IR FORCE UNITS
Several U.S. Air Force units are assigned to Fort Benning in support of combat/training missions.
The 342d Training Squadron/Operation Location B works directly with the Infantry Center and School.
This office is responsible for the Air Force instructors assigned to the Infantry Center and all USAF students attending Fort Benning courses.

The USAF representative to the School of the Americas is a full- time faculty member in the Command and General Staff College Course,
at 706-545-5728.

The 17th Air Support Operations Squadron provides air liaison and close air support planning and control
for 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, the 75th Ranger Regiment and its 3rd Battalion.
This unit also performs weather forecastings, reporting and staffings for all units, assigned and transient,
at Fort Benning. The telephone number is 544-6398.

A total of 60 Air Force personnel are permanently assigned to Fort Benning.

Telephone Numbers

Telephone Numbers
66-1 17TH AIR SUPPORT OPERATIONS SQUADRON
1 US AIR FORCE (Bldg 2876 6632Dixe Rd) FAX 545-2318
CDR)....................................................................................545-5086
Dir of Ops...........................................................................545-7598
1SG...................................................................................545-1991
Sq Superintendent................................................................545-5748
SCHEDULING......................................................................545-1154
AFZP-VI-AF A FLIGHT, AIR LIAISON OFFFICE, 3D BDE, 3D IN DIV
(ALO) (Bldg 2876)............................545-8865
NCOIC)...............................................................................545-0297
B FLIGHT, AIR LIAISON OFFICE, 75TH RGR REGT(6411 Ashley Avenue)
AORG-RGR-AF (Bldg 2834 )(6411 Ashley Avenue) FAX 545-5744
ALO............................................................545-5745
ATZB-ISW C FLIGHT, USAF WEATHER FAX 545-3104
Weather Chief (Bldg 2485, Rm 110 JECHLIN RD)........................545-1614
NCOIC/Asst Sta Chief ..........................................................545-7313
DUTY FORCASTER................................................................545-5628
DOTY OBSERVER..................................................................545-3824
SUPPORT PERSONNEL
NCOIC, Personnel .................................................................545-1991
Logistics.............................................................................545-0514
NCOIC, Radio Maintenance...................................................545-0510
NCOIC, Power Pro...............................................................545-0508
TRAINING...........................................................................545-1905
66-2 OL-G 621ST AIR MOBILITY OPERATIONS GROUP
1 AOSO-RGR-AF FAX 545-5830
RANGER TALO Bldg 2834, Rm 118 ......................545-5748
Bldg 2876,(6632Dixe Rd)RM A01...............................................................545-9053
66-3 DET 4, 10TH COMBAT WEATHER STATION
RSOWT (Bldg 245 BILL ST ) FAX 545-3089
CDR............................................................................545-5764/3095
NCOIC.................................................................................545-3095
66-4 USAF REPRESENTATIVE TO WHINSEC
1 ATZB-SAJ-S (Bldg 35(35,MORRISON ST )RM 382) FAX 545-1827
USAF
8 ATZB-AF (IN Hall)USAF LNO..(6751 Constitution Loop).545-8530\

Lawson Army Airfield, the Aviation Facility of the U.S. Army Infantry Center, serves as the air terminal for major Forces Command units, the U.S. Army Infantry School and the aviation units at Fort Benning. In addition, it performs a service as the operating base for Military Aidift Command flights which support the Infantry School and the many other airlift missions for Fort Benning based Army units. These missions include use of CS, C17, C141, C130, civilian contract or chartered jet aircraft.
The airfield, its facilities and Air Traffic Control Services and Navigational Aids, are under the control of the Aviation Division, Directorate of Operations and Training, U.S. Army Infantry School, with the Chief of Aviation Division also serving as Airfield Commander.
The airfield was constructed before 1930 as a balloon landing field for the Infantry School under the name of the Fort Benning Airstrip. In August 1931, it was renamed after the highly decorated World War I veteran, Captain Walter Lawson, a native of Georgia who had been killed in an air accident. The airfield, as we know it today, began large scale modernizing in 1941 when the landing strips were paved. Today, the airfield complex includes two runways, one of which is an 8,200 foot runway with instrument landing system and ground controlled approach radar.