3079th Aviation Depot Wing
The 3079th Aviation Depot Wing, Air Material Command, United States Air Force, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was a weapons of mass destruction unit of key strategic importance and special weapons storage wing active until 1962.
It had five Aviation Depot Groups storing and maintaining nuclear weapons, The 3080th Aviation Depot Group at Caribou AFS / Loring AFB, ME ; 3081st Aviation Depot Group at Rushmore AFS / Ellsworth AFB, SD ; 3082nd Aviation Depot Group at Deep Creek AFS / Fairchild AFB, WA ; 3083rd Aviation Depot Group at Fairfield AFS / Travis AFB, CA ; and 3084th Aviation Depot Group at Stoney Brook AFS / Westover AFB, MA ; plus three squadrons which transported special weapons worldwide using C-124 Globemaster II aircraft. These were the 7th Logistic Support Squadron at Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia, the 28th Logistic Support Squadron based in Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah, and the 19th Logistic Support Squadron based at Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The 3079th ADW was inactivated effective 1 July 1962.
