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Guide to Air Force Worldwide Installations Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide ■ 2016 USAF Almanac Active Duty Installations This section includes Air Force-owned and -oper- Hq. 8th Air Force (AFGSC), operational leader- Cape Cod AFS, Mass. 02561. Nearest city: ated facilities around the world. (It also lists the ship; Global Power Museum (AFGSC). History: Sandwich. Phone: 508-968-3283. Owning com- former USAF bases now under other service activated Feb. 2, 1933. Named for Lt. Eugene mand: AFSPC. Unit/mission: 6th SWS (AFSPC), leadership as joint bases.) The section does H. Barksdale, WWI airman killed in August missile warning. History: established April 4, not list all units or agencies at each base. Many 1926 crash. 1980, as Cape Cod Missile Early Warning Sta- USAF installations also host numerous tenants, tion. Renamed Jan. 5, 1982. including other USAF major command units and Beale AFB, Calif. 95903. Nearest city: Marysville. civil, DOD, federal, and other service entities. Phone: 530-634-3000. Owning command: ACC. Cavalier AFS, N.D. 58220. Nearest city: Cavalier. Units/missions: 7th SWS (AFSPC), missile warn- Phone: n/a. Owning command: AFSPC. Unit/ Altus AFB, Okla. 73523. Nearest city: Altus. ing; 9th RW (ACC), ISR, RPA operations; 548th mission: 10th SWS (AFSPC), missile warning. Phone: 580-482-8100. Owning command: ISRG (ACC), DCGS; 940th Wing (AFRC), C2, History: established 1975 as Army’s Mickelsen AETC. Unit/mission: 97th AMW (AETC), train- ISR, RPA operations. History: opened October Complex, an anti-ballistic missile facility. All but ing. History: activated January 1943. Inactivated 1942 as Army’s Camp Beale. Named for Edward perimeter acquisition radar inactivated 1976. May 1945. Reactivated August 1953. F. Beale, a former Navy officer who became a USAF took radar operational control 1977 and hero of the Mexican-American War and early site control 2007. Andersen AFB, Guam, APO AP 96543. Near- developer of California, as well as a senior ap- est city: Yigo. Phone: 671-366-1110. Owning pointee/diplomat for four Presidents. Transferred Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Colo. 80914. Nearest command: PACAF. Units/missions: 9th Opera- to USAF 1948. Designated AFB April 1951. city: Colorado Springs. Phone: 719-474-1110. tions Group Det. 3 (ACC), RPA operations; 22nd Owning command: AFSPC. Units/missions: SOPS Det. 5 (AFSPC), space operations; 36th Buckley AFB, Colo. 80011. Nearest city: Den- 721st MSG (AFSPC), support; NORAD/NORTH- Wing (PACAF), support; 36th CRG (PACAF), ver. Phone: 720-847-9011. Owning command: COM Alternate Command Center, Integrated bare base operations; 44th APS (AFRC), aerial AFSPC. Units/missions: 140th Wing (ANG), air Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment opera- port operations; 254th ABG (ANG), support, bare mobility, fighter operations, mobile missile warn- tions, training. History: operational April 20, 1966. base operations (254th RED HORSE); 724th ing; 460th SW (AFSPC), space surveillance, ASTF (AFRC); 734th AMS (AMC), air transporta- missile warning; 566th IS (ACC), intelligence; Clear AFS, Alaska, APO AP 99704. Nearest tion services. History: activated 1945 as North Air Reserve Personnel Center, Guard and city: Fairbanks. Phone: n/a. Owning command: Field. Renamed 1949 for Brig. Gen. James R. Re serve personnel support. History: activated AFSPC. Units/missions: 13th SWS (AFSPC), Andersen, lost at sea Feb. 26, 1945. Became April 1, 1942, as gunnery training facility. ANG 213th SWS (ANG), missile warning. History: part of Joint Region Marianas 2009. assumed control from Navy 1959. Became Ac- dates from 1961. tive Duty Air Force facility Oct. 1, 2000. Named Arnold AFB, Tenn. 37389. Nearest city: Man- for 1st Lt. John H. Buckley, WWI flier, killed Columbus AFB, Miss. 39710. Nearest city: chester. Phone: 931-454-3000. Owning com- Sept. 17, 1918. Columbus. Phone: 662-434-1110. Owning com- mand: AFTC/AFMC. Unit/mission: Arnold En- mand: AETC. Unit/mission: 14th FTW (AETC), gineering Development Complex (AFTC/AFMC), Cannon AFB, N.M. 88103. Nearest city: Clovis. training. History: activated 1942 for pilot training. flight, space, and missile ground testing. History: Phone: 575-784-4131. Owning command: dedicated June 25, 1951. Named for Gen. of the AFSOC. Unit/mission: 27th SOW (AFSOC), Creech AFB, Nev. 89191. Nearest city: Indian Air Force Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. special operations. History: activated August Springs. Phone: 702-652-1110. Owning com- 1942. Named for Gen. John K. Cannon, WWII mand: ACC. Units/missions: 78th ATKS, 91st Aviano AB, Italy, APO AE 09604. Nearest city: commander of all Allied air forces in the Mediter- ATKS (AFRC), 232nd Operations Sq. (ANG), Aviano. Phone: 011-39-0434-30-1110. Owning ranean Theater and former commander, Tactical 432nd Wing (ACC), RPA operations; 799th ABG command: USAFE-AFAFRICA. Units/missions: Air Command. (ACC), support. History: activated 1942 as 31st FW (USAFE-AFAFRICA), fighter operations; Army camp, air-to-air gunnery training. Closed 724th AMS (AMC), air transportation services. Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. 32925. Nearest city: 1947. Reopened 1948 and in 1951 became a History: dates from 1911 as Italian air base. Cocoa Beach. Phone: 321-853-1110. Owning USAF auxiliary field. In 1980s, officially named USAF began operations 1954. command: AFSPC. Unit/mission: 5th SLS Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field. In 2005, (AFSPC), space launch operations. History: renamed Creech AFB for Gen. Wilbur L. “Bill” Barksdale AFB, La. 71110. Nearest city: Bossier formerly NAS Banana River. Site of Joint Long Creech, commander, Tactical Air Command, City. Phone: 318-456-1110. Owning command: Range Proving Ground 1949. USAF took sole 1978 to 1984. AFGSC. Units/missions: 2nd BW (AFGSC), control 1950. Combined with NASA to form John bomber operations; 307th BW (AFRC), bomber F. Kennedy Space Center 1973. Designated Cape Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. 85707. Nearest operations, training; Hq. AFGSC, management; Canaveral AS 1974. city: Tucson. Phone: 520-228-3900. Owning AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2016 57 command: ACC. Units/missions: 55th ECG PEO-Armament (AFMC), acquisition. History: Acronyms & Abbreviations (ACC), electronic combat operations; 214th activated 1935. Named for Lt. Col. Frederick I. Eglin, AAB Army Air Base RG (ANG), RPA operations; 309th Aerospace WWI flier killed in aircraft accident Jan. 1, 1937. AAF Army Airfield Maintenance & Regeneration Group (AFMC), AB Air Base aerospace vehicle storage, regeneration; 355th Eielson AFB, Alaska 99702. Nearest city: ABG Air Base Group ABW Air Base Wing FW (ACC), fighter operations; 563rd RQG (ACC); Fairbanks. Phone: 907-377-1110. Owning com- ACC Air Combat Command 924th FG (AFRC), fighter operations; 943rd RQG mand: PACAF. Units/missions: 168th ARW ACG Air Control Group (AFRC), personnel recovery operations; Hq. (ANG), air mobility operations; 354th FW (PAC- ACS Air Control Squadron 12th Air Force (ACC), operational leadership. AF), aggressor force, fighter, Red Flag-Alaska ACTS Air Combat Training Squadron History: activated 1927. Named for two local operations, Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex ACW Air Control Wing aviators: 2nd Lt. Samuel H. Davis, killed Dec. support; Arctic Survival School (AETC), training. AETC Air Education & Training Command 28, 1921, and 2nd Lt. Oscar Monthan, killed History: activated October 1944. Named for Carl AFB Air Force Base March 27, 1924. Ben Eielson, Arctic aviation pioneer who died in AFDW Air Force District of Washington AFGSC Air Force Global Strike Command Arctic rescue mission November 1929. AFMC Air Force Materiel Command Dover AFB, Del. 19902. Nearest city: Dover. AFNWC Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Phone: 302-677-3000. Owning command: Ellsworth AFB, S.D. 57706. Nearest city: Rapid AFRC Air Force Reserve Command AMC. Units/missions: 436th AW (AMC), 512th City. Phone: 605-385-5056. Owning command: AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory AW (AFRC), air mobility operations; Air Force AFGSC. Units/missions: 28th BW (AFGSC), AFS Air Force Station Mortuary Affairs Operations (USAF). History: bomber operations; Air Force Financial Services AFSOC Air Force Special Operations activated December 1941. Inactivated 1946. Center (AFMC). History: activated January 1942 Command Reactivated February 1951. as Rapid City AAB. Renamed June 13, 1953, for AFSPC Air Force Space Command AFTC Air Force Test Center Brig. Gen. Richard E. Ellsworth, killed March 18, AFWA Air Force Weather Agency Dyess AFB, Texas 79607. Nearest city: Abilene. 1953, in RB-36 crash. AG Airlift Group Phone: 325-696-1110. Owning command: AFG- AGOW Air Ground Operations Wing SC. Units/missions: 7th BW (AFGSC), bomber Fairchild AFB, Wash. 99011. Nearest city: AGS Air Guard Station operations; 317th AG (AMC), air mobility opera- Spokane. Phone: 509-247-1212. Owning com- ALC Air Logistics Complex tions. History: activated April 1942. Inactivated mand: AMC. Units/missions: 92nd ARW (AMC), AMC Air Mobility Command January 1946. Reopened April 1956. Renamed 141st ARW (ANG), air mobility operations; USAF AMOG Air Mobility Operations Group December 1956 for Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, SERE School (AETC), training. History: activated AMOW Air Mobility Operations Wing AMS Air Mobility Squadron WWII pilot who escaped from a Japanese prison January 1942. Named for Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, AMW Air Mobility Wing camp, killed in P-38 crash in December 1943. USAF vice chief of staff at his death in 1950. ANG Air National Guard ANGB Air National Guard Base Edwards AFB, Calif. 93524. Nearest city: Rosa- F. E. Warren AFB, Wyo. 82005. Nearest city: ANGS Air National Guard Station mond.
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