Force protection unit of the United States Air Force
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820th Base Defense Group
820th Base Defense Group emblem
Active
1968–1969 1997–present
Country
United States of America
Branch
United States Air Force
Type
Air force infantry
Part of
Air Combat Command 93d Air-Ground Operations Wing
Garrison/HQ
Moody Air Force Base, Georgia
Motto(s)
Joined to fight
Engagements
War in Afghanistan Iraq War
Commanders
Current commander
Colonel Walter Sorensen
Notable commanders
Colonel John Decknick, Colonel "TR" Derry, Colonel Paul Kasuda,
Colonel Michael Ross, Colonel Benito Barron
Military unit
The 820th Base Defense Group is the United States Air Force's only first-in, fully-integrated, world-wide deployable, base defense capability currently based at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The BDG (approximately 800 personnel) was re-activated in 1997 (prior to was designated the 1041st TEST) [1] and is composed of three rapidly-deployable Base Defense Squadrons (822 BDS "Safeside", 823 BDS "Jesters", 824 BDS "Ghostwalkers"), and the 820th Combat Operations Squadron (820 COS "Reapers").[2] Each multi-functional BDS contains security forces, intelligence, EOD, engineering, communications, medical, logistics, and administration personnel able to operate with limited support from other deployed forces, as part of the Department of Defense's Immediate Response Force (IRF). Currently, the 820th BDG has been placed under Air Combat Commands only lead wing. The unit is trained and equipped to perform joint forceable entry (airborne insertion, air assault operations), RANGER, Jungle, Arctic, Mountain, Pathfinder, SAPPR, FRIES/SPIES, Sniper Support, airfield security assessments, base defense, area defense, mobile defense, and C2 of defense forces for one large base or several small sites. Additionally, the squadrons can link with other integrated defense or initial entry/base seizure forces and provide a secure and smooth transition to airfield opening forces.[3]
September 2013 a SSgt assigned to the 105th BaseDefense Squadron while attached to the 820thBaseDefenseGroup, was killed by small-arms fire after his...
Moody Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: VAD, ICAO: KVAD, FAA LID: VAD) is a United States Air Force installation near Valdosta, Georgia. The base is in northeastern...
mid-1960s to the present. To provide air defense of the base, the United States Army established the Offutt AFB Defense Area, and Nike-Hercules surface-to-air...
the main base "at the foot of Sunrise Mountain"[citation needed] (formerly the U.S. Navy's Lake Mead Base) has Nellis Gun Club and the 820th Red Horse...
Joint Base Andrews 820thBaseDefenseGroup Moody Air Force Base 821st Security Forces Squadron Thule Air Base 902d Security Forces Squadron Joint Base San...
evolved into a primary base for Army Air Corps pursuit (i.e., "fighter") aircraft such as the P-40 Warhawk, responsible for air defense of the Hawaiian Islands...
was not officially stood up, but nevertheless manned by a HQ unit of the 820th BDG and airmen sourced from several bases around summer 2011. In December...
mission of the base it will be made an independent group. They may report to a wing or they may be completely independent (the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess...
центр испытаний и управления космическими средствами имени Германа Титова) 820th Main Centre for Missile Attack Warning (SPRN) (Russian: центр предупреждения...
BADS was established in 1956 at Stewart Air Force Base (AFB), New York as the 4622nd Air Defense Wing pending completion of the new Semi Automatic Ground...
January 1963 – 15 September 1964) 820th Strategic Aerospace Division 556th Strategic Missile Squadron Plattsburgh Air Force Base was designated as one of four...
Air Force had formed a dedicated force protection unit, the 820th Security Forces Group, capable of global deployment and containing dedicated specialties...
Company, Bitburg Air Base 611th Ordnance Company, Bruchmühlbach-Miesau (Miesau Ammunition Depot) 820th Ordnance Company, Bitburg Air Base 19th Maintenance...
PLA Rocket Force 61st Base (Huangshan City, Anhui Province) Base 52 comprised the 807th, 811th, 815th, 817th, 818th, 819th, 820th, and 827th Brigades armed...
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam 819th RED HORSE Squadron, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana 820th RED HORSE Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada 823rd RED...
reassigned, and in October the 820th took its place in the Group. Thus the Group consisted of the 47th, 48th, 396th, and 820th Bombardment Squadrons. By mid-1943...
the sector's "Air Defense Control and Coordination System" (DC-02). Activated at the fort in 1959 was the headquarters for the 820th Radar Squadron which...
центр испытаний и управления космическими средствами имени Германа Титова) 820th Main Centre for Missile Attack Warning (SPRN) (Russian: центр предупреждения...
assigned to the wing and the wing was transferred from Eighth Air Force to the 820th Air Division. In July, the 56th Aviation Depot Squadron was activated to...
Field Hospital 820th Hospital Center 368th Military Intelligence Battalion 191st Army Band 1/363rd TSBN,120th IN BDE, 1st Army In its 2005 Base Realignment...
Mueller, p. 611 Ravenstein, Combat Wings, p. 213 "Abstract, History of 820th Air Div, Feb 1961". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 7 September 2012...
Task Force X, made up of 2nd Platoon, Company A, 820th Tank Destroyer Battalion; and 22 men of the 820th's 2nd Recon Platoon, commanded by Lieutenant John...
Force's Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base. It was reactivated on 20 August 2020, merging the previous units of the...
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United States Air Force
Air Combat Command
93d Air-Ground Operations Wing