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Columbus Air Force Base SNAPSHOT a Summary of Facts and Figures About Columbus Air Force Base Columbus Air Force Base SNAPSHOT A summary of facts and figures about Columbus Air Force Base. July 2016 What We Believe … • Core Values: Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do • Mission: Produce Pilots, Advance Airmen, Feed the Fight • Vision: The premier pilot training wing and community developing the world’s best Airmen. • Motto: BLAZE--Building Leaders, Advancing Integrity, Service before Self and Excellence in All We Do • Commander’s Guidance: Core values and standards are non-negotiable; Know the mission and your role in accomplishing it; Make everything you touch better Key Leaders CAFB Basics • Established: Aug 12, 1941 • Commander: Col Douglas C. Gosney • Total Force Strength: 2, 749 • Vice Commander: Col James L. Fisher • • Base Size: 4,931 Acres Command Chief: CMSgt Rita F. Felton • Operations Group Commander: Col Stan D. Lawrie o T-6 Auxiliary Field: 1,082 Acres • Medical Group Commander: Col Imelda M. Reedy • Aircraft in Inventory: 234 • Mission Support Group Commander: Col Anthony J. Sansano • Students Graduated in FY15: 410 • Maintenance Director: Mr. William Harner CAFB Demographics Average Age : Race/Ethnic Group (%)* Totals: 2,492 • Enlisted: 28 yrs • Caucasian: 73.7 • Civilian: 1,219 • Officer: 33 yrs* • Black: 13.7 ◌ Contract: 522 • Age 26 or Below: 50.4% • Am Indian/Alaskan: 1.4 ◌ Civil Service: 554 • Asian: 3.9 ◌ Other: 143 Average Total Service: • Hispanic/Latino: 2.7 • • • Enlisted: 434 Enlisted: 7.7 yrs Hawaiian/Pacific Is: 0.7 • • • Officers: 839 Officer: 9.5 yrs* Other: 3.9 ◌ Students: 441 ◌ International: 60 Active Force (%): *Permanent party only, figures do not include • ◌ Nations Represented: 26 Men: 85 student pilot population, unless noted. • Women: 15 CAFB Economic Impact (FY15) CAFB Aircraft Inventory: 234 aircraft Total Impact: $249.6 M • T-6A Texan II: ……..100 • Payroll: $134.2 M (Military, Contract Personnel, • T-1A Jayhawk: …….47 Civil Service, Base Exchange, Commissary, Credit • T-38C Talon:……......87 (SUPT: 58 ◌ IFF: 29) Union, Non-Appropriated Funds) • A-29 Super Tucano: 20 (81 FS, Moody AFB, GA) • Indirect Jobs (887): $32.6 M • Annual Expenditure: $82.9 M CAFB Sorties and Hours (FY15) o Contracts, Supplies, and Equipment: $66.7 M o Construction: $9.8 M Sorties Flown T-6A Texan II: .............. 29,591 o Misc. Expenditures: $6.4 M o o T-1A Jayhawk: ………... 10,680 Education Levels o T-38C: ………………….. 8,995 . IFF: ….………… 4,248 Enlisted -Highest Attained: Officer-Highest: • Total Sorties: ………….…..…….. 53,514 • AA or Equivalent Hours: 48% • Advanced/ Professional • B.A., B.S., or higher: 11% degrees: 30% Hours Flown o T-6A Texan II: ………… 38,193 T-1A Jayhawk: …........ 22,431 o Students Trained (FY15): 427 o T-38C Talon: …………. 9,404 . • SUPT Graduates: 303 • IFF: 90 IFF: …………... 3,790 • Total Hours: ……………………… 73,818 ◌ ALP/Intl Graduates: 34 This fact sheet was prepared by Columbus Air Force Base Public Affairs, 14 FTW/PA (662) 434-7068 CAFB History Where We Live On June 26, 1941 the War Department approved • Off Base: 70.4% establishment of an Army Airfield for pilot training in the • On Base: 29.6% Columbus area. On Aug. 12, 1941, Columbus officials leased • the tract of land to the United States for $1 per acre per On Base Population: 1448 year. The base began as a training facility for fighters and o Active Duty Population: 819 bombers, controlled by Southeastern Air Corps Training Unaccompanied Quarters Center at Maxwell Field, Alabama. On Jan. 13, 1942, 100 • Enlisted (UEQ): 87 enlisted men arrived to form organizations on the base. • UEQ Capacity: 94 • In 1942 the installation was named Kaye Field (pronounced Officer (UOQ): 221 • UOQ Capacity: 234 “coy”), in honor of Capt Sam Kaye, a World War I flying ace from Columbus, but due to confusion with another airfield the Privatized Housing: name changed to Columbus Army Flying School in March of • Occupants: 1140 1942. That year, 25 cadets entered training on Feb. 9 and • 424 graduated on March 6. Occupied Units: • Total Privatized Housing: 453 During World War II, 7,412 students received their wings and commissions at CAFS. During this time, they trained in the AT -8, AT-9, AT-10, and B-25. When the war ended in 1945, CAFB Groups the base reached a peak of 2,300 enlisted men, 300 officers, and an average of 250 pilot cadets per class. The end of Wing Staff Agencies hostilities slowed training and in 1946 the base was • 14th Comptroller Squadron (CPTS) inactivated. • Public Affairs, Protocol, CAG (CAOC) • Inspector General (IG) Air Training Command activated Columbus AFB on Dec. 20, • Wing Equal Opportunity Office (EO) 1950 to handle increased pilot demand for the Korean War. • Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) ATC established the 3301st Training Squadron (Contract • Wing Safety (SE) Flying) on March 1, 1951. • Wing Plans and Programs (XP) • Command Post (CP) On April 1, 1955, HQ USAF transferred Columbus AFB from • Wing Maintenance Authority (MA) ATC control to Strategic Air Command (SAC) and Second Air • Historian (HO) Force. The base became the home of a B-52 squadron and a • Chaplain (HC) KC-135 jet refueling tanker squadron under the 4228th • Staff Judge Advocate (JA) Strategic Wing. 14th Operations Group In 1963, SAC inactivated the 4228th Strategic Wing and • 14th Operations Support Squadron (OSS) activated the 454th Bombardment Wing, Heavy. They • 14th Student Squadron (STUS) conducted air refueling operations and trained in • 37th Flying Training Squadron (37 FTS) bombardment operation at Columbus AFB. T-6 Texan II o • 41st Flying Training Squadron (41 FTS) HQ USAF transferred Columbus back to ATC and its original T-6 Texan II o mission of training pilots on July 1, 1969. ATC activated the • 43rd Flying Training Squadron (43 FTS) 3650th Pilot Training Wing on Feb. 15. The first class, 71-01, Air Force Reserve Command entered training on July 17, 1969. o • 48th Flying Training Squadron (48 FTS) T-1A Jayhawk On June 1, 1972, ATC discontinued the 3650th and activated o • 49th Fighter Training Squadron (49 FTS) the 14th Flying Training Wing, which continues today as the T-38C IFF Talon home of the world’s premier pilot training. o • 50th Flying Training Squadron (50 FTS) In the mid-1990s, generalized UPT was replaced by o T-38C Talon • 81st Fighter Squadron (81 FS) Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training, which consisted of three phases. This spurred a need for the T-1A at CAFB, and o A-29 Super Tucano at Moody AFB, GA the first tanker and transport training aircraft arrived on base 14th Mission Support Group on January 25, 1996. CAFB received the T-6A Texan II in • 14th Force Support Squadron (FSS) October of 2006, and on April 2, 2008, the T-37 “Tweet” was • 14th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) officially retired and replaced by the newer aircraft. • 14th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) • 14th Communications Squadron (CS) On May 19, 2007, the 49th Fighter Training Squadron returned • 14th Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) to CAFB from Moody AFB to teach the Introduction to Fighter • Fundamentals program. 14th Contracting Squadron (CONS) 14th Medical Group The 14th FTW activated the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody • 14th Medical Operations Squadron (MDOS) AFB, GA on Oct. 1, 2014. The 81 FS, a geographically • 14th Medical Support Squadron (MDSS) separated unit of the 14th FTW, trains pilots and maintainers from Afghanistan on the A-29 Super Tucano. These aircraft Maintenance Directorate (Contract) will return with the trainees to be flown in their home country. • L3 Columbus Aircraft Maintenance Services This fact sheet was prepared by Columbus Air Force Base Public Affairs, 14 FTW/PA (662) 434-7068 .
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