Air Force reserve The May 1949 Air Force
reserve program called for a new type of unit, the corollary unit, which was a reserve unit integrated with an active-duty unit. The plan was viewed as the best method to train reservists by mixing them with an existing regular unit to perform duties alongside the regular unit, using the regular unit’s aircraft. Its objective was to permit reservists to be employed immediately upon mobilization, either as individuals or as a unit. However, corollary unit training had to be balanced against the regular unit’s mission, and deployment and exercise participation interrupted training activities. In this program, the
84th Fighter Wing was established as a corollary unit of the
52d Fighter Wing at
Mitchel Air Force Base, New York but was not manned until it moved to
McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey later that year. Even after its move, the wing remained undermanned and performed little training. and it was inactivated. In this reorganization, the wing was reactivated in 2005 as the
84th Combat Sustainment Wing. The wing was originally assigned four functional groups, but all but one of the groups was inactivated by 2008. The wing's mission was to provide system support manager functions for air-to-surface munitions, and multiple command, control, communication and intelligence (C3I) systems, and supply chain management for space systems, C3I systems, landing gear, power systems and multiple aircraft programs. After analyzing the results of the Air Force Materiel Command Transformation reorganization, the Air Force announced the Air Force Acquisition Improvement Plan in May 2009 and four months later announced the initiative would include a gradual return to the Directorate organizational model. ==Lineage==