Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide
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Guide to Air Force Installations ■ 2008 USAF Almanac Worldwide Major Active Duty Installations Altus AFB, Okla. 73523-5000; 120 mi. SW of acres. Runways: 9,755 ft. and 9,300 ft. Altitude: Barksdale AFB, La. 71110-5000; in Bossier Oklahoma City. Phone: 580-482-8100; DSN 281 ft. Personnel: permanent party military 5,502; City. Phone: 318-456-1110; DSN 781-1110. 866-1110. Majcom: AETC. Host: 97th Air Mobility DOD civilians, 3,247. Housing: single family, 886; Majcom: ACC. Host: 2nd Bomb Wing. Mission: Wing. Mission: trains aircrew members for C-17 visiting, 61, TLF, 20. Hospital. B-52H operations and training. Major tenants: and KC-135 aircraft. History: activated January 8th Air Force (ACC); Air Force Cyber Command 1943; inactivated May 1945; reactivated January Arnold AFB, Tenn. 37389; approx. 7 mi. SE of (Provisional); 917th Wing (AFRC), A-10, B-52H; 1953. Area: 7,746 acres. Runways: 13,440 ft., Manchester. Phone: 931-454-1110; DSN 340- 8th Air Force Museum. History: activated Feb. 9,000-ft. parallel runway, and 3,515-ft. assault 1110. Majcom: AFMC. Host: Arnold Engineer- 2, 1933. Named for Lt. Eugene H. Barksdale, strip. Altitude: 1,381 ft. Personnel: permanent ing Development Center. Mission: supports WWI airman killed in an August 1926 crash. party military, 1,464; DOD civilians, 1,166. Hous- acquisition and sustainment of aerospace sys- Area: 22,000 acres (18,000 acres reserved for ing: single family, 796; visiting, VOQ/VAQ, 315; tems by conducting flight simulation research, recreation). Runway: 11,756 ft. Altitude: 166 ft. TLF, 30. Clinic. development, and evaluation testing for DOD, Personnel: permanent party military, 7,306; DOD other government agencies, and commercial civilians, 1,164. Housing: single family, officer, Andersen AFB, Guam, APO AP 96543-5000; 2 mi. N aerospace firms with the world’s largest complex 131, enlisted, 592; unaccompanied, 996; visiting, of Yigo. Phone: (cmcl, from CONUS) 671-366-1110; of wind tunnels, jet and rocket engine test cells, VOQ, 139, VAQ, 100, TLF, 24. Superclinic. DSN 315-366-1110. Majcom: PACAF. Host: 36th space simulation chambers, and hyperballistic Wing. Mission: Pacific center for power projection, ranges. History: base dedicated June 25, 1951. Beale AFB, Calif. 95903-5000; 13 mi. E of Marysville. regional cooperation, and multinational training; Named for Gen. of the Army H.H. “Hap” Arnold, Phone: 530-634-3000; DSN 368-1110. Majcom: serves as a logistic support and staging base for wartime Chief of the Army Air Forces. Area: ACC. Host: 9th Reconnaissance Wing. Mission: aircraft operating in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. 39,081 acres. Runway: 6,000 ft. Altitude: U-2, KC-135, and Global Hawk operations. Major Major tenants: Det. 5, 22nd Space Operations Sq. 1,100 ft. Personnel: permanent party military, tenants: 940th ARW (AFRC), KC-135; 7th Space (AFSPC); 613th Contingency Response Gp. (AMC); 79; DOD civilians, 255. Housing: single family, Warning Sq. (AFSPC), PAVE PAWS; 548th Intel- 734th Air Mobility Sq. (AMC); Helicopter Combat officer, 19, enlisted, 21; visiting, 40. Medical aid ligence Gp. (ACC). History: originally US Army’s Support Sq. 5 (US Navy). History: activated 1945. station and small VA clinic. Camp Beale; transferred to Air Force in 1948; became Named for Gen. James Roy Andersen, who was Air Force base in April 1951. Named for Brig. Gen. chief of staff, Hq. AAF, Pacific Ocean Areas, and Aviano AB, Italy, APO AE 09604; adjacent E.F. Beale, Indian agent in California prior to Civil War. lost at sea in February 1945. Area: 20,270 acres. to Aviano, 50 mi. N of Venice. Phone: (cmcl, Area: 22,944 acres. Runway: 12,000 ft. Altitude: Runways: 11,182 ft. and 10,555 ft. Altitude: 612 ft. from CONUS) 011-39-0434-30-1110/1113; DSN 113 ft. Personnel: permanent party military, 3,742; Personnel: permanent party military, 2,108; DOD 314-632-1110. Majcom: USAFE. Host: 31st DOD civilians, 718. Housing: single family, officer, civilians, 1,561. Housing: single family, officer, Fighter Wing. Mission: LANTIRN-equipped F-16 159, enlisted, 1,294; unaccompanied, 545; visiting, 236, enlisted, 1,153; unaccompanied, UOQ, 74, operations and mobile radar control and surveil- VOQ, 53, VAQ/VEQ, 125, TLF, 46. Clinic. UAQ/UEQ, 1,018; visiting, VOQ, 23, VAQ/VEQ, lance operations. Major tenants: Hq. 401st Air 519, TLF, 232. Clinic. Expeditionary Wing (USAFE). Geographically Bolling AFB, D.C. 20032-5000; 3 mi. S of US Separated Units (GSUs): Det. 2, 401st AEW Capitol. Phone: 703-545-6700; DSN 227-0101. Andrews AFB, Md. 20762-5000; 10 mi. SE of Pristina (Kosovo) Serbia; Det. 1, 401st AEW, Host: 11th Wing. Mission: supports Hq. USAF Washington, D.C. Phone: 301-981-1110; DSN Sarajevo, Bosnia; 774th Expeditionary Air Base and 36,000 USAF members worldwide; oversees 858-1110. Host: 316th Wing. Mission: provides Gp., Istres AB, France; 31st RED HORSE Flt. USAF Band and USAF Honor Guard. Major contingency response capability critical to national and 31st Munitions Sq., Camp Darby, Italy; 31st tenants: Air Force Chief of Chaplains; Air Force security, including emergency reaction rotary-wing Munitions Support Sq., Ghedi AB, Italy; 99th Ex. District of Washington; Air Force Surgeon General; airlift for the National Capital Region. Major tenants: Recon. Sq., RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus; 496th Air Base Air Force Medical Operations Agency; Defense Hq. AFOSI; Air National Guard Readiness Center; Sq., Morón AB, Spain. History: one of the oldest Intelligence Agency; Air Force Legal Operations 89th AW (AMC); 113th Wing (ANG), F-16; 459th Italian air bases, dating to 1911. USAF began Agency; 497th Intelligence Gp. (ACC). History: ARW (AFRC), KC-135; Naval Air Facility; Marine operations 1954. Area: 1,331 acres. Runway: activated October 1917. Named for Col. Raynal C. Aircraft Gp. 49, Det. A; Air Force Review Boards 8,596 ft. Altitude: 413 ft. Personnel: permanent Bolling, first high-ranking Army Air Service officer Agency. History: activated May 1943. Named for party military, 3,500; DOD civilians, 260. Hous- killed in WWI. Area: 607 acres. Runway: Helipad Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, military air pioneer and ing: 681 govt.-leased (189 officer, 592 enlisted); only. Altitude: 20 ft. Personnel: permanent party WWII commander of the European Theater, killed in unaccompanied, UAQ/UEQ, 812; visiting, 74, DV, military, 1,408; DOD civilians, 822. Housing: aircraft accident May 3, 1943 in Iceland. Area: 6,853 6. Clinic (contracted with local hospital). single family, officer, 372, enlisted, 411; unac- 126 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2008 companied, UAQ/UEQ, 267; visiting, VOQ, 119, Dover AFB, Del. 19902-7209; 6 mi. SE of Dover. Alaska Range Complex and Red Flag-Alaska. VAQ/VEQ, 48, TLF, 100. Clinic. Phone: 302-677-3000; DSN 445-3000. Majcom: Major tenants: Arctic Survival School (AETC); AMC. Host: 436th AW. Mission: C-5 and C-17 168th Air Refueling Wing (ANG), KC-135; 353rd Buckley AFB, Colo. 80011-9524; 8 mi. E of Den- operations; operates largest DOD aerial port Combat Training Sq. History: activated October ver. Phone: 720-847-9011 DSN 847-9011. Maj- facility; houses military’s East Coast mortuary. 1944. Named for Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic aviation com: AFSPC. Host: 460th Space Wing. Mission: Major tenant: 512th AW (AFRC assoc.). His- pioneer who died in an Arctic rescue mission in provides global surveillance, space-based missile tory: activated December 1941; inactivated 1946; November 1929. Area: 19,790 acres (including warning, and space communications operations. reactivated February 1951. Area: 3,400 acres. 16 remote sites, 63,195 acres). Runway: 14,500 Major tenants: 140th Wing (ANG); Aerospace Runways: 12,900 ft. and 9,600 ft. Altitude: 28 ft. ft. Altitude: 534 ft. Personnel: permanent party Data Facility; Navy/Marine Reserve Center; Army Personnel: permanent party military, 3,350; DOD military, 2,930; DOD civilians, 633. Housing: Aviation Support Facility. History: activated April civilians, 1,040. Housing: single family, officer, single family, officer, 181, enlisted, 1,243; unac- 1, 1942 as a gunnery training facility. Named for 50, enlisted, 657; unaccompanied, UAQ/UEQ, companied, UOQ, 8, UAQ, 522, UEQ, 16; visiting, 1st Lt. John H. Buckley, a WWI flier, killed Sept. 504; visiting, VQ, 251, TLF, 0. Clinic. VOQ, 206, VAQ/VEQ, 328, TLF, 40. Outpatient 17, 1918. ANG assumed control from US Navy clinic. Worldwide in 1959. Became active duty Air Force base Oct. Dyess AFB, Tex. 79607-1980; WSW border of 2, 2000. Area: 3,832 acres. Runway: 11,000 ft. Abilene. Phone: 325-696-1110; DSN 461-1110. Ellsworth AFB, S.D. 57706-5000; 12 mi. ENE Altitude: 5,663 ft. Personnel: permanent party Majcom: ACC. Host: 7th BW. Mission: B-1 op- of Rapid City. Phone: 605-385-5056; DSN 675- military, 3,626; DOD civilians, 3,337. Housing: two erations. Major tenant: 317th Airlift Gp. (AMC), 5056. Majcom: ACC. Host: 28th BW. Mission: dorms and 351 single-family units. Clinic. C-130. History: activated April 1942; deactivated B-1 operations. Major tenants: Det. 21, Belle December 1945; reactivated as Abilene AFB Fourche Electronic Scoring Site; Det. 8, 372nd Cannon AFB, N.M. 88103-5000; 7 mi. W of September 1955. In December 1956, renamed for Training Sq. (AETC); Det. 226, AFOSI; Air Force Clovis. Phone: 505-784-1110; DSN 681-1110. Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, WWII fighter pilot who Financial Services Center. History: activated Majcom: AFSOC. Host: 27th Special Operations escaped from a Japanese prison camp, killed in January 1942 as Rapid City AAB; renamed June Wing. Mission: MC-130W and MQ-1 operations. P-38 crash in December 1943. Area: 6,342 acres 13, 1953 for Brig. Gen. Richard E. Ellsworth, killed History: activated August 1942. Named for Gen. (including off-base sites). Runway: 13,500 ft. March 18, 1953 in RB-36 crash.