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  Moody Air Force Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The life of the African American personnel of the base was immortalized in the comedy monologue with music, "Callin' Moody Field" by Miss Peaches, a rhythm and blues hit in the late 1950s.
In the base the population is spread out with 45.3% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 44.1% from 25 to 44, 2.3% from 45 to 64, and 0.3% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the base is $36,058, and the median income for a family is $36,058.
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 Moody Air Force Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moody Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Lowndes County, Georgia.
The racial makeup of the base is 69.49% White, 23.26% Black or African American, 0.10% Native American, 2.52% Asian, 0.40% Pacific Islander, 2.42% from other races, and 1.81% from two or more races.
The per capita income for the base is $11,452.
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 Moody Air Force Base -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Moody Air Force Base is a (The airforce of the United States of America; defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space) United States Air Force base located in (Click link for more info and facts about Lowndes County, Georgia) Lowndes County, Georgia.
The base was first established in (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War 2 and long served as a major pilot-training base.
As of the (A period count of the population) census of 2000, there are 993 people, 275 households, and 270 families residing in the base.
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 United States Air Force - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Secretary of the Air Force is Dr. James G. Roche.
The Chief of Staff of the Air Force is General (Gen) John P. Jumper.
In 1941, the Army Air Corps became the U.S. Army Air Force and the GHQ Air Force was redesignated the Air Force Combat Command.
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 Jason Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cunningham, based at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Ga., was one of eight soldiers from three services killed during an assault on an 11,000-foot-high mountain redoubt near the town of Gardez in eastern Afghanistan.
Cunningham was stationed at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia and was a pararescueman assigned to the 38th Rescue Squadron.
The senior airman was one of Air Force's elite pararescuemen, killed in Marzak, Afghanistan, in the mountains of Paktia Province on March 4, 2002.
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 DefenseLINK News: Georgia Air Force Base Struts Its Stuff for Civilian Leaders
Moody Air Force Base, home of the 347th Rescue Wing and the only active duty combat-search-and-rescue wing in the U.S. Air Force, pulled out all stops April 26 for a visiting group of civic leaders.
At Moody, JCOC participants not only learned firsthand about some of the most advanced air-power platforms in the world by the men and women who operate them, but were able to see and participate in demonstrations of their power and capabilities.
Air Force Maj. Gregory Laffitte, Aerospace Physiology Flight Commander, 347th Rescue Wing, Moody Air Force Base, Ga., explains to Jim Amoss, a participant in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, the effects of spatial disorientation April 26.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Apr2005/20050427_783.html   (958 words)

  
 Rick D. Husband - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After graduating from Texas Tech University, Husband was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force and attended pilot training at Vance Air Force Base (AFB) in Oklahoma.
He finished his training there in October 1981, and was assigned to F-4 Phantom II training at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.
In December 1987, Husband was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base in California, where he attended the USAF Test Pilot School.
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 Encyclopedia: Moody Air Force Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives.
African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or fl Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa.
Marriage is a relationship and bond, most commonly between a man and a woman, that plays a key role in the definition of many families.
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 www.GovExec.com - 'Losers' in 2004 base funding could be vulnerable to closure (12/9/03)
This is partly because the Air Force Special Operations Command, whose vice commander is a former member of that unit, controls it.
The base houses the Air Force Space Command and the 30th Space Wing.
The Los Angeles base is located in an expensive section of Los Angeles County, and analysts consider it an obvious choice for closure, since it boasts no actual space or missile facilities.
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 Moody Air Force Base Housing Privatization Project | Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ocated in Lowndes County in south central Georgia, nine miles from the city of Valdosta, Moody is assigned to Air Combat Command and is operated by the 347th Wing.
The current military family housing demand at Moody is 2,753 units, of which 1,128 is satisfied by owned units, leaving a rental demand of 1,625 units.
Approximately 11 percent of military families live in Government-owned housing on the base; the remaining 89 percent live in the surrounding community.
www.bbpa.com /Moody/Moody_overview.htm   (288 words)

  
 Jason Dean Cunningham, Senior Airman, United States Air Force
Moody Air Force Base in Georgia is naming one of its schools today for Senior Airman Jason Cunningham, a Carlsbad native and pararescueman who was killed saving 10 servicemen in Afghanistan.
Moody is dedicating its Airman Leadership School in Cunningham's honor on the two-year anniversary of a bloody Afghanistan firefight.
Cunningham was stationed at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia and was a para-rescueman assigned to the 38th Rescue Squadron.
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 USAFE News Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Air control squadron convoy a case of 'road eating the rubber'
The vehicle maintainers, who are members of the 606th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, have been busy replacing dozens of tires on the unit's fleet of vehicles since arriving April 23 at the air base in southern Italy.
Other members are from the 728th Air Control Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.; the 71st Air Control Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga.; and the 505th Test Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla.
www.usafe.af.mil /news/news99/uns99226.htm   (449 words)

  
 DKS: Air Force suspends flights after two planes crash; investigation continues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Air Force suspends flights after two planes crash; investigation continues
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AP) - Training flights were suspended at Moody Air Force Base Tuesday as officials investigated two plane crashes in the last week.
An F-16 crashed Monday in a remote area north of the base, and an A-10 crashed Thursday near Nahunta.
www.stater.kent.edu /stories_old/97spr/042397/w2b.html   (223 words)

  
 Bush's Stint in Guard Scrutinized, Dallas Morning News, 1999
Also, several former Air Force pilots who served in the unit said that they were recruited from elsewhere to fly for the Texas Guard.
David Hanifl of La Crescent, Minn., an Air Force regular who went through pilot training in Georgia with George W. Bush, said the flight instructors were eager to fly with the Texan.
Bush went to an Air Force recruiting office near Yale, where he took and passed the test required by the Air Force for pilot trainees.
www.catholicsandsurvivors.net /bushDallasMorningNews1999.htm   (1707 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Ga. town can't forget 6 who died in Afghanistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For 30 years, men and women from Moody Air Force Base across the street have come here to eat and fraternize.
The six were flying in an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, the Air Force equivalent of the Army's Black Hawk.
Maltz had considered retiring after 24 years in the Air Force to be near his son, Kyle, 16, and Cody, 12.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-04-10-forgottendead-usat_x.htm   (1398 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Why I Serve: AF Staff Sergeant Likes Being Part of the Bigger Picture
Air Force Staff Sgt. Georgina Baldwin takes pride in knowing that she is part of the team that takes care of the active duty personnel defending America.
Baldwin said she joined the Air Force to work in the medical field and is working toward the ultimate goal of getting her nursing degree.
Her husband also is an Air Force staff sergeant and therefore very understanding when her job sends her out of town, she said.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Sep2004/n09282004_2004092806.html   (450 words)

  
 George W Bush and the F-102
Base personnel strength varied during the period from 2,000 to 3,000 military personnel.
With the continued draw-down of air defense units in the United States, the 147th FIG came off runway alert on Jan. 1, 1970 to start a new mission: training all F-102 pilots in the United States for the Air National Guard.
And I went to basic flight school at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, came back, spent another six months or so on active duty learning how to fly the 102, transitioning from what was then-the last plane I flew was the T-38.
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 Moody Air Force Base receives excellence in ORI - The Valdosta Daily Times, Valdosta GA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE — Col. Brad Heithold and airmen celebrated Moody Air Force Base’s rating of excellent in an Operational Readiness Inspection that consisted of 18 months of exercises.
An inspector from Air Force Special Operations Center awarded Moody with an excellent rating and no marginal errors in what the hundreds of areas observed.
The rating is the second highest score the base may earn in the ratings that are listed from outstanding to unsatisfactory.
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 Air force base
Scott Air Force Base During World War I, pilots trained on a small field in the Shiloh Valley Township near Belleville, Illinois.
Amarillo Air Force Base, originally Amarillo Army Air Field, was activated in April 1942 and formally named an army air field in May.
Reese Air Force Base was a center for undergraduate pilot training for the United States Air Force fourteen miles west of Lubbock.
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 Moody AFB spared from list - The Valdosta Daily Times, Valdosta GA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
VALDOSTA — Moody Air Force Base received BRAC Commission recommendations Tuesday in a 7-1 vote, with one recusal, to remain off the base closure list and stay with the original Department of Defense recommendations from May 13.
Moody was on the table for the recommendation to receive the Naval Air Station in Oceana, Va., after the commission recommended closure of the base due to encroachment issues.
Jack Kingston, R-Savannah, said Moody remains a highly desirable base and the proposed Navy additions only strengthened the base’s position as an asset to the Air Force.
www.valdostadailytimes.com /content/1/16497/Moody+AFB+spared+from+list.htm   (309 words)

  
 DefendAmerica News - Profile Article
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) — A Marine pilot who recently joined the Air Force became the first military aviator to log 1,000 hours in the T-6A Texan II here Oct. 30.
MacLeod said he is excited about joining the Air Force and is honored to be the first military aviator to reach 1,000 flying hours in the T-6.
He said he joined the Air Force to fly the U-2, based at the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. He leaves for Beale in March.
www.defendamerica.mil /profiles/nov2002/pr110802a.html   (615 words)

  
 Air Force Times - News - More News
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — A contingent of airmen from the Air Force’s 38th Rescue Squadron departed Moody Air Force Base on Thursday for the northern Persian Gulf.
Past deployments by units at Moody such as the 38th, 41st and 71st Rescue Squadrons assigned to the 347th and the three squadrons assigned to the 820th Security Forces Group have been 90-day deployments.
The latest to be sent overseas from the base have not been notified when they will return.
www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1484228.php   (134 words)

  
 Air Force Link - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFPN) -- The 820th Security Forces Group here began the first military field durability tests on new chemical warfare garments Oct. 24.
The 820th SFG, which provides force protection for expeditionary air forces, is putting the latest version of the chemical warfare suit to the test to assess its fit, comfort, compatibility, performance and effectiveness in combat environments.
The plan eventually calls for a two-star general to head this new, versatile communications capability as the director of communications with a one-star deputy dual-hatted as the director of Air Force public affairs.
www.af.mil   (546 words)

  
 Moody Air Force Base Georgia Colleges and Universities
Moody Air Force Base Georgia Colleges and Universities.
For Moody Air Force Base Georgia students on the run, on the net university courses are becoming an exciting way to earn a degree or see a new skill.
Prospective students are encouraged to contact Moody Air Force Base Georgia schools and get additional info for whatever college they are interested in.
www.uscollegesearch.org /moody-air-force-base-georgia-colleges.html   (725 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Patrick Air Force Base, Kennedy Space Center Evacuated
This includes the personnel of Patrick Air Force Base and the Kennedy Space Center, both in Brevard County.
Military bases near the track of the storm have taken precautions.
Aircraft have been flown to other bases, ships are standing by with steam up in case they have to sortie, and National Guardsmen in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are standing by.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Sep2004/n09032004_2004090305.html   (427 words)

  
 Moody Air Force Base AFB, Georgia GA - Hotels, Lodging - A Helpful Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Moody Air Force Base is located in South Georgia, 30 miles north of the Florida border.
Moody is home to the 347th Rescue Wing.
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 Moody Air Force Base Housing Privatization Project | Industry Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Moody Air Force Base Housing Privatization Project
This forum provided an opportunity to learn more about the technical and financial aspects of the project, as well as an opportunity to tour the Quiet Pines Housing Area of Moody AFB.
In addition, a question and answer session was held during the conference.
www.bbpa.com /Moody/Moody_forum.htm   (198 words)

  
 Valdosta on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Moody Air Force Base is to the north.
A rescue team practices extracting a downed pilot during exercises at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia.
A military rescue team shouts orders to a downed pilot to determine if he is friend or foe during training exercises at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia.
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