Editing Williams Air Force Base (section)

===Closure in the 1990s===
[[File:82d Training Wing.png|thumb|150px|left|Emblem of the 82d Training Wing]]

Air Training Command was directed to close four of its training bases as a result of the [[1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission]]. The non-flying officer and enlisted technical training center at [[Chanute AFB]], Illinois, and the sole undergraduate navigator training base at [[Mather Air Force Base|Mather AFB]], California, were chosen to close in round one, with Chanute's technical training activities relocating to other USAF technical training centers or similar activities operated by the other services, and the latter UNT activity slated to relocate to [[Randolph AFB]], Texas.  The non-flying officer and enlisted technical training center at [[Lowry Air Force Base|Lowry AFB]], Colorado and Williams AFB as an undergraduate pilot training base were selected in round two.

[[Air Education and Training Command]] (AETC), the 1992 successor major command to ATC, inactivated the host unit at Williams AFB, the [[82d Training Wing|82d Flying Training Wing]], on 31 March 1993, redesignating it as the [[82d Training Wing]] and transferring it to [[Sheppard AFB]], Texas, where it would control non-flying officer and enlisted technical training, a role it continues to this day.  This left the now independent 82d Operations Group to close Williams AFB. The command inactivated the operations group on 30 September 1993, and the approximately {{convert|4127|acre|km2|adj=on}} base was closed 30 September 1993.

At the official closing ceremony, two men, who as [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]] in 1941 had raised the first flag at Williams Field when it was first officially opened, were there to officially lower the flag at its closing, after a combined fifty years of military service.

Today, Williams continues to serve the Phoenix area as a growing industrial park and commercial airport.