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General Discussion => Membership => Topic started by: Holding Pattern on April 28, 2015, 09:28:28 PM

Title: List of active Groups?
Post by: Holding Pattern on April 28, 2015, 09:28:28 PM
I can find squadron lists, region lists, wing lists, but finding information on groups so far is elusive. Is a list maintained of groups?
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: JeffDG on April 28, 2015, 09:32:45 PM
The Organization table in CAPWATCH includes all units, including Group HQs.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: Garibaldi on April 28, 2015, 09:41:03 PM
I can tell you GAWG just went through a reorg recently, and there are some new groups and some shuffling around of units between the groups as other units were created/consolidated or eliminated.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: Holding Pattern on April 28, 2015, 09:45:49 PM
Quote from: JeffDG on April 28, 2015, 09:32:45 PM
The Organization table in CAPWATCH includes all units, including Group HQs.

Excellent. I need to remember to look in there before asking questions like this...
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: Larry Mangum on April 29, 2015, 01:44:02 PM
You might not be able to find groups in WAWG, since the groups were disbanded over 8 years ago, under Col Maxwell.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: kwe1009 on April 29, 2015, 03:31:56 PM
I don't think South Carolina has groups either.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: JeffDG on April 29, 2015, 04:26:20 PM
Here are the states with groups, along with how many they have:

AZ   3
CA   8
CO   3
CT   2
FL   6
GA   6
IL   5
IN   4
MD   3
MI   8
MN   4
MO   4
NC   5
NHQ   3
NJ   3
NM   1
NY   9
OH   6
PA   6
PR   8
TN   4
TX   7
VA   4
WA   5
WI   6

Anyone from NM care to opine on why you would have 1 group?  Span of control doesn't make a lot of sense with just one.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: Eeyore on April 29, 2015, 05:22:04 PM
I may be completely making this up, but I seem to recall that NM has a group set aside for it's school based units.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: Larry Mangum on April 29, 2015, 08:05:10 PM
Quote from: JeffDG on April 29, 2015, 04:26:20 PM
Here are the states with groups, along with how many they have:

AZ   3
CA   8
CO   3
CT   2
FL   6
GA   6
IL   5
IN   4
MD   3
MI   8
MN   4
MO   4
NC   5
NHQ   3
NJ   3
NM   1
NY   9
OH   6
PA   6
PR   8
TN   4
TX   7
VA   4
WA   5
WI   6

Anyone from NM care to opine on why you would have 1 group?  Span of control doesn't make a lot of sense with just one.
WAWG use to have five groups, but eliminated them.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: lordmonar on April 29, 2015, 08:19:10 PM
Quote from: Eeyore on April 29, 2015, 05:22:04 PM
I may be completely making this up, but I seem to recall that NM has a group set aside for it's school based units.
About half way down the list......NM 1.
Sounds about right.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: JeffDG on April 30, 2015, 12:00:16 AM
Quote from: Larry Mangum on April 29, 2015, 08:05:10 PM
WAWG use to have five groups, but eliminated them.

Not according to NHQ.  They were all have commanders and everything.
WEST CENTRAL GROUP HEADQUARTERS (Lt Col Donald Long)
SOUTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS (Lt Col Kenneth Butler)
SOUTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS (Lt Col Karl Moore)
NORTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS (Lt col Russell Garlow)
NORTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS (Maj Vickie Scholla)

I can even tell which squadrons are assigned to which group:
NORTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   COLUMBIA BASIN COMPOSITE SQDN
NORTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   SPOKANE COMPOSITE SQDN
NORTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   PANGBORN COMPOSITE SQUADRON
NORTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   21ST FAIRCHILD COMPOSITE SQUADRON
NORTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   NORTHERN DESERT COMP SQ
NORTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   OVERLAKE COMPOSITE SQDN
NORTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   NORTHSHORE COMPOSITE SQDN
NORTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   PAINE FIELD COMPOSITE SQDN
NORTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   SKAGIT COMPOSITE SQDN
NORTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   ARLINGTON COMPOSITE SQDN
NORTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   BELLINGHAM COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   TRI-CITIES COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   TWIN W COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   YAKIMA COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   INTER-STATE COMPOSITE
SOUTHEAST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   BLUE MOUNTAIN COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   MOUNT SAINT HELENS COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   FORT VANCOUVER COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   MCCHORD AFB COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   SOUTH SOUND COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   MOUNT RAINIER COMPOSITE SQDN
SOUTHWEST GROUP HEADQUARTERS   LEWIS COUNTY COMP SQDN
WEST CENTRAL GROUP HEADQUARTERS   GREEN RIVER COMPOSITE SQDN
WEST CENTRAL GROUP HEADQUARTERS   SEATTLE COMPOSITE SQDN
WEST CENTRAL GROUP HEADQUARTERS   RENTON COMPOSITE SQDN
WEST CENTRAL GROUP HEADQUARTERS   DUNGENESS COMPOSITE SQUADRON
WEST CENTRAL GROUP HEADQUARTERS   PENINSULA COMPOSITE SQDN

Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: JeffDG on April 30, 2015, 12:09:09 AM
Quote from: Eeyore on April 29, 2015, 05:22:04 PM
I may be completely making this up, but I seem to recall that NM has a group set aside for it's school based units.

That would explain the presence of 1 and only one group.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: Larry Mangum on May 01, 2015, 01:38:54 PM
I stand corrected apparently Groups where brought back to wing in October of 2014. 
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: GroundHawg on May 02, 2015, 02:45:45 PM
Kentucky used to have groups but disbanded them for whatever reason. WIWAC there back in the day, the group structure there worked great. I wonder what, or who, happened. 
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: THRAWN on May 02, 2015, 02:51:51 PM
Quote from: GroundHawg on May 02, 2015, 02:45:45 PM
Kentucky used to have groups but disbanded them for whatever reason. WIWAC there back in the day, the group structure there worked great. I wonder what, or who, happened.

Any units close? Might have been able to justify the span of control.
Title: Re: List of active Groups?
Post by: GroundHawg on May 03, 2015, 01:22:17 PM
Quote from: THRAWN on May 02, 2015, 02:51:51 PM
Quote from: GroundHawg on May 02, 2015, 02:45:45 PM
Kentucky used to have groups but disbanded them for whatever reason. WIWAC there back in the day, the group structure there worked great. I wonder what, or who, happened.

Any units close? Might have been able to justify the span of control.

Wing wide, Im not sure. I know that in my group (NKY V), we actually added at least three squadrons that I remember, and one massive squadron split into four. Of those four two are left. Sad.