Military & Veteran Resources
One installation carries this category on real numbers: one of only three Air Force depot-maintenance complexes in the country, and the base whose own squadron became the Air Force's first combat-ready F-35A unit.
Hill Air Force Base
Hill Air Force Base, established in 1940 on farmland at Layton's southern edge, remains one of Utah's largest employers today. It houses the Ogden Air Logistics Complex, one of only three Air Force Sustainment Center depot-maintenance hubs in the country (alongside Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base and Georgia's Robins Air Force Base), which performs depot-level maintenance, repair, and overhaul work the Air Force can't do at a typical operating base. Hill's 34th Fighter Squadron became the Air Force's first combat-ready F-35A unit, declaring Initial Operational Capability in August 2016. Confirm current civilian and military employment totals directly via the base's own public affairs office, since those figures shift with defense budgets and contract cycles.