Shepherd Field, 167th AW Operations Group, C-17 poster art.

Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base is the home base of the West Virginia Air National Guard 167th Airlift Wing, Operations Group located at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport, 4 miles south of Martinsburg, West Virginia. During peak surges, the installation population is approximately military 1500 personnel, consisting of both full-time Air Reserve Technicians (ART) and Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) and part-time Traditional Guardsmen (TG). The 167th Airlift Group was redesignated the 167th Airlift Wing (167 AW) on 1 October 1995 and as it became operationally capable in the C-130H-3 aircraft to perform its airlift mission. BRAC 2005 converted the wing’s aircraft from the C-130 Hercules to the C-5 Galaxy. In February 2012, the Force Structure Overview was released by the Secretary of the Air Force. The document detailed numerous aircraft changes throughout the active, Guard and Reserve forces, including the replacement of the unit’s C-5 aircraft with C-17’s. On September 25, 2014, the 167th Airlift Wing flew its final C-5 mission, a local training sortie. That same day the wing received its first C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, one of eight C-17s the unit is slated to receive.