93d Air Ground Operations Wing | |
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93 AGOW
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Active | 1947-1948; 1948-1995; 1996-2002; 2008-present |
Country | United States |
Branch | United States Air Force |
Part of | Air Combat Command |
Garrison/HQ | Moody Air Force Base, Georgia |
Motto(s) | Defend, Attack, Defeat! |
Decorations |
Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Meritorious Unit Citation |
Battle honours | World War II: Antisubmarine American Theater Egypt-Libya Tunisia; Sicily Naples-Foggia Air Offensive Europe Normandy Northern France Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace Central Europe Air Combat EAME Theater |
Commanders | |
Current commander |
Col Jeffery D. Valenzia |
Notable commanders |
Brig Gen Michael A. Longoria |
Insignia | |
93d Air Ground Operations Wing emblem (approved 4 September 1953) |
The 93d Air Ground Operations Wing (93d AGOW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command, Ninth Air Force. It is stationed as a tenant unit at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.
The 93d AGOW provides highly trained ground combat forces capable of integrating air and space power into the ground scheme of fire and maneuver. The wing also conducts offensive and defensive ground combat operations worldwide to protect expeditionary aerospace forces anywhere, anytime. The 93d AGOW provides the joint force commander airborne, air-mobile, air-land and over-land insertion capability, and remains the joint expert on integration of air power and combat weather support to ground forces.
Its 93d Operations Group is a successor organization to the World War II 93d Bombardment Group. It was the first VIII Bomber Command B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment group to carry out strategic bombardment operations against targets in Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany from RAF Alconbury, England on 9 October 1942. Active for over 60 years, the 93d Bombardment Wing was a component organization of Strategic Air Command's deterrent force during the Cold War, as a strategic bombardment wing.
A non-flying wing, the 93d AGOW consolidates and provides a new level of support to battlefield Airmen from the 3d Air Support Operations Group (3d ASOG) at Fort Hood, Texas (supporting III Corps), 18th Air Support Operations Group (18th ASOG) at Pope Field, North Carolina (supporting XVIII Airborne Corps), and the Integrated Base Defense capabilities of the 820th Base Defense Group (820th BDG) at Moody AFB, Georgia. The 820th BDG is a Force Protection unit composed of 12 Air Force Specialty Codes with an airborne capability, who, at a moment's notice, can provide worldwide deployable, "first-in", fully integrated, multidisciplined capabilities.