# Official Website: Hill Air Force Base

**Type:** source
**Status:** Useful
**Confidence:** Medium
**Source Type:** official-page
**URL:** https://www.hill.af.mil/
**Archive:** https://web.archive.org/web/20260626041830/https://www.hill.af.mil/
**Archived:** 2026-06-26
**Publisher:** 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs, U.S. Air Force
**Updated:** 2026-08-11

## Summary

hill.af.mil is the official public site for Hill Air Force Base, Utah, run by 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs. It aggregates base news, unit fact sheets (75th Air Base Wing, Ogden Air Logistics Complex, 309th Software Engineering Group, Utah Test and Training Range), employment information, and the base's annual Economic Impact Statement. The site is a federated collection of fact-sheet pages rather than a single organizational overview, and some subpages (Ogden Air Logistics Complex personnel counts, in particular) are not kept in sync with each other.

## Useful Claims

- The 75th Air Base Wing is the host unit at Hill AFB and describes the base as "the Air Force's second largest base by population and geographical size," supporting roughly 27,000 active duty, civilian, and contractor personnel across nearly 60 mission partners, plus the 1.1-million-acre Utah Test and Training Range and the 1,000-acre Little Mountain Test Facility.
- The Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OO-ALC) is Hill's largest tenant, known as the "Fighter Depot," providing depot-level maintenance, repair, overhaul, and engineering management for the F-35 Lightning II, F-22 Raptor, F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt II, and C-130 Hercules, plus sustainment of the Minuteman III ICBM system and work toward the Sentinel (formerly Ground Based Strategic Deterrent) program. OO-ALC personnel figures differ across hill.af.mil's own pages: one fact sheet cites "more than 8,100," a business-development page cites "over 9,000," and another cites "nearly 7,000" — treat all three as approximate.
- The 388th Fighter Wing (active duty) and the Air Force Reserve's 419th Fighter Wing fly and maintain 78 F-35A Lightning II aircraft from Hill in a Total Force partnership; the 388th alone has roughly 2,000 assigned airmen and civilians.
- The base's Employment page routes uniformed applicants to airforce.com and civilian applicants to USAJOBS.gov, notes high-demand civilian fields (engineers, scientists, contracting specialists, financial management specialists, budget analysts, cost estimators, logistics/supply chain specialists, security/police, some medical specialists), and describes a direct-to-recruiter Science and Engineering Recruitment Team path plus Direct Hire Authority for skilled trades that bypasses standard USAJOBS timelines.
- The base's 2024 Economic Impact Statement (PDF, Cost and Economics Division) reports a total workforce of 26,893 (5,608 active duty, 913 Air Force Reserve/Air National Guard, 14,151 government civilians, 6,221 contract civilians) and a total annual economic impact of $12.76 billion, supporting an estimated 67,046 direct and indirect jobs.
- A short official history traces the base to a 1939 Congressional appropriation for the "Ogden Air Depot," naming as "Hill Field" in December 1939 after Major Ployer P. Hill, groundbreaking on January 12, 1940, and activation on November 7, 1940; it was renamed Hill Air Force Base on February 5, 1948.

## Reliability Notes

This is the base's own official public-affairs site and is strong for mission descriptions, unit organization, employment pathways, and the base's self-reported economic-impact figures. It is weaker as a single source of truth for current personnel counts, since different fact-sheet subpages give different, unreconciled numbers for the same organization (OO-ALC) and are not consistently dated. Classified and program-specific details are, by design, absent; do not infer more about specific weapons-sustainment work than the fact sheets state.

## Related Pages

- [Hill Air Force Base](hill-air-force-base.md)
- [309th Software Engineering Group](309th-software-engineering-group.md)