Region areas Western Air Force Reserve Region: 31 December 1969 – 8 October 1976 (Hamilton AFB, CA) Re-designation of the Sixth Air Force Reserve Region Support components Individual Mobilization Augmentee Readiness Management Group: 1 April 2005 – present 8600th Air Force Reserve Command Support (later, 952nd Reserve Support Squadron; Air Force Reserve Command Force Generation Center): 1 February 1991 – present Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC): 1 July 1978 – 1 May 1983; 15 September 1997 – present Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service (AFRC/RS): 1 October 1994 – present 581st Air Force Band (later, Command Band of the Air Force Reserve; Band of the Air Force Reserve; Band of the USAF Reserve): 1 August 1968 – 1 October 2016 2400th Reserve Advisor Squadron (later, 2400th Reserve Readiness and Mobility Squadron; 951st Reserve Support Squadron): 1 December 1972 – present 953d Reserve Support Squadron: 1 July 1997 – 1 October 2011 954th Reserve Support Flight (later, 954th Reserve Support Squadron): 15 December 1997 – 1 October 2011 Stations Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, 1 August 1968 – present Notable Reservists Lt Col John Boccieri, former Member of Congress Maj Gen Howard Cannon, former United States Senator Maj Gen Thomas L. Carter, former Representative of the United States on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization Lt Col Doug Collins, former Member of Congress SSgt Jeff Denham, former Member of Congress Lt Gen Jimmy Doolittle, Medal of Honor recipient, first president of the Air Force Association, Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and first Air Force Reserve officer to achieve Lieutenant General (O-9) rank, albeit in the Army Air Forces, and the first Air Force Reserve officer to be promoted to General (O-10) on the Retired List Brig Gen Charles Duke, NASA Astronaut on Apollo 16 Col Michael E. Fossum, NASA Astronaut on STS-121 and STS-124 Maj Gen Barry Goldwater, former United States Senator Col Lindsey Graham, United States Senator Maj John Paul Hammerschmidt, former Member of Congress Lt Col Christopher B. Howard, President of Robert Morris University Col Ted Lieu, Member of Congress Maj Gen William Lyon, Southern California businessman and founder of the Lyon Air Museum Brig Gen Theodore Marrs, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Administration Maj Gen Joseph McNeil, member of the Greensboro Four Maj Gen Edward J. Mechenbier, former Prisoner of War