The U.S. military is busy in Georgia.
The state’s military assets range from the No. 1 installation in the country for land warfare maneuver exercises at Fort Moore near Columbus to a major Department of Defense forensic lab in the country at the Fort Gillem Enclave south of Atlanta and the U.S. Army’s Cyber Command Center in Augusta.
Over at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Camden County, the Navy is preparing to transition its submarines from the Ohio class to the Columbia class nuclear weapons submarines, which the Navy hopes will serve as a sea-based nuclear deterrent into the 2080s.
At Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, troops are preparing to retire their A-10 attack aircraft to be replaced with a squadron of F-35 fighters.
Back in the 1990s, Moody was placed on the Base Realignment and Closure list, which meant it was set to be shut down. But community members like Lucy Greene, who, in 1991, co-founded the Moody Support Committee, led a successful effort to spare the base.