Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is a
United States Air Force base located to the southeast of
Goldsboro, North Carolina. The base is named for Seymour Johnson, a native of Goldsboro, a Navy test pilot who died in an airplane crash near Norbeck, Maryland, on 5 March 1941. It is home to the
4th Fighter Wing (4 FW) of the
Air Combat Command (ACC), which functions as the host wing for the installation. The
916th Air Refueling Wing (916 ARW), an
Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) unit operationally gained by the
Air Mobility Command (AMC), and the
414th Fighter Group (414 FG), an
Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) unit operationally gained by
Air Combat Command (ACC), reside as tenant units.