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96TH AIR BASE WING
Vision Statement: The foundation of Team Eglin delivering superior support always ...
Mission Statement: Provide the foundation for Team Eglin missions, deploy combat ready forces while delivering full spectrum support to the DoD's largest, most dynamic Air Force Installation.
The mission of the 96th Air Base Wing consists of supporting the Air Armament Center and associate units with traditional military services as well as all the services of a small city, to include civil engineering, personnel, logistics, communications, computer, medical, security, and all other host services. Critical to the success of Eglin's mission, the 96th Air Base Wing provides a myriad of base operating support functions. Its people are responsible for material resources, mobility requirements, and meeting the needs of Eglin personnel. The 96th Air Base Wing is comprised of more than 5,000 professionals in five organizations.
The 96th Civil Engineer Group provides engineering forces to support global aerospace forces in peace and war. It operates, maintains, and protects the physical plant, infrastructure, facilities and systems, housing, and the environment, and maintains the largest base in the U.S. Air Force - 11.6 million square feet of physical plant spanning 724 square miles and 3,450 facilities.
The 96th Communications Group provides fixed and rapid, worldwide deployable communications and information services supporting warfighters at the Air Force's largest military installation. It manages a $3.3 million budget in support of a 20,000 person military community comprised of the Air Armament Center, 53rd Wing, 33rd Fighter Wing, 46th Test Wing, 96th Air Base Wing, 919th Special Operations Wing and numerous associate units.
The 96th Mission Support Group provides Aerospace Expeditionary Force readiness, fuels, supply, and transportation, ground combat training, security, personnel, education, family services, lodging, food service, recreation and logistics planning and deployment support to over 20,000 Team Eglin military and civilian personnel and 43,000 retirees. It deploys combat ready forces in support of worldwide contingency operations.
The 96th Medical Group ensures optimal health for all of Team Eglin. It manages and provides comprehensive, cost-effective health care for 83,000 eligible beneficiaries. It operates a community-based teaching hospital with graduate level programs in family practice, general dentistry and other medical disciplines. It deploys and expands to provide responsive health services in any contingency.
The Military Equal Opportunity office advises assigned host, associate and geographically separated organizations on issues of Equal Opportunity and Treatment or human relations. Services include clarifying discrimination concerns providing education, training, and counseling for military, their family members, and retired military personnel. It acts as a mediator, consultant, and fact-finder for problems involving discrimination. It enhances mission effectiveness and readiness by conducting wing and Unit Climate Assessments for commanders, assessing the organization's human relations climate while also creating and administering on- and off-base proactive programs.
The Eglin Chapel program provides opportunities for the free exercise of religion in the Air Force community through worship, rites, religious education, visitation, pastoral counseling, and responsiveness to individual religious needs. The base chapel supports several major base-wide events including, Operation Care, a program to assist the financially needy, the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, the Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative program, the Singles Ministry, and the National Prayer Breakfast.
With the mission of the 96th ABW, the heritage of the 96th Bombardment Group lives on through the people of Eglin, thus preserving the lineage and honors of a great organization.
Col. Bruce H. McClintock is commander of the 96th Air Base Wing, Air Force Materiel Command, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. As Eglin's host wing commander he leads more than 5,000 men and women in providing essential base operating support and services for more than 20,000 personnel, six wings, and 45 associate units as the Department of Defense's largest installation and executes an annual budget of more than $125 million.
Under his command are four distinct groups and twenty-one squadrons and divisions; the Air Force's largest civil engineer war fighting unit and Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight; the Air Force's largest supply function; the Air Force's fifth largest hospital coupled with its fourth largest medical mobility commitment; the Air Force's largest transportation function in the continental U.S.; one of four Air Force ground combat training squadrons, and one of two Department of Defense units to achieve level five software engineering status.
Fact Sheet Point of Contact
96th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Office
(850) 882-3931
DSN 872-3931
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