While in command of the base, using its existing facilities, he worked on the construction and development of the underprivileged villages in the suburbs of the base and the city of Isfahan, and by providing drinking and sanitary water, electricity, and building bathrooms and other health and educational necessities in this village, apart from strengthening the building line of the Islamic Revolution, in the process of popularizing the army and connecting the army with the people as much as possible, he did a remarkable service.
Abbas Baba’ie, an officer differently described as the “mastermind of IRIAF’s capability to keep its F-14-fleet intact”, or simply a “war hero”. There are, however, numerous former IRIAF pilots who not only deny that Baba’ie ever even qualified on F-14s, but also outright refuse to even mention his name, most likely because of his close cooperation with the clerical regime in Capital.But it is a fact that he really is popular among people because of his achievements during the Iran and Iraq war.
