, the corollary unit, which was a reserve unit integrated with an active-duty unit. The plan was viewed as the best method to train reservists by mixing them with an existing regular unit to perform duties alongside the regular unit, using the regular unit’s aircraft. Its objective was to permit reservists to be employed immediately upon mobilization, either as individuals or as a unit. However, corollary unit training had to be balanced against the regular unit’s mission, and deployment and exercise participation interrupted training activities.

In this program, the 84th Fighter Wing was established as a corollary unit of the 52d Fighter Wing at Mitchel Air Force Base, New York but was not manned until it moved to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey later that year. Even after its move, the wing remained undermanned and performed little training. and it was inactivated.

Air Force Materiel Command

Prior to 2005, Program Executive Officers (PEO)s managing Air Force systems were generally located in Washington. Program managers in field units reported to the PEO for each program. As a result of a study begun in 2003 the Air Force decided to consolidate PEOs and locate them at the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) centers. The reorganization was known as the Air Force Materiel Command Transformation. In conjunction with the new organization, the traditional center directorates were replaced by wings and groups.

In this reorganization, the wing was reactivated in 2005 as the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing. The wing was originally assigned four functional groups, but all but one of the groups was inactivated by 2008. The wing's mission was to 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.

After analyzing the results of the Air Force Materiel Command Transformation reorganization, the Air Force announced the Air Force Acquisition Improvement Plan in May 2009 and four months later announced the initiative would include a gradual return to the Directorate organizational model.

Lineage

• Constituted as the 84th Fighter Wing, All Weather on 16 May 1949 : Activated in the reserve on 1 June 1949 : Redesignated 84th Fighter All-Weather Wing on 1 March 1950 : Ordered into active service on 1 June 1951 : Inactivated on 2 June 1951. : Redesignated 84th Combat Sustainment Wing on 15 January 2005 : Activated 24 February 2005 : Inactivated in May 2014

Assignments

• First Air Force, 1 June 1949 (attached to 52d Fighter Wing)
• Eastern Air Defense Force, 1 September 1950 – 2 June 1951 (remained attached to 52d Fighter-Interceptor Wing)
• Ogden Air Logistics Center, 24 February 2005 – c. May 2014

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, 24 February 2005 – c. May 2014
• 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
• 784th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006 – 30 June 2010
• 884th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006
• 984th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006 – 28 April 2008

Stations

• Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, 1 June 1949
• McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, 10 October 1949 – 2 June 1951
• Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 24 February 2005 – c. May 2014

References

Notes

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Bibliography

References

1. No byline. (23 November 2010). "84th Combat Sustainment Wing". USAF History.com.
2. Cantwell, pp. 69, 73
3. Cantwell, p. 79
4. Ravenstein, pp. 119–20
5. It had no aircraft assigned, but flew [[North American F-82 Twin Mustang]] aircraft of the 52d Wing. However, during its sole active duty encampment it had only four pilots qualified to fly this aircraft. It was [[mobilization|called to active duty]] in 1951 for twenty-one months, but the day after it was activated its personnel were transferred to the 52d Wing,Cornett & Johnson, p. 63
6. (1 July 2010). "ASC inactivates aeronautical systems wings". 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs.
7. "Aerospace Sustainment Directorate takes on platform program offices". Hilltop Times.
8. Lineage information through 1977 in Ravenstein, p. 119
9. Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, January 2005, Maxwell AFB, AL
10. – 28 April 2006Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, April 2006, Maxwell AFB, AL
11. – 28 April 2008Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, April 2008, Maxwell AFB, AL