628th Air Base Wing

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628th Air Base Wing
628th Medical Group erects a decontamination tent during an exercise
Active	2010-present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Military installation support
Part of	Air Mobility Command
Garrison/HQ	Joint Base Charleston
Website	http://www.charleston.af.mil/units/
Commanders
Current commander	Col. Michael A. Freeman
Deputy commander	CAPT Andrew G. Peterson III (USN)
Executive Director	GS-14 Charles E. "Ched" Beam
Command Chief	CCM Rebecca Bateman
Command Master Chief	CMDCM Jeremy M. Konopka (USN)
Insignia
628th Air Base Wing emblem (Approved 20 September 2010)

Military unit

The United States Air Force's 628th Air Base Wing is an administrative unit located at Joint Base Charleston, in North Charleston, South Carolina. The 628 ABW was activated on 8 January 2010^[1] as Charleston Air Force Base was merged with Naval Weapons Station Charleston as a result of changes after Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations.

Naval Support Activity Charleston was reorganized as an "Embedded Military Unit" within the Joint Base Charleston 628 ABW. NSA Charleston Navy personnel are embedded into the Air Base Wing installation support squadrons to carry out their functions. After the creation of the Joint Base, the Naval Support Activity Charleston Commanding Officer became the Deputy Commander of the 628th Air Base Wing, responsible to the Wing Commander for base installation support.

The wing provides support services such as housing and facilities maintenance, security, childcare, public works, safety, communications, finance, logistics, medical support, personnel, public affairs, legal, food service, contracts, and recreation.

The 628th Air Base Wing's primary duties are to provide installation support to 53 Department of Defense and Federal agencies, supporting a total force of over 79,000 airmen, sailors, soldiers, marines, coast guardsmen, civilians, dependents and retirees on Charleston AFB and Naval Weapons Station Charleston. It maintains $2.0 billion worth of physical infrastructure across 23,000 non-contiguous acres. They also provide expeditionary airmen to combatant commanders in support of joint and combined operations.

Lineage

Constituted as the 628th Air Base Wing
Activated on 8 January 2010

Assignments

Eighteenth Air Force, 8 January 2010
United States Air Force Expeditionary Center, 1 January 2011 – present

Components

628th Mission Support Group, 8 January 2010 – present
628th Medical Group, 8 January 2010 – present
628th Air Base Wing Staff Directorate, 8 January 2010 – present

References

^ Joint basing at Charleston moves forward with activation of 628th ABW

^[1]

United States Air Force

Leadership

Structure

Commands	Reserve Air National Guard Field Operating Agencies Installations
Direct Reporting Units	District of Washington Operational Test and Evaluation Center USAF Academy
Major commands	ACC AETC AFGSC AFMC AFRC AFSOC AMC PACAF USAFE–AFAFRICA
Numbered Air Forces	First Second Third Fourth Fifth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Expeditionary Fifteenth Sixteenth Eighteenth Nineteenth Twentieth Twenty-Second
Wings ANG Groups ANG Squadrons ANG Security Forces Civilian auxiliary: Civil Air Patrol