Where the Airmen Are

The Air Force had 307,000 Active Duty population by far, with 13,672 airmen There’s that asterisk though: JBSA- airmen in uniform at the end of 2015, assigned—nearly double that of runner- Lackland counts 7,000 students among spread among dozens of bases, ﬁ elds, up Ramstein Air Base in Germany, which its permanently assigned population. If camps, and other operating locations has 7,548 airmen assigned. you remove the students, the population around the globe. Of this total end Third and fourth largest are Hurlburt at Lackland is 6,670, which would drop strength, more than 71,000 airmen—23 Field, Fla., and Joint Base Langley- the base to No. 4 on the list, between percent—are assigned to one of the 10 Eustis in Virginia. Langley and Nellis. most populous bases worldwide. Interestingly, Nellis AFB, Nev., at No. Seen below, in reverse order, are the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland 5 on this list, is the largest home station Top 10 Air Force bases as ranked by in Texas has the largest blue-suited that is actually called an Air Force base. Active Duty airmen assigned.

Minot Air Force Base 5,480

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson 5,521

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base 5,618

Travis Air Force Base 6,019

Kadena Air Base 6,363

Nellis Air Force Base 6,655

Joint Base Langley-Eustis 7,022

Hurlburt Field 7,389

Ramstein Air Base 7,548

Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland 13,672*

*Lackland: 6,670 without student population.

Source: Air Force Public Affairs. All data as of Dec. 18, 2015.

134 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2016