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Moody AFB is located in Lowndes County
Population: 8,398 Moody Air Force Base is home to the 347th Rescue Wing. The 347th Rescue Wing is comprised of five groups, four of which are located at Moody Air Force Base and one at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. The 347th Mission Support, 347th Operations, 347th Medical, and 347th Maintenance, are located at Moody, and the 563rd Rescue Group at Davis-Monthan. Assigned to the 347th Operations Group is one HH-60G rescue squadron, one HC-130P rescue squadron, and one pararescue squadron. Additionally there are 14 support squadrons and two major tenant units.
The wing has operational control over the 563rd Rescue Group, a Geographically Separated Unit (GSU) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, as well as the 563rd Rescue Group, Operating Location-Alpha, a GSU at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
MISSION. The mission of the 347th Rescue Wing is to organize, train and employ a combat-ready, HC-130 and HH-60 rescue wing consisting of approximately 4,054 military and civilian personnel including GSUs in Nevada and Arizona. The wing executes worldwide peacetime and combat search and rescue (CSAR) operations in support of humanitarian and U.S. national security interests, and in support of the global war on terrorism (GWOT). Moody also hosts and supports Air Education and Training Command’s (AETC) 479th Flying Training Group and Air Combat Command’s (ACC) 820th Contingency Response Group in all operations.
Moody’s aircraft include the HH-60G the HC-130P. The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter provides a combat search and rescue platform for the USAF through its ability to operate in a vast array of rescue scenarios. The HC-130P flies low-level missions into hostile territory to effect rescues and to provide air refueling for our rescue helicopters.
POPULATION. The base has approximately 3715 military and 339 civilian employees. Population impact on the local community:
Military and family 8,398
Civilians and family 3,000 (est)
Retirees and family 15,000 (est)
TOTAL 26,398
This number is even more significant when compared to the Valdosta population of 48,000 and Lowndes County with 85,000.
ECONOMIC IMPACT. In FY 02, Moody generated a $186.8 million dollar payroll for the local economy. Construction, services and commodities contracts totaled almost $55.2 million. Other expenditures such as pay from the 1,749 secondary jobs created totaled $41.4 million. TOTAL - $283 million.
HISTORY. The base was named in memory of Maj. George Putnam Moody, an early Air Force pioneer killed in May 1941 while serving with the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kan. At the time of his death, the major was working on the inspection board for AT-10 transitional trainers which were later sent to Moody.
The base had its beginning in 1940 when a group of concerned Valdosta and Lowndes County citizens began searching for a way to assist the expanding defense program. The citizens rallied interest in the War Department for a 9,300 acre tract known as the Lakeland Flatwoods Project, northeast of Valdosta. On May 14, 1941, the War Department was granted exclusive use of the land by the Agriculture Department.
On Feb. 19, 1942, the Moody Field Advanced Pilot Training School began training 50 Army Air Corps cadets in the Beech AT-10. Following World War II, Moody was placed on inactive status in November 1947, but was reactivated in May 1951 when the Korean conflict created a need for more Air Force pilots.
The base’s primary mission in its early years was to meet the requirements of the Air Force Pilot Instrument School and Instrument Flying School. In September 1975, the 347th Tactical Fighter Wing, belonging to Tactical Air Command, relocated from Thailand to Moody. In December 1975, the 347th TFW formally replaced the 38th Flying Training Wing, flying the F-4E Phantom II. Moody won the Commander-in-Chief's Installation Excellence Award for 1991, and the 1994 Verne Orr Award, which is presented by the Air Force Association to the unit that most effectively uses human resources to accomplish its mission. In June 1997, the wing was awarded the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for the eighth time in its illustrious history. On July 1, 1994, the Air Force converted the 347th Fighter Wing to the 347th Wing, a force projection, airland composite wing. On May 8, 2001, the 347th Wing converted again to the 347th Rescue Wing, becoming the Air Force’s only active-duty combat search and rescue wing. On Oct 1, 2003, the 347th RQW was realigned from ACC to AFSOC in an effort to bring all CSAR assets under the same command.
MISSION CHANGES. Amidst the transition to a combat search and rescue wing, Moody gained two sizeable tenant units, the 479th Flying Training Group and the 820th Security Forces Group, while transitioning out of its operational fighter force.
The 70th Fighter Squadron inactivated in June 2000, and operational control of the 23rd Fighter Group at Pope AFB, N.C. transferred to the 4th Fighter Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C.
In Oct. 2000, the 69th Fighter Squadron began inactivating and was officially inactivated in February 2001. The 68th Fighter Squadron followed on April 30, 2001. July 31, 2000, the 479th Flying Training Group activated at Moody as a tenant unit. The Group consists of four operational training squadrons. The 49th and 435th Flying Training Squadrons operate the newly upgraded T-38C aircraft, and the 3rd Flying Training Squadron, which activated on April 3, 2001, operates the T-6A “Texan II” aircraft. The Group conducts initial Joint Primary Aircraft Training (JPATS) and Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF) for the Air Force’s newest generation of aviators. The 39th Flying Training Squadron, part of the Air Force Reserve Command, activated on April 2, 2001, under the 479th FTG, and provides reserve instructor pilots to augment their active duty counterparts. The 479th reports directly to the AETC based at Randolph
