66th Air Base Group


The 66th Air Base Group is a non-flying United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Materiel Command Electronic Systems Center. It is stationed at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. The group is also the host unit at Hanscom Air Force Base.
The 66th ABG provide services to over 5,000 active duty, Reserve and National Guard military personnel and DoD civilians who work and live at Hanscom Air Force Base. Additionally, the 66 ABG supports over 100,000 retired military personnel, annuitants and spouses living in the six-state New England area and New York.

Overview

Activated as an Air Base Group in 1940, Redesignated as a Service Group on 13 June 1942. Disbanded on 1 February 1944. It was reactivated and Consolidated with the 66th Air Base Group / 66th Combat Support Group / 66th Mission Support Group in October 2010 at Hanscom, when the 66th Air Base Wing was inactivated.
The 66th ABG consists of the following:
  • 66th Security Forces Squadron
  • 66th Force Support Squadron
  • 66th Medical Squadron

    History

Stations:
Maxwell Field, AL, 1 September 1940; Montgomery Airport, AL, 3 October 1940; Santa Maria-Lompoc AAB, CA, 9 February 1943; Barksdale Field, LA, 2 May 1943 – 1 Feb 1944.

Lineage

66th Service Group
  • Constituted as the 66th Air Base Group on 16 August 1940
  • Reconstituted and consolidated with the 66th Mission Support Group as the 66th Air Base Group on 30 June 2010
66th Air Base Group
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