Editing Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (section)

==Role and operations==
[[File:Dmafb-1.jpg|thumb|An A-10 in the Arizona sunset|alt=]]

=== 355th Wing ===
The host wing at Davis–Monthan is the [[355th Fighter Wing|355th Wing]], which includes:
* [[355th Operations Group]] (355 OG)

The 355 OG consists of six squadrons and over 450 personnel employing A-10 aircraft and an [[AN/TPS-75]] radar system. It provides war-fighters with forces for [[close air support]] (CAS), [[air interdiction]] (AI), [[forward air control]] (FAC), [[combat search and rescue]] (CSAR), ground-based tactical air control, and airbase operations. It also conducts all formal course directed aircraft initial qualification/ re-qualification training. All active duty aircraft assigned to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base carry the tail code "DM".
* [[354th Fighter Squadron]] (A-10C) "Bulldogs", blue tail flash
* [[357th Fighter Squadron]] (A-10C) "Dragons", yellow tail flash
* [[358th Fighter Squadron]] (A-10C) "Lobos", black tail flash (inactivated 21 February 2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.acc.af.mil/News/story/?id=123401482%7B%7Bdead+link%7Cdate=April+2018+%7Cbot=InternetArchiveBot+%7Cfix-attempted=yes+%7D%7D|title=News|website=www.acc.af.mil|access-date=13 September 2021|archive-date=13 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913180851/https://www.acc.af.mil/News/story/?id=123401482%7B%7Bdead+link%7Cdate%3DApril+2018+%7Cbot%3DInternetArchiveBot+%7Cfix-attempted%3Dyes+%7D%7D|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[355th Operations Support Squadron]]
* 355th Training Squadron
* 607th Air Control Squadron
* [[355th Mission Support Group]] (355 MSG) – The 355 MSG consists of about 2,000 military and civilian personnel in six diverse squadrons that train, equip and provide agile combat mission support, including civil engineering, communications, contracting, transportation, fuels, supply, deployment readiness, personnel, security forces, and services for immediate worldwide deployment of combat support elements. The group also provides an effective in-garrison support infrastructure and quality of life services for 26 wing and 32 associate units spanning a 60,000-person, {{convert|10763|acre|km2|adj=on}} community, one of the largest in Air Combat Command.
* [[355th Maintenance Group]] (355 MXG) – The 355 MXG supports eight flying squadrons, providing organizational and intermediate field level/back shop maintenance for 110 A-10C, and intermediate field level/back shop maintenance for an additional 14 EC-130H, 1 TC-130H, 8 HH-60H, and 6 HC-130J combat-ready aircraft. The 355 MXG has over 1,700 assigned personnel, ensures quality of on- and off-equipment aircraft maintenance, and executes an annual O&M budget of $72.2M.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dm.af.mil/Units/355thMaintenanceGroup.aspx |title=Davis-Monthan Air Force Base > Units > 355th Maintenance Group |access-date=30 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229182427/http://www.dm.af.mil/Units/355thMaintenanceGroup.aspx |archive-date=29 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** 355th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron
** 355th Component Maintenance Squadron
** 355th Equipment Maintenance Squadron
* [[355th Medical Group]] (355 MDG) – The 355th Medical Group was established in 1955 as the 355th USAF Infirmary at [[McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base|McGhee Tyson AFB]], Tennessee. After several redesignations, it was activated at Davis–Monthan AFB as the 355th Medical Group in 1992. The 355th Medical Group ensures combat medical readiness of all operational and support units home-based at Davis–Monthan AFB for global contingencies. With an authorized staff of 407 and a resource allocation totaling $26 million, the 355 MDG ensures that warriors at Davis–Monthan AFB are medically fit-to-fight. In addition to training and equipping/manning 25 mobility teams, the 355 MDG also promotes the health and wellness of the Davis–Monthan AFB community by meeting the health care needs of over 54,000 eligible DoD beneficiaries in southern Arizona.

==== 563rd Rescue Group ====
The [[563d Rescue Group|563rd Rescue Group]] is part of the 355th Wing. It includes the following squadrons:
* [[48th Rescue Squadron]] ([[Pararescue]])
* [[55th Rescue Squadron]] ([[HH-60G Pavehawk]])
* [[79th Rescue Squadron]] (HC-130J)
* 563rd Operations Support Squadron
* 563rd Maintenance Squadron
* 923rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

===Associate / unit-equipped units===
==== [[924th Fighter Group]] (924 FG) ====
[[File:Davis-monthan-afb-main-gate-sign.jpg|thumb|Main gate sign|alt=]]

The 924 FG of the [[Air Force Reserve Command]] (AFRC) was reactivated in 2011 and initially assigned to Davis–Monthan AFB as an "associate" unit to the 355 FW flying the A-10 aircraft. As part of the Air Force Reserve Command, it is also a geographically separated unit (GSU) of AFRC's [[944th Fighter Wing]] (944 FW) at [[Luke AFB]], Arizona. Like the 355 FW, the 924 FG currently flies the same Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support aircraft. The 924 FG consists of the [[47th Fighter Squadron]] (A-10C), 924th Maintenance Squadron, 924th Operational Support Flight.

Between October 2013 and March 2014, the 924 FG transitioned from being a "classic" associate unit when it gained 28 A-10 aircraft of its own from [[Barksdale AFB]], Louisiana. The 924th is now part of the Total Force Enterprise, and is the only unit-equipped both active and classic associate fighter group in Air Force Reserve Command's inventory. With oversight of the 47th Fighter Squadron, 924th MS, and 924th OSF, the group is charged with working with the Regular Air Force's 355th Fighter Wing to functionally integrate with the 355th Operations Group and 355th Maintenance Group to conduct A-10 pilot training at Davis–Monthan AFB.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dm.af.mil/Home/FactSheets/Display/Article/672383/|title=Davis–Monthan Air Force Base > Home|website=www.dm.af.mil|access-date=12 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616214417/https://www.dm.af.mil/Home/FactSheets/Display/Article/672383/924th-fighter-group/|archive-date=16 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Tenant units===
==== Twelfth Air Force ====
Davis–Monthan is headquarters of Air Combat Command's [[Twelfth Air Force]] and the 612th Air and Space Operations Center which operates [[Twelfth Air Force|AFSOUTH]]'s Combined Air and Space Operations Center ([[CAOC]]). Other Direct Report Units include the 612th Air Communications Squadron.

'''55th Electronic Combat Group'''
* [[55th Electronic Combat Group]], a geographically separated unit (GSU) of the [[55th Wing]] at [[Offutt Air Force Base]], Nebraska
** [[41st Electronic Combat Squadron]] (EC-130H) "Scorpions", blue tail stripe
** [[42d Electronic Combat Squadron]] (EC-130H) "Raptors", yellow tail stripe
** [[43d Electronic Combat Squadron]] (EC-130H) "Bats", red tail stripe
** 755th Operations Support Squadron
** 755th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

==== 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) ====
The [[309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group]] (AMARG) is part of [[Air Force Materiel Command]] and is responsible for the base's aircraft "graveyard", the largest in terms of number of planes in the world,<ref>Purner 2004, pp. 31–32.</ref> where old military and other aircraft are stationed either to be [[Caretaker (military)|stored indefinitely]], demilitarized for museum or monument display, stripped and pulped/recycled, or restored for service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dema.az.gov/sites/default/files/MAC_2008MaguireMilitaryEconImpactFullStudy.pdf |title=Economic Impact of Arizona's Principal Military Operations |publisher=The Maguire Company/ESI Corporation/Arizona Department of Commerce, 2008 |page=15 |access-date=27 December 2009 |archive-date=24 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824203325/https://dema.az.gov/sites/default/files/MAC_2008MaguireMilitaryEconImpactFullStudy.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="fresh">Gentzen, V.J. [http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum/bitstream/1903/8331/1/umi-umd-5538.pdf "Experimental detection and quantitative interrogration of damage in a jointed composite structure."]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''University of Maryland MSc Thesis,'' June 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-15-fi-boneyard15-story.html |title=As travel declines, aircraft 'boneyard' in Victorville fills up |last1=Pae |first1=P. |date=15 March 2009 |publisher=Los Angeles Times, 15 March 2009 |access-date=27 December 2009 |archive-date=11 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311121751/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/15/business/fi-boneyard15 |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''[[943rd Rescue Group]]'''
* The [[943rd Rescue Group]] is an [[Air Force Reserve Command]] unit assigned to Davis–Monthan that falls under the [[920th Rescue Wing]] (920 RQW) at [[Patrick Space Force Base]], Florida<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.943rqg.afrc.af.mil/Units.aspx |title=Units |access-date=30 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230231649/http://www.943rqg.afrc.af.mil/Units.aspx |archive-date=30 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The group comprises the following units.
** [[305th Rescue Squadron]] (HH-60G)
** 306th Rescue Squadron ([[Pararescue]])
** 943rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron
** 943rd Aerospace Medicine Squadron
** 943rd Operations Support Flight

==== Arizona Air National Guard ====
[[File:Obama Holder Air Force One Tucson 2011.jpg|thumb|[[Air Force One]] arrives at the base with President [[Barack Obama]] during a 2011 visit to Tucson.]]
The base provides additional active duty support to the [[162d Fighter Wing]] (162 FW) of the [[Arizona Air National Guard]] and the [[Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center]], both located at [[Tucson Air National Guard Base]] at nearby [[Tucson International Airport]], and both of which fly the [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16C and F-16D Fighting Falcon]], with the latter also operating an [[A-10 Thunderbolt II]] detachment in concert with the 355 FW at Davis–Monthan AFB.

The [[214th Reconnaissance Group|214th Attack Group]] (214 RG) of the [[Arizona Air National Guard]] previously operated the [[MQ-1 Predator]] and currently flies the [[MQ-9 Reaper]] in a split operation, with remote piloting/command & control activities at Davis-Monthan AFB and aircraft launch, recovery and maintenance activities taking place at [[Libby Army Airfield]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.162wing.ang.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1292865/214th-attack-group/https://www.162wing.ang.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1292865/214th-attack-group/|title=214th Attack Group|website=162nd Wing}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==== Other activities ====
Also located on base is the [[25th Operational Weather Squadron]] [[25 OWS]]. The squadron produces forecasts for the Western United States and is part of the [[1st Weather Group]] (1 WXG) headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The squadron also serves as a training hub for new weather professionals—both enlisted and officers.

Other military activities and federal agencies using the base include the Navy Operational Support Center Tucson, a detachment of the [[Naval Air Systems Command]], the [[Federal Aviation Administration]], the [[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]] Air and Marine Operations Tucson Air Branch, and the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]].