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Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide ■ 2012 USAF Almanac Active Duty Installations Abbreviations ABW/G Air Base Wing/Group ACW/S Air Control Wing/Squadron AFB/S Air Force Base/Station This section includes Air Force owned and oper- Beale AFB, Calif. 95903. Nearest city: Marys- AFDW Air Force District of Washington ated facilities around the world. (It also lists the ville. Phone: 530-634-3000. Owning command: AFGLSC Air Force Global Logistics Support Center former USAF bases now under other service ACC. Units/missions: 9th RW (ACC), ISR, RPA AFISRA Air Force ISR Agency leadership as joint bases.) It is not a complete operations; 548th ISRG (AFISRA), DCGS; 940th AFNWC Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center list of units by base. Many USAF installations Wing (AFRC), C2, ISR, RPA operations. History: AFOSI Air Force Office of Special Investigations host numerous tenants, not just other USAF opened October 1942 as Army’s Camp Beale. AFRICOM US Africa Command units but DOD, joint, other service, and federal Named for Edward F. Beale, a former Navy officer AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory AFWA Air Force Weather Agency and civil entities. who became a hero of the Mexican-American AGOW Air Ground Operations Wing War and early developer of California, as well ALC Air Logistics Center Altus AFB, Okla. 73523. Nearest city: Altus. as a senior appointee/diplomat for four Presi- AMS Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Phone: 580-482-8100. Owning command: dents. Transferred to USAF 1948. Designated AMW Air Mobility Wing AETC. Unit/mission: 97th AMW (AETC), train- AFB April 1951. AOC/G Air & Space Operations Center/Group ing. History: activated January 1943. Inactivated ARW/G/S Air Refueling Wing/Group/Squadron May 1945. Reactivated August 1953. Buckley AFB, Colo. 80011. Nearest city: Den- AS Air Station ver. Phone: 720-847-9011. Owning command: ASOS Air Support Operations Squadron AW/S Airlift Wing/Squadron Andersen AFB, Guam, APO AP 96543. Near- AFSPC. Units/missions: 140th Wing (ANG), C4 Command, control, communications, est city: Yigo. Phone: 671-366-1110. Owning air mobility, fighter operations, mobile missile & computers command: PACAF. Units/missions: 9th Opera- warning; 460th SW (AFSPC), space surveillance/ CACS Command & Control Squadron tions Group Det. 3 (ACC), RPA operations; 36th missile warning; Air Reserve Personnel Center, CENTCOM US Central Command Wing (PACAF), support; 36th CRG (PACAF), management. History: activated April 1, 1942 as CG Communications Group bare base operations. History: activated 1945 gunnery training facility. ANG assumed control CRW/G Contingency Response Wing/Group as North Field. Renamed 1949 for Brig. Gen. from Navy 1959. Became Active Duty Air Force DCGS Distributed Common Ground Station James R. Andersen, lost at sea Feb. 26, 1945. facility Oct. 1, 2000. Named for 1st Lt. John H. ECG Electronic Combat Group FTW Flying Training Wing Became part of Joint Region Marianas 2009. Buckley, WWI flier, killed Sept. 17, 1918. ISRW/G ISR Wing/Group IW/S Intelligence Wing/Squadron Arnold AFB, Tenn. 37389. Nearest city: Cannon AFB, N.M. 88103. Nearest city: Clovis. MOH Medal of Honor Manchester. Phone: 931-454-3000. Owning Phone: 575-784-1110. Owning command: MSG Mission Support Group command: AFMC. Unit/mission: Arnold Engi- AFSOC. Unit/mission: 27th SOW (AFSOC), MW Missile Wing neering Development Center (AFMC), ground special operations. History: activated August MXW Maintenance Wing test. History: dedicated June 25, 1951. Named 1942. Named for Gen. John K. Cannon, WWII NAF/S Naval Air Facility/Station for Gen. of the Air Force Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. commander of all Allied air forces in the Mediter- NORTHCOM US Northern Command NSF Naval Support Facility ranean Theater and former commander, Tactical NWS Naval Weapons Station Aviano AB, Italy, APO AE 09604. Nearest Air Command. PACOM US Pacific Command city: Aviano. Phone: 011-39-0434-30-1110. RPA remotely piloted aircraft Owning command: USAFE. Units/missions: Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. 32925. Nearest ROPS Range Operations Squadron 31st FW (USAFE), fighter operations; 603rd city: Cocoa Beach. Phone: 321-853-1110. RQW/G/S Rescue Wing/Group/Squadron ACS (USAFE), C2 air operations; 724th AMS Owning command: AFSPC. Units/missions: RW/G/S Reconnaissance Wing/Group/Squadron (AMC), air mobility operations. History: dates 5th SLS (AFSPC), space operations; Det. 1, SCMG Supply Chain Management Group from 1911 as Italian air base. USAF began 45th MSG (AFSPC), support. History: formerly SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape SLS Space Launch Squadron operations 1954. NAS Banana River. Site of Joint Long Range SMC Space and Missile Systems Center Proving Ground 1949. USAF took sole control SOCOM US Special Operations Command Barksdale AFB, La. 71110. Nearest city: 1950. Combined with NASA to form John F. SOW/G Special Operations Wing/Group Bossier City. Phone: 318-456-1110. Owning Kennedy Space Center 1973. Designated Cape STRATCOM US Strategic Command command: AFGSC. Units/missions: 2nd BW Canaveral AS 1974. STS Special Tactics Squadron (AFGSC), bomber operations; 917th Wing SW Space Wing (AFRC), bomber operations, training; Hq. AFG- Cape Cod AFS, Mass. 02561. Nearest city: SWS Space Warning Squadron SC, management; Hq. 8th Air Force (AFGSC), Sandwich. Phone: 508-968-3283. Owning TACC Tanker Airlift Control Center TRANSCOM US Transportation Command operational leadership; Mighty Eighth Air Force command: AFSPC. Unit/mission: 6th SWS TRW Training Wing Museum (AFGSC). History: activated Feb. 2, (AFSPC), missile warning. History: established TTP tactics, techniques, & procedures 1933. Named for Lt. Eugene H. Barksdale, WWI April 4, 1980, as Cape Cod Missile Early Warn- WEG Weapons Evaluation Group airman killed in August 1926 crash. ing Station. Renamed Jan. 5, 1982. 72 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 Cavalier AFS, N.D. 58220. Nearest city: Cava- WWII pilot who escaped from a Japanese prison support. History: activated 1956. Named after lier. Phone: n/a. Owning command: AFSPC. camp; killed in P-38 crash in December 1943. town of Grand Forks, whose citizens bought the Unit/mission: 10th SWS (AFSPC), missile property for the Air Force. warning. History: established 1975 as Army’s Edwards AFB, Calif. 93524. Nearest city: Rosa- Mickelsen Complex, a Safeguard anti-ballistic mond. Phone: 661-227-1110. Owning command: Hanscom AFB, Mass. 01731. Nearest city: Bos- missile facility. All but perimeter acquisition radar AFMC. Units/missions: 95th ABW (AFMC), sup- ton. Phone: 781-377-1110. Owning command: inactivated 1976. USAF took radar operational port; Air Force Flight Test Center (AFMC), test, AFMC. Units/missions: 66th ABW (AFMC), control 1977 and site control 2007. development; Propulsion Directorate (AFRL), support; Electronic Systems Center (AFMC), R&D; US Air Force Test Pilot School (AFMC), acquisition, R&D. History: activated 1941. Named Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Colo. 80914. Near- training. History: Muroc Bombing and Gunnery for Laurence G. Hanscom, a pre-WWII advocate of est city: Colorado Springs. Phone: 719-474- Range established September 1933. Designated private aviation, killed in lightplane accident 1941. 1110. Owning command: AFSPC. Units/ Muroc AAB 1942. Renamed in 1949 for Capt. missions: 721st MSG (AFSPC), support; Glen W. Edwards, killed June 5, 1948, in crash Hill AFB, Utah 84056. Nearest city: Salt Lake NORAD/NORTHCOM Alternate Command of YB-49 “Flying Wing.” City. Phone: 801-777-1110. Owning command: Center, Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack AFMC. Units/missions: 75th ABW (AFMC), sup- Worldwide Assessment operations, training. History: Eglin AFB, Fla. 32542. Nearest city: Niceville- port; 388th FW (ACC), fighter, Utah Test & Training operational April 20, 1966. Valparaiso. Phone: 850-882-1110. Owning com- Range operations; 309th MXW (AFMC), weapons mand: AFMC. Units/missions: 33rd FW (AETC), maintenance, repair; 419th FW (AFRC), fighter Clear AFS, Alaska, APO AP 99704. Nearest training; 46th Test Wing (AFMC), T&E; 53rd Wing operations; 748th SCMG (AFGLSC), weapons city: Fairbanks. Phone: n/a. Owning command: (ACC), operational T&E; 96th ABW (AFMC), sup- sustainment; AFNWC ICBM Systems Directorate AFSPC. Units/missions: 13th SWS (AFSPC), port; Air Armament Center (AFMC), acquisition, (AFNWC), ICBM acquisition, support; Hill Aero- missile warning; 213th SWS (ANG), missile R&D; Air Force Armament Museum (AFMC); space Museum (AFMC); Ogden ALC (AFMC), warning. History: dates from 1961. Munitions Directorate (AFRL), R&D. History: ac- weapons maintenance, repair. History: activated tivated 1935. Named for Lt. Col. Frederick I. Eglin, 1940. Named for Maj. Ployer P. Hill, killed Oct. 30, Columbus AFB, Miss. 39710. Nearest city: WWI flier killed in aircraft accident Jan. 1, 1937. 1935, test flying first B-17. Columbus. Phone: 662-434-1110. Owning command: AETC. Unit/mission: 14th FTW Eielson AFB, Alaska 99702. Nearest city: Holloman AFB, N.M. 88330. Nearest city: Ala- (AETC), training. History: activated 1942 for Fairbanks. Phone: 907-377-1110. Owning com- mo gordo. Phone: 575-572-1110. Owning com- pilot training. mand: PACAF. Units/missions: 168th ARW mand: ACC. Unit/mission: 49th Wing (ACC), (ANG), air mobility operations; 354th FW (PAC- fighter operations, RPA training.History: activated Creech AFB, Nev. 89191. Nearest city: Indian AF), aggressor force, fighter, Red Flag-Alaska 1941. Named for Col. George Holloman, guided- Springs. Phone: 702-652-1110. Owning com- operations, Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex missile pioneer. mand: ACC. Units/missions: 432nd
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