Misplaced Pages

82nd Training Wing

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)
82d Training Wing
Active1947-1949
1972-1993
1993 - present
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeTraining
Part ofAir Education and Training Command
Garrison/HQSheppard Air Force Base
Motto(s)Adorimini Latin Up and At 'Em
DecorationsAir Force Outstanding Unit Award
Commanders
current commanderColonel Paul G. Filcek
Vice CommanderColonel Kellie S. Courtland
Command Chief Master SergeantChief Master Sgt. Rey D. Schultz
Military unit

The 82nd Training Wing is a unit of the United States Air Force that is assigned to the Air Education and Training Command, Second Air Force. The training wing is stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas where it is also a host unit.

The Training Wing produces more than 62,000 graduates annually in over 1,000+ technical training courses, including aircraft maintenance, civil engineering, and nuclear and conventional munitions.

The commander of the 82nd Training Wing is Brigadier General George T.M. Dietrich III. The Command Chief Master Sergeant is Chief Master Sergeant John P. Chilcote.

Units

The 82 TRW is the largest of four technical training wings in Air Education and Training Command. The 82nd, 782nd, and 982nd Training Groups conduct training at Sheppard and at geographically separated locations around the country. The 982nd Training Group conducts training at locations worldwide.

82nd Training Group (82 TRG)
  • The 82nd Training Group is responsible for aircraft maintenance and armament and munitions including nuclear munitions. The 82nd Training Group provides aircraft maintenance and munitions training for United States Air Force specialties, including officer and enlisted initial skills courses in 17 different Air Force Specialty Codes, advanced and supplemental courses, the Maintenance Course for Operational Commanders, and the Mission Generation Road Course.
    • 359th Training Squadron (359 TRS)
    • 361st Training Squadron (361 TRS)
    • 362nd Training Squadron (362 TRS)
    • 363rd Training Squadron (363 TRS)

782nd Training Group (782 TRG)

  • The 782nd Training Group is the most diverse group in Air Education and Training Command, with courses in seven distinctly different career fields in four training squadrons. The 782nd Training Group is also responsible for training to include aircraft systems and telecommunications, avionics test equipment, combat avionics, flight line training and explosive ordnance disposal. They are also responsible for electrical, fuels and mechanical training. Detachments 1, 3, and 6 are responsible for media production and interactive courseware.

982nd Training Group (982 TRG)

  • The 982d Training Group provides aircraft, munitions and communications-electronics maintenance training. The 982nd Training Group has more than 1,200 people assigned within two training squadrons and one maintenance squadron. The 982nd Training Group provides weapon systems training at 44 detachments and operating locations worldwide. Exercising single-point training management, the group is the Air Education and Training Command's first point of contact for many weapons systems. In this capacity, the 982nd develops comprehensive training programs and provides technical support for design and development of training equipment during acquisition and modification of aircraft and associated equipment.
    • 372nd Training Squadron (372 TRS)
    • 373rd Training Squadron (373 TRS)
    • 982nd Maintenance Squadron (982 MXS)
 82nd Mission Support Group (82 MSG)
  • The 82nd Mission Support Group provides security, personnel support, food services, communications, contracting services, logistics, supplies, vehicle maintenance, housing, lodging, facility maintenance and emergency services for Sheppard's two wings and 17 tenants composed of more than 5,900 military, civilian and contractor personnel, 81,900 joint trainees annually and 9,200 dependents and retirees.
    • 82d Communications Squadron (82 CS)
    • 82d Security Forces Squadron (82 SFS)
    • 82d Force Support Squadron (82 FSS)
    • 82d Civil Engineer Squadron (82 CES)
    • 82d Logistics Readiness Squadron (82 LRS)
    • 82d Contracting Squadron (82 CONS)

82d Medical Group (82 MDG)

  • The 82nd Medical Group provides comprehensive health services for 20,000 beneficiaries for the Sheppard military community and surrounding referral areas. Large numbers of group personnel are ready to deploy in response to any contingency worldwide. Additionally, the 82nd Medical Group provides aerospace and physiology services for the NATO alliance and Department of Defense instructors and their families in the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program.
    • 82d Medical Operations Squadron (82 MDOS)
    • 82d Dental Squadron (82 DS)
    • 82d Aerospace Medical Squadron (82 AMDS)
    • 82d Medical Support Squadron (82 MDSS)

Additionally, the 82nd Comptroller Squadron (82 CPTS) reports directly to the 82 TRW.

Air Training Command

First ten women officers

The 82nd replaced and absorbed resources of the 3525th Pilot Training Wing in February 1973 at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona and assumed undergraduate pilot training operations in Cessna T-37 Tweet and Northrop T-38 Talon aircraft. Assigned to the wing were the 96th and 97th Flying Training Squadrons.

On 19 September 1976, the first women entered undergraduate pilot training. Ten female students were in Class 77-08. First Lieutenant Christine E. Schott became the first woman to solo in the T-38. On 2 September 1977, Class 77-08 graduated. The ten women received their wings along with 36 male classmates. In March 1978, the 82nd's first female instructor pilot, Capt Connie Engel, was assigned to the 97th Fighter Training Squadron to instruct T-38 students.

Air Training Command activated the 98th and the 99th Flying Training Squadrons on 1 June 1988 to test a four-squadron organization. The test showed the wing needed a fifth squadron to provide operational support. On 1 September 1989, ATC activated the 100th Flying Training Squadron.

In 1991 Congress approved the second round of base closures, as identified by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission. On that list was Williams. The base was to cease operation as of 30 September 1993. With Williams scheduled to close, ATC decided to move part of that base's T-38 fleet to Sheppard Air Force Base during 1992.

HQ USAF redesignated the 82nd Flying Training Wing as the 82nd Training Wing and assigned the designation to Air Education and Training Command on 1 July 1993. The 82nd was inactivated at Williams and HQ AETC activated the 82nd Training Wing at Sheppard and assigned it to Second Air Force. The 82nd's new mission was to conduct ground technical training. The 82nd also became the host unit at Sheppard.

The 782nd Training Group was activated on 23 March 1994 and assigned it to the 82nd Training Wing. At the same time, the 396th Technical Training Group changed its name to the 82nd Training Group, the 82nd Medical Group became the 882nd Training Group, and the 82nd Field Training Group became the 982nd Training Group. On 30 March, the wing began providing technician training, first in the C-141 crew chief course and, a day later, in the F-16 crew chief course. The C-141 program graduated its first class in August, followed in September by the F-16 class.

Lineage

  • Established as the 82nd Fighter Wing on 28 July 1947
Organized on 15 August 1947
Inactivated on 2 October 1949
  • Redesignated 82nd Flying Training Wing on 22 June 1972
Activated on 1 February 1973
Inactivated on 31 March 1993
  • Redesignated 82nd Training Wing and activated on 1 July 1993

Assignments

Components

Groups

  • 82nd Airdrome Group (later 82nd Air Base Group, 82nd Support Group, 82nd Mission Support Group): 15 August 1947 – 2 October 1949, 1 February 1973 – 31 March 1993, 1 June 1993 – present
  • 82nd Field Training Group (later 982nd Training Group): 1 June 1993 – present
  • 82nd Fighter Group (later 82nd Operations Group): 15 August 1947 – 2 October 1949 (detached 4–29 April June 1948), 15 December 1991 – 31 March 1993
  • 82nd Maintenance & Supply Group (later 82nd Logistics Group): 15 August 1947 – 2 October 1949, 15 December 1991 – 31 March 1993, 1 July 1993 – 1 August 2002
  • 82nd Medical Training Group (later 882nd Training Group): 1 June 1993 – 15 September 2011
  • 82 Station Medical Group (later 82nd Medical Group, 82nd Flying Training Wing Clinic, 82nd Medical Squadron, 82nd Medical Group): 15 August 1947 – 2 October 1949, 1988 – 31 March 1993, 1 June 1993 – present
  • 82nd Technical Training Group (later 82nd Training Group): c. 1 June 1993 – present
  • 782nd Training Group: c. 1 July 1994 – present
  • 882nd Training Group (see 82nd Medical Training Group)
  • 982nd Training Group (see 82nd Field Training Group)

Squadrons

Other
  • USAF Hospital, Williams: 15 October 1970 – 1988 (consolidated with 82nd Station Medical Group)
  • 82nd Flying Training Wing Clinic (see 82nd Station Medical Group)

Stations

  • Grenier Field (later Grenier Air Force Base)], New Hampshire, 15 August 1947 – 2 October 1949
  • Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, 1 February 1973 – 31 March 1993
  • Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, 1 July 1993 – present

Aircraft operated

Notes

  1. Ravenstein, pp. 117–118
  2. ^ "Sheppard Air Force Base - Base Information". Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Technical Training". www.sheppard.af.mil. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013.
  4. "82nd Training Wing". Sheppard Air Force Base. Archived from the original on 25 April 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  5. "Factsheets : 82nd Training Group". Archived from the original on 6 April 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  6. "Factsheets : 782nd Training Group". Archived from the original on 6 April 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  7. "Factsheets : 982nd Training Group". Archived from the original on 13 July 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  8. "Factsheets : 82nd Mission Support Group". Archived from the original on 6 April 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  9. "Factsheets : 82nd Medical Group". Archived from the original on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  10. Despite the similarity in names, the wing is not related to the 82d Flying Training Wing (Flexible Gunnery) that was constituted in 1943, activated on 25 August 1943 at Las Vegas Army Airfield, Nevada and assigned to Western Flying Training Command and disbanded on 16 June 1946.
  11. ^ Haulman, Daniel L. (21 June 2017). "82 Training Wing (AETC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

Bibliography

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Further reading

  • Rogers, Brian. (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, UK: Midland Publications. ISBN 1-85780-197-0.

External links

United States Air Force
Leadership
Structure
Commands
Direct Reporting Units
Major commands
Numbered Air Forces
Personnel and
training
Uniforms and
equipment
History and
traditions
Air Education and Training Command (AETC)
Air Forces
Bases
Wings
Groups
Strategic Air Command (SAC)
Bases
active
(MAJCOM)
CONUS
overseas
former /
inactive
CONUS
overseas
Units
Air Forces
Divisions
Air
Strategic
aerospace
Strategic missile
Wings
Bombardment
Fighter
Missile
Reconnaissance
Refueling
Strategic
Aerospace
AFCON
MAJCOM
USAAF
Groups
*= initial assigned
unit upon SAC's
activation
Bombardment
Fighter
Reconnaissance
Major
weapon
systems
Bombers
Command
& Control
Fighters
Missiles
Reconnaissance
Tankers
Transport
Commanders
Emblems
United States military aircraft designation systems
Categories: