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U.S. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Robert Sweet, 476th Fighter Group A-10C Thunderbolt II pilot, performs a pre-flight inspection during a surge exercise at Moody AFB.
In 1940, when a group of Valdosta and Lowndes County business leaders and residents began looking for a way to help in the growing war e orts, no one could have imagined the tremendous impact of their e orts 75 years later.
Local leaders secured a 9,300-acre tract of land and construction began on what was then called Moody Field in September 1941. On Nov. 25, just days before the attacks on Pearl Harbor, 140 military personnel arrived at what is now Moody Air Force Base.
Today, Moody is comprised of more than 5,500 active duty and reservists and civilian employees assigned to 30 squadrons. The airmen of Team Moody y and maintain the HC-130J Combat King II, the HH-60G Pave Hawk, and the A-10C Thunderbolt II, which had a combined total of approximately 40,000 ying hours and 14,500 sorties in 2015.
An Air Combat Command (ACC) installation, Moody has been home to the 23d Wing, America’s famous Flying Tigers, since 2006 and the 93d Air Ground Operations Wing since 2008.
U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO BY AIRMAN 1ST CLASS
JANIQUA P. ROBINSON
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