476th Fighter Group | |
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Active | 1943–1943; 1943–1944; 1957–1960; 2009–present |
Country | United States |
Branch | United States Air Force |
Type | Group |
Role | Fighter/Attack |
Part of | Air Force Reserve Command |
Garrison/HQ | Moody Air Force Base, Georgia |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Kelly (Current as of April 2020) |
Insignia | |
476th Fighter Group emblem (approved 18 May 2010)[1] | |
Tail Code | FT |
Aircraft flown | |
Attack | A-10 Thunderbolt II |
The 476th Fighter Group (476 FG) is an Air Reserve Component (ARC) unit of the United States Air Force. It is part of the Tenth Air Force (10 AF) of Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), stationed at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. If mobilized to active duty, the group is gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC).
The group was active twice during World War II for brief periods, the first time in China as part of Fourteenth Air Force and the second time in the United States as a training unit.
In the late 1950s the group was activated to open Glasgow Air Force Base, Montana, but the role of Glasgow shifted to the support of Strategic Air Command (SAC)'s nuclear strike force and the group was inactivated in April 1960 and its assets transferred to SAC.
The group was most recently activated as a reserve associate unit in 2009.