3079th Aviation Depot Wing
- 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 special weapons storage wing active until 1962.
It had four aviation depot groups storing nuclear weapons, and three squadrons which transported special weapons worldwide using C-124 Globemaster II aircraft. The 7th Logistic Support Squadron at Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia, was one of them, and there were two other sister squadrons, the 28th Logistic Support Squadron based in Ogden, Utah and another squadron based in San Antonio, Texas.
The 3079th ADW was inactivated effective July 1, 1962.
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