It was reactivated in 2005 in a reorganization of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) that replaced offices in its logistics centers with wings, groups and squadrons, but was inactivated when AFMC returned to its previous organiation.
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.[2] However, corollary unit training had to be balanced against the regular unit’s mission, and deployment and exercise participation interrupted training activities.[3]
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.[4] Even after its move, the wing remained undermanned and performed little training.[4] 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.[4] It was 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,[5] and it was inactivated.[4]
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.[6]
In this reorganiation, 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.[c] 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.[citation needed]
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.[6] In May 2014, the wing was inactivated along with the 508th Aerospace Sustainment Wing and replaced by the Aerospace Sustainment Directorate of Ogden Air Logistics Center.[7]
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
84th Commodities Sustainment Group: 24 February 2005[9] – 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,[4] 24 February 2005[9] – c. May 2014
84th Maintenance & Supply Group: 1 June 1949 – 2 June 1951
84th Materiel Sustainment Group: 24 February 2005[9] – 28 April 2006[10]
84th Medical Group: 1 June 1949 – 2 June 1951
84th Specialized Management Sustainment Group: 24 February 2005[9] – 28 April 2006[10]
784th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006[10] – 30 June 2010
884th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006[10] – 28 April 2008[11]
984th Combat Sustainment Group: 28 April 2006[10] – 28 April 2008[11]
McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, 10 October 1949 – 2 June 1951[8]
Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 24 February 2005[9] – c. May 2014
References
Notes
Explanatory notes
↑Aircraft is North American P-82F (later F-82F) Twin Mustang, serial 46-415.
↑Description: Azure a globe Celeste, land masses of the first [color], surmounted by a four-pointed star Or in fess point; in base, a winged [bombsight] of the third [color], voided of the field['s color], wings Argent, all within a diminished bordure of the third [color]. Significance: Ultramarine blue and Air Force yellow are the Air Force colors. Blue alludes to the sky, the primary theater of Air Force operations. Yellow refers to the sun and the excellence required of Air Force personnel. The globe represents the worldwide support for USAF, including Area of Responsibility as well as Foreign Military Sales and other agency customers. The points of the star each have a special symbolism: the north point represents space systems supported by the unit; the south point represents the ground based systems; the east point represents the single manager programs; and the west point represents the munitions systems and components supported by the unit. The wings represent the many airborne systems the unit supplies, the aircraft supply chain management organization and the 84th Commodities Sustainment Group. The [bombsight] between the wings symbolizes the lineage and heritage of the unit.
↑The wing was also authorized, on a temporary basis, the honors and history of its subordinate 84th Combat Sustainment Group, earned as a fighter group during World War II and as a component of Air Defense Command during the Cold War. Cornett & Johnson, p. 74, Maurer, pp. 150–51
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