The group also deploys to a variety of sites around the southeastern United States during training exercises.

[3] Group air traffic controllers and air traffic control maintenance personnel were included in the force deployed for Operation Eagle Claw, the failed 1980 attempt to rescue the hostages held by the government of Iran in the Tehran embassy.

[3] In 2009, combat communications units, including the group, were made part of Air Force Space Command.

Group personnel remained deployed to Southwest Asia for an additional three years to support the Cease Fire and maintaining United Nations resolutions.

[1] Members of the unit deployed to the Southwest Asia area of responsibility in March 1996 to support an Air Expeditionary Force.

When terrorists attacked Khobar Towers that year, the group was called upon again to deploy to the Persian Gulf.

More than 140 members of the 5th, along with 250 tons of equipment, left Robins for Prince Sultan Air Base, where they established a complete communications network beside a bare airfield.

They were part of a larger action by the United States to reposition some of its military forces to support the Global War on Terrorism and to prepare for future contingencies.