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Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide ■ 2012 USAF Almanac

Active Duty Installations Abbreviations ABW/G Air Base /Group ACW/S Air Control Wing/ AFB/S Air Force Base/Station This section includes Air Force owned and oper- Beale AFB, Calif. 95903. Nearest : 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 . 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, , APO AP 96543. Near- AFSPC. Units/missions: (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 . 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 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 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 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), 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 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, 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, , APO AP 99704. Nearest training; (AFMC), T&E; 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; (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- mo­gordo. Phone: 575-572-1110. Owning com- pilot training. mand: PACAF. Units/missions: 168th ARW mand: ACC. Unit/mission: (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: support; Arctic Survival School (AETC), training. (ACC), RPA operations, ground combat train- History: activated October 1944. Named for Carl , Fla. 32544. Nearest city: Fort ing, Test and Training Range support; Ben Eielson, Arctic aviation pioneer who died in Walton Beach. Phone: 850-884-7190. Owning Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Arctic rescue mission November 1929. command: AFSOC. Units/missions: 1st SOW Excellence. History: activated 1942 as Army (AFSOC), special operations; 24th SOW (AFSOC), camp, air-to-air gunnery training. Closed 1947. Ellsworth AFB, S.D. 57706. Nearest city: Rapid battlefield airmen operations; 505th Command & Reopened 1948 and in 1951 became a USAF City. Phone: 605-385-5056. Owning command: Control Wing (ACC), C2, ISR TTP development, auxiliary field. In 1980s, officially named Indian ACC. Units/missions: 28th BW (ACC), bomber test; Air Force Combat Weather Center (AFWA), Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field. In 2005, operations; Air Force Financial Services Center management; Air Force Special Operations renamed Creech AFB for Gen. Wilbur L. “Bill” (USAF). History: activated as Training Center (AFSOC), training; Hq. AFSOC, Creech, commander, , Rapid City AAB. Renamed June 13, 1953, for management; Hq. 23rd Air Force (AFSOC), 1978 to 1984. Brig. Gen. Richard E. Ellsworth, killed March 18, operational leadership. History: activated 1943. 1953, in RB-36 crash. Named for Lt. Donald W. Hurlburt, WWII pilot Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. 85707. Nearest killed Oct. 1, 1943. city: Tucson. Phone: 520-228-3900. Owning Fairchild AFB, Wash. 99011. Nearest city: command: ACC. Units/missions: 55th ECG Spokane. Phone: 509-247-1212. Owning com- Incirlik AB, , APO AE 09824. Nearest (ACC), electronic combat operations; 162nd mand: AMC. Units/missions: 92nd ARW (AMC), city: Adana. Phone: (cmcl, from CONUS) 011- FW (ANG), fighter operations; 214th RG (ANG), air mobility operations; 141st ARW (ANG), air 90-322-316-1110. Owning command: USAFE. RPA operations; 309th Aerospace Maintenance mobility operations; USAF SERE School (AETC), Unit/mission: 39th ABW (USAFE), support. & Regeneration Group (AFMC), aerospace training. History: activated January 1942. Named History: activated 1954. Named Adana AB Feb. vehicle storage, regeneration; 355th FW (ACC), for Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, USAF vice chief of staff 21, 1955. Renamed Incirlik AB Feb. 28, 1958. fighter operations; 563rd RQG (ACC), person- at his death in 1950. nel recovery operations; 943rd RQG (AFRC), JB Anacostia-Bolling, D.C. 20032. Nearest personnel recovery operations; Hq. 12th Air F. E. Warren AFB, Wyo. 82005. Nearest city: city: Washington, D.C. Phone: 703-545-6700. Force (ACC), operational leadership. History: Cheyenne. Phone: 307-773-1110. Owning Bolling owning command: AFDW. Air Force activated 1927. Named for two local aviators: 2nd command: AFGSC. Units/missions: 90th agencies: Chief of Chaplains (USAF); Surgeon Lt. Samuel H. Davis, killed Dec. 28, 1921, and MW (AFGSC), ICBM operations; 153rd CACS General (USAF); Air Force Legal Operations 2nd Lt. Oscar Monthan, killed March 27, 1924. (ANG), mobile C4 operations; Hq. 20th Air Force Agency (USAF); Air Force Medical Operations (AFGSC), operational leadership; Warren ICBM Agency (USAF). History: site activated October Dover AFB, Del. 19902. Nearest city: Dover. and Heritage Museum. History: activated as Fort 1917 with Army air and Navy elements. Formed Phone: 302-677-3000. Owning command: D. A. Russell July 4, 1867. Renamed 1930 for joint base under Navy lead 2010. NSF Anacostia AMC. Units/missions: 436th AW (AMC), air Francis Emory Warren, Wyoming Senator and named for adjacent Anacostia River. Bolling named mobility operations; 512th AW (AFRC), air first state governor. Reassigned to USAF 1949. for Col. Raynal C. Bolling, first high-ranking Army mobility operations; Air Force Mortuary Affairs Air Service officer killed in WWI. Operations Center (USAF). History: activated Goodfellow AFB, Tex. 76908. Nearest city: San December 1941. Inactivated 1946. Reactivated Angelo. Phone: 325-654-1110. Owning com- JB Andrews, Md. 20762. Nearest city: February 1951. mand: AETC. Unit/mission: 17th TRW (AETC), Washington, D.C. Phone: 301-981-1110. Owning training. History: established August 1940. Of- command: AFDW (USAF). Units/missions: 11th Dyess AFB, Tex. 79607. Nearest city: Abilene. ficially activated January 1941. Named for 1st Lt. Wing (AFDW), helicopter operations, support; Phone: 325-696-1110. Owning command: John J. Goodfellow Jr., WWI observation airplane (AFDW); 89th AW (AMC), ACC. Units/missions: 7th BW (ACC), bomber pilot killed in combat Sept. 14, 1918. air mobility operations; (ANG), air operations; (AMC), air mobility, fighter operations; 459th ARW (AFRC), mobility operations. History: activated April Grand Forks AFB, N.D. 58205. Nearest city: air mobility operations; 844th CG (AFDW), cyber 1942. Deactivated December 1945. Reactivated Grand Forks. Phone: 701-747-3000. Owning operations; Hq. AFOSI (USAF), management; Air as Abilene AFB September 1955. Renamed command: AMC. Units/missions: 69th RG Force Review Boards Agency (USAF); Air National December 1956 for Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, (ACC), RPA operations; 319th ABW (AMC), Guard Readiness Center (ANG), support. History:

AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 73 Md. Maine R.I. JB Anacostia- Bolling N.H. Hanscom AFB (AFMC) AFB Hanscom JB McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst (AMC) Mass. JB Andrews Conn. Dover AFB (AMC) Vt. (AMC) JB Langley-Eustis (ACC) Patrick AFB (AFSPC) MacDill AFB (AMC) Arnold AFB (AFMC) Seymour Johnson AFB (ACC) N.J. Washington, D.C. Washington, Shaw AFB (ACC) Md. Del. Va. Hq. USAF N.Y. JB Charleston (AMC) Va. Pa. N.C. Robins AFB (AFMC) Fla. S.C. W. Va. W. Ga. Moody AFB (ACC) Wright-Patterson AFB (AFMC) Ky. Tenn. Mich. Ind. Ala. Columbus AFB (AETC) Scott AFB (AMC) Mich. Ill. Miss. Eglin AFB (AFMC) Tyndall AFB (AETC) Tyndall Maxwell AFB (AETC) AFB Maxwell Wis. Hurlburt Field (AFSOC) La. Mo. Ark. Keesler AFB (AETC) Iowa Little Rock AFB (AMC) Minn. Whiteman AFB (AFGSC) Cavalier AFS (AFSPC) JBSA-Randolph (AETC) JBSA-Lackland (AETC) Vance AFB (AETC) AFB Vance Okla. Barksdale AFB (AFGSC) AFB Barksdale (AMC) Altus AFB (AETC) Kan. Offutt AFB (ACC) Neb. N.D. S.D. McConnell AFB (AMC) Minot AFB (AFGSC) Grand Forks AFB Ellsworth AFB (ACC) Tex. Tinker AFB (AFMC) Tinker (AETC) Laughlin AFB Dyess AFB (ACC) Colo. Sheppard AFB (AETC) F. E. Warren AFB E. Warren F. (AFGSC) Goodfellow AFB (AETC) N.M. Hill AFB (AFMC) Wyo. (AFSPC) Holloman AFB (ACC) USAF Academy Mont. Kirtland AFB (AFMC) Cannon AFB (AFSOC) Hawaii Buckley AFB (AFSPC) Peterson AFB (AFSPC) Schriever AFB (AFSPC) Malmstrom AFB (AFGSC) Oahu Cheyenne Mtn. AFS Utah JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam (PACAF) Ariz. Idaho Major Active Duty Air Force Bases in the US Major Active Duty Air Force Mountain Home AFB (ACC) Luke AFB (AETC) Nev. Creech AFB (ACC) Wash. Nellis AFB (ACC) Alaska Ore. Davis-Monthan AFB (ACC)

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Eielson AFB (PACAF) Clear AFS (AFSPC) (AFSPC) JB Elmendorf-Richardson (PACAF) Beale AFB (ACC) Travis AFB (AMC) Travis Vandenberg AFB Vandenberg Edwards AFB (AFMC) Fairchild AFB (AMC) (AFSPC) AFB Angeles Los JB Lewis-McChord (AMC)

74 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 Andrews activated May 1943. NAF Washington activated 1917. Navy purchased Army’s Camp US forces April 1945. Named for city of Kadena dates from 1919 at Anacostia (above); moved Kendrick in 1921 for airship station, renamed on island of Okinawa. to Andrews 1958. Formed JB Andrews-NAF Lakehurst for city of Lakehurst, N.J. Formed as Washington under Air Force lead 2010. Andrews joint base under Air Force lead 2009. McGuire Keesler AFB, Miss. 39534. Nearest city: Biloxi. named for Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, military air named for Maj. Thomas B. McGuire Jr., P-38 pilot, Phone: 228-377-1110. Owning command: pioneer and WWII commander of the European second leading US ace of WWII, MOH recipient, AETC. Units/missions: 81st TRW (AETC), Theater, killed in aircraft accident May 3, 1943, killed in action Jan. 7, 1945. Dix named for Maj. training; 403rd Wing (AFRC), air mobility op- in Iceland. Gen. John Adams Dix, War of 1812 and Civil War erations, weather reconnaissance; Hq. 2nd Air veteran and US Senator. Force (AETC), operational leadership. History: JB Charleston, S.C. 29404. Nearest city: activated June 12, 1941. Named for 2nd Lt. Charleston. Phone: 843-963-1110. Owning JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii 96853. Nearest Samuel R. Keesler Jr., a native of Mississippi and command: AMC. Units/missions: 315th AW city: Honolulu. Phone: 808-449-7110. Hickam WWI aerial observer killed in action Oct. 9, 1918. (AFRC), air mobility operations; 437th AW (AMC), owning command: PACAF. Units/missions: 15th air mobility operations; 628th ABW (AMC), sup- Wing (PACAF), air mobility, fighter operations; Kirtland AFB, N.M. 87117. Nearest city: port. History: activated 1942. Inactivated March (ANG), air mobility, fighter operations; Albuquerque. Phone: 505-846-1110. Owning 1946. Reactivated August 1953. Formed joint base 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing (AMC), air command: AFMC. Units/missions: 58th SOW with NWS Charleston under Air Force lead 2010. mobility operations; 613th AOC, C2 operations; (AETC), special operations, pararescue training; Named for city of Charleston. 624th Regional Support Group (AFRC), bare 150th FW (ANG), special operations, parares- base operations; Hq. PACAF, management; Hq. cue training; 377th ABW (AFMC), support; Air JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska 99506. 13th Air Force (PACAF), operational leadership. Force Inspection Agency (USAF), inspection; Nearest city: Anchorage. Phone: 907-552-1110. History: Pearl Harbor established 1908. Hickam Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation Center Elmendorf owning command: PACAF. Units/ dedicated 1935. Activated 1938. Formed as joint (USAF), test, R&D; AFNWC (AFMC), acquisition, missions: (PACAF), air mobility, C2, base under Navy lead 2010. Hickam named for sustainment; Air Force Safety Center (USAF), fighter operations; (ANG), air mobil- Lt. Col. Horace M. Hickam, aviation pioneer killed management; Phillips Research Site, Directed ity, personnel recovery operations; 477th FG in crash in Nov. 5, 1934. Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates (AFRL), (AFRC), fighter operations; 673rd ABW (PACAF), R&D; Space Development & Test Directorate support; Alaskan NORAD Region, operational JB San Antonio, Tex. 78234. Nearest city: San (SMC), test. History: activated January 1941. leadership; Hq. Alaskan Command (PACOM), Antonio. Phone: 210-221-1211. Major compo- Named for Col. Roy C. Kirtland, aviation pioneer management; Hq. 11th Air Force (PAC­AF), nents: Fort Sam Houston, JBSA-Lackland, and who died May 2, 1941. operational leadership; Joint Task Force Alaska JBSA-Randolph. (See separate entries for Lack- (NORTHCOM), operational leadership. History: land and Randolph.) Unit/mission: 502nd ABW Kunsan AB, , APO AP 96264. Near- activated July 1940. Formed as joint base under (AETC), located at Fort Sam Houston, support. est city: Kunsan. Phone: 011-82-63-470-1110. Air Force lead 2010. Elmendorf named for Capt. History: established 2009 to consolidate the Owning command: PAC­AF. Unit/mission: 8th Hugh El­mendorf, killed Jan. 13, 1933, flying an installation management and support functions FW (PACAF), fighter operations. History: built experimental fighter. Richardson named for Army for the military facilities in San Antonio as part by the Japanese in 1938. US operations began Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, who served in of BRAC 2005. in April 1951. Alaska territory from 1897 to 1917. JBSA-Lackland, Tex. 78236. Nearest city: San , Azores, Portugal, APO AE 09720. JB Langley-Eustis, Va. 23665. Nearest city: Antonio. Phone: 210-671-2908. Owning com- Nearest city: Praia de Vitoria. Phone: 011- Hampton. Phone: 757-764-1110. Langley own- mand: AETC. Units/missions: 37th TRW (AETC), 351-295-57-1110. Owning command: USAFE. ing command: ACC. Units/missions: 1st FW training; (AETC), ambulatory Unit/mission: 65th ABW, support. History: US (ACC), fighter operations; 192nd FW (ANG), surgical; 149th FW (ANG), cyber, fighter opera- operations began 1943. fighter operations; 480th ISRW (AFISRA), ISR tions; 802nd MSG (AETC), support; Hq. 24th Air operations; 633rd ABW (ACC), support; Air Force Force (AFSPC), operational leadership; Hq. Laughlin AFB, Tex. 78843. Nearest city: Del Command & Control Integration Center (ACC), AFISRA (USAF), management; Hq. Air Force Rio. Phone: 830-298-3511. Owning command: C2 development; Hq. ACC, management. His- Security Forces Center (USAF), management. AETC. Unit/mission: 47th FTW, training. His- tory: activated Dec. 30, 1916. Formed as joint History: activated 1941 as part of . tory: activated July 1942. Named for 1st Lt. Jack base under Air Force lead 2010. Lang­ley is first Designated independent installation July 1942 Thom­as Laughlin, Del Rio native, B-17 pilot, killed in US purchased and built specifically as San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. Placed Jan. 29, 1942. for military aviation. Langley named for aviation under installation man- pioneer and scientist Sam­uel Pier­pont Lang­ley, agement umbrella 2009. (Also see JBSA entry.) Little Rock AFB, Ark. 72099. Nearest city: who died 1906. Eustis named for Brevet Brig. Named 1947 for Brig. Gen. Frank D. Lackland, Jacksonville. Phone: 501-987-1110. Owning Gen. Abraham Eustis, first commanding officer early commandant of Kelly Field flying school, command: AMC. Units/missions: 19th AW of Fort Monroe, Va. who died 1943. (AMC), air mobility operations; 189th AW (ANG), training; 314th AW (AETC), training. History: JB Lewis-McChord, Wash. 98438. Nearest city: JBSA-Randolph, Tex. 78150. Nearest city: activated Oct. 9, 1955. Tacoma. Phone: 253-982-1110. McChord own- San Antonio. Phone: 210-652-1110. Owning ing command: AMC. Units/missions: 62nd AW command: AETC. Units/missions: 12th FTW Los Angeles AFB, Calif. 90245. Nearest city: (AMC), air mobility operations; 446th AW (AFRC), (AETC), training; 902nd MSG (AETC), support; El Segundo. Phone: 310-653-1110. Owning air mobility operations; 627th ABG (AMC), sup- Air Force Manpower Agency (USAF), manage- command: AFSPC. Units/missions: 61st ABG port. History: Lewis established 1917; McChord ment; Air Force Personnel Center (USAF), man- (AFSPC), support; Space and Missile Systems activated May 5, 1938. Formed as joint base agement; Air Force Recruiting Service (AFPC), Center (AFSPC), acquisition, R&D. History: under Army lead 2010. Lewis named for Capt. management; Air Force Services Agency (USAF), Designated LA AFS April 30, 1964. Redesignated Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark Expedition. management; Hq. 19th AF (AETC), operational LA AFB Sept. 15, 1987. SMC, activated July 1, McChord named for Col. William C. Mc­Chord, leadership; Hq. AETC, management. History: 1992, dates from Air Research and Development killed Aug. 18, 1937. dedicated June 1930. Placed under Joint Base Com­mand’s Western Development Division, San Antonio installation management umbrella activated July 1, 1954. JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. 08641. Near- 2009. (Also see JBSA entry.) Named for Capt. est city: Wrightstown. Phone: 609-754-1100. William M. Ran­dolph, killed Feb. 17, 1928. Luke AFB, Ariz. 85309. Nearest city: Phoenix. McGuire owning command: AMC. Units/mis- Phone: 623-856-1110. Owning command: sions: 87th ABW (AMC), support; 108th ARW Kadena AB, Japan, APO AP 96368. Nearest city: AETC. Units/missions: 56th FW (AETC), train- (ANG), air mobility operations; 305th AMW (AMC), Naha. Phone: 011-81-6117-34-1110. Owning ing; 56th Range Management Office (AETC), air mobility operations; 514th AMW (AFRC), air command: PACAF. Units/missions: 1st Battal- Barry M. Goldwater Range operations; 944th mobility operations; 621st Contingency Response ion, 1st Air Defense Artillery (Army), air, missile FW (AFRC), fighter operations, training.History: Wing (AMC), bare base operations; US Air Force defense; (PACAF), air mobility, fighter, activated 1941. Named for 2nd Lt. Frank Luke Jr., Expeditionary Center (AMC), training. History: ISR, personnel recovery operations; 353rd SOG observation balloon-busting ace of WWI and first McGuire activated 1941 as Fort Dix AAB. Closed (AFSOC), special operations; Cmdr. Fleet Activities American aviator to receive MOH, killed in action after WWII. Reopened as McGuire 1948. Dix Okinawa (Navy), support. History: occupied by Sept. 29, 1918.

AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 75 Major Active Duty Air Force Bases Overseas

Finland RAF Lakenheath

Norway Sweden RAF Mildenhall Europe Note: All bases on this map are Estonia USAFE bases. Baltic Sea

North Sea Latvia No. Ireland Denmark Lithuania Ireland Russia Belarus

United Poland Kingdom Neth. Germany Belgium

Luxembourg Czech Rep. Ukraine Slovakia Austria Moldova Atlantic Ocean Romania France Switz. Hungary Slovenia Black Sea Aviano AB Italy Croatia Bosnia Serbia and Montenegro Bulgaria Portugal Macedonia Spain Spangdahlem AB Turkey Ramstein AB Albania Greece Incirlik AB

Mediterranean Sea Pacific Note: All bases on this map Russia are PACAF bases.

China

Misawa AB CanadaAtlantic Sea of Japan

Atlantic Ocean Osan AB Lajes Field (USAFE) Japan Portugal Yellow Kunsan AB Yokota AB Azores Sea South Korea

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76 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621. Nearest city: Tampa. Nellis AFB, Nev. 89191. Nearest city: Las RAF Lakenheath, UK, APO AE 09461. Nearest Phone: 813-828-1110. Owning command: Vegas. Phone: 702-652-1110. Owning com- city: Cambridge. Phone: 011-44-1638-52-1110. AMC. Units/missions: 6th AMW (AMC), air mand: ACC. Units/missions: (ACC), Owning command: USAFE. Unit/mission: mobility operations; 927th ARW (AFRC), air combat training; 99th ABW (ACC), support; 48th FW, fighter, personnel recovery operations. mobility operations; Hq. CENTCOM, operational 563rd RQG OL A (ACC), personnel recovery History: began as decoy field in leadership; Hq. SOCOM, operational leadership; operations; 926th Group (AFRC), associate 1930s. Activated as RAF airfield November 1941. Joint Special Operations University (SOCOM), missions at Creech, Eglin, Nellis; USAF War- USAF arrived August 1948. USAF took education. History: activated April 15, 1941. fare Center (ACC), operational testing, tactics administrative control May 1951. Named after Named for Col. Leslie MacDill, killed in aircraft development, training, Nevada Test and Training nearby village. accident Nov. 8, 1938. Range operations. History: activated July 1941 as Las Vegas AAF with Army Air Corps Flexible RAF Mildenhall, UK, APO AE 09459. Nearest Malmstrom AFB, Mont. 59402. Nearest city: Gunnery School. Closed 1947. Reopened 1948. city: Cambridge. Phone: 011-44-1638-54-1110. Great Falls. Phone: 406-731-1110. Owning Named for 1st Lt. William H. Nellis, WWII P-47 Owning command: USAFE. Units/missions: command: AFGSC. Unit/mission: 341st MW fighter pilot, killed Dec. 27, 1944. 95th RS (ACC), ISR operations; 100th ARW (AFGSC), ICBM operations. History: activated (USAFE), air mobility operations; 352nd SOG Dec. 15, 1942. Named for Col. Einar A. Malmstrom, Offutt AFB, Neb. 68113. Nearest city: Bellevue. (AFSOC), special operations; 488th IS (ACC), ISR WWII fighter commander killed in air accident Phone: 402-294-1110. Owning command: ACC. operations. History: activated as RAF bomber Aug. 21, 1954. Units/missions: (ACC), C2, electronic base October 1934. Named after nearby town. attack, and ISR operations, support, training; US bomber operations began July 1950. SAC had Maxwell AFB, Ala. 36112. Nearest city: Montgom- 170th Group (ANG), C2, electronic attack, ISR control from October 1951 to July 1959, when ery. Phone: 334-953-1110. Owning command: operations, support, training; Air Force Weather USAFE took over. AETC. Units/missions: 42nd ABW (AETC), sup- Agency (USAF), management; Hq. STRATCOM, port; 908th AW (AFRC), air mobility operations; operational leadership. History: activated 1896 Ramstein AB, Germany, APO AE 09094. Nearest Air Force Historical Research Agency (USAF), as Army’s Fort Crook. Used for airships from city: Ramstein. Phone: 011-49-6371-47-1110. historical documentation, research; Air Force 1918 and aircraft cross-country stop from 1921. Owning command: USAFE. Units/missions: Legal Operations Agency (USAF), management; Landing field named May 10, 1924, for 1st Lt. 86th AW (USAFE), air mobility operations, sup- Air Force Logistics Management Agency (USAF), Jarvis J. Offutt, WWI pilot who died Aug. 13, 1918. port, including Kaiserslautern Military Community; management; Air University (AETC), education; Served as bomber production facility January 435th AGOW (USAFE), battlefield airmen opera- Hq. (USAF), management. History: 1942 to September 1945. Redesignated Offutt tions; 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing (AMC), activated 1918 at the site of the Wright brothers’ Field June 1946. Redesignated Offutt AFB with air mobility operations; Hq. 3rd AF (USAFE), flight school. Named for 2nd Lt. William C. Maxwell, Jan. 13, 1948, transfer to USAF. operational leadership; Hq. USAFE, management. killed in air accident Aug. 12, 1920. History: originally Landstuhl AB, activated August Osan AB, South Korea, APO AP 96278. Near- 1952. Reactivated December 1957 as Ramstein- McConnell AFB, Kan. 67221. Nearest city: Wich­ est city: . Phone: 011-82-31-661-1110. Landstuhl AB; later redesignated Ramstein AB. ita. Phone: 316-759-6100. Owning command: Owning command: PACAF. Units/missions: AMC. Units/missions: 22nd ARW (AMC), air 51st FW (PACAF), fighter operations; Hq. 7th Robins AFB, Ga. 31098. Nearest city: War- mobility operations; 184th IW (ANG), battlefield Air Force (PACAF), operational leadership. ner Robins. Phone: 478-926-1110. Owning airmen, cyber, C2, range operations; 931st ARG History: originally designated K-55. command: AFMC. Units/missions: 78th ABW (AFRC), air mobility operations. History: activated opened December 1952. Renamed Osan AB (AFMC), support; 116th ACW (ANG), C2 opera- June 5, 1951. Named for three Wichita natives, 1956 for nearby town that was the scene of tions; 461st ACW (ACC), C2 operations; 689th the McConnell brothers—Lt. Col. Edwin M. (died first fighting in July 1950 between US and North Combat Communications Wing (AFSPC), cyber Sept. 1, 1997), Capt. Fred J. (died in a private Korean forces. operations; Hq. AFRC, management; Warner airplane crash Oct. 25, 1945), and 2nd Lt. Thomas Robins ALC (AFMC), weapons maintenance, L. (killed July 10, 1943)—all WWII B-24 pilots. Patrick AFB, Fla. 32925. Nearest city: Co- repair. History: activated March 1942. Named coa Beach. Phone: 321-494-1110. Owning for Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins, an early Minot AFB, N.D. 58705. Nearest city: Minot. command: AFSPC. Units/missions: 45th chief of the Army Air Corps’ Materiel Division, who Phone: 701-723-1110. Owning command: SW (AFSPC), space operations; 114th ROPS died June 16, 1940. AFGSC. Units/missions: 5th BW (AFGSC), (ANG), launch range support; 920th RQW bomber operations; 91st MW (AFGSC), ICBM (AFRC), personnel recovery operations; Air Schriever AFB, Colo. 80912. Nearest city: operations. History: activated January 1957. Force Technical Applications Center (AFISRA), Colorado Springs. Phone: 719-567-1110. Owning Named after city of Minot, whose citizens donated nuclear monitoring. History: activated 1940. command: AFSPC. Units/missions: 50th SW $50,000 toward purchase of the land. Named for Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief (AFSPC), space operations; 310th SW (AFRC), of AEF’s Air Service in WWI and Chief of the space operations; Space Innovation and Develop- Misawa AB, Japan, APO AP 96319. Nearest Air Service/Air Corps, 1921 to 1927. ment Center (AFSPC), R&D. History: activated city: Misawa. Phone: 011-81-176-53-5181, ext. as Falcon AFS Sept. 26, 1985. Redesignated 226-3075. Owning command: PACAF. Unit/ Peterson AFB, Colo. 80914. Nearest city: AFB June 13, 1988. Renamed for Gen. Bernard mission: 35th FW (PACAF), fighter operations. Colorado Springs. Phone: 719-556-7321. A. Schriever June 5, 1998. History: occupied by US forces September 1945. Owning command: AFSPC. Units/missions: 21st SW (AFSPC), missile warning, space Scott AFB, Ill. 62225. Nearest city: Belleville. Moody AFB, Ga. 31699. Nearest city: Valdosta. operations, support; 200th AS (ANG), air Phone: 618-256-1110. Owning command: AMC. Phone: 229-257-1110. Owning command: mobility operations; 302nd AW (AFRC), air Units/missions: 126th ARW (ANG), air mobil- ACC. Units/missions: (ACC), fighter, mobility operations; Hq. AFSPC, manage- ity operations; 375th AMW (AMC), air mobility personnel recovery operations; 93rd Air Ground ment; Hq. NORAD, operational leadership; Hq. operations; 618th AOC (TACC) (AMC), planning/ Operations Wing (ACC), battlefield airmen op- NORTHCOM, operational leadership. History: directing worldwide air mobility operations; 932nd erations, support; 476th FG (AFRC), fighter activated 1942. Named for 1st Lt. Edward J. AW (AFRC), air mobility operations; Air Force operations; 820th Base Defense Group (ACC), Peterson, killed Aug. 8, 1942. Global Logistics Support Center (AFMC), supply expeditionary force protection. History: activated chain management; Air Force Network Integration June 1941. Named for Maj. George P. Moody, Pope Field, N.C. 28308. Nearest city: Fay­etteville. Center (AFSPC), network integration, engineer- killed May 5, 1941. Phone: 910-394-1110. Owning command: AMC. ing, and simulation; Hq. 18th Air Force (AMC), Units/missions: 18th ASOS (ACC), battlefield operational leadership; Hq. AMC, management; Mountain Home AFB, Idaho 83648. Nearest airmen operations; 21st STS (AFSOC), special Hq. TRANSCOM, operational leadership. History: city: Mountain Home. Phone: 208-828-1110. operations; 43rd AG (AMC), air mobility opera- activated June 14, 1917. Named for Cpl. Frank S. Owning command: ACC. Unit/mission: 366th tions; 440th AW (AFRC), air mobility operations; Scott, the first enlisted man to die in an aircraft FW (ACC), fighter operations, range manage- USAF Combat Control School (AFSOC), training. accident, killed Sept. 28, 1912. ment. History: activated August 1943 as History: activated 1919. Under BRAC 2005, Pope B-24 training base. Inactivated October 1945. AFB became Pope Field, part of , March Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. 27531. Nearest Reactivated December 1948. Inactivated April 1, 2011. Named for 1st Lt. Harley H. Pope, WWI city: Goldsboro. Phone: 919-722-1110. Own- 1950. Reactivated 1951. pilot, killed Jan. 7, 1919. ing command: ACC. Units/missions: 4th FW

AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 77 (ACC), fighter operations; 916th ARW (AFRC), Oklahoma City ALC (AFMC), weapons mainte- (AFSPC), space and launch range operations; air mobility operations. History: activated June nance, repair. History: activated March 1942. Hq. 14th Air Force (AFSPC), operational leader- 12, 1942. Named for Navy Lt. Seymour A. John- Named for Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker, who ship; Joint Space Operations Center (STRAT- son, Golds­boro native, killed March 5, 1941. went down at sea June 7, 1942, leading a group COM), C2 space operations. History: originally of LB-30 bombers against Japan. Army’s Camp Cooke. Activated October 1941. Shaw AFB, S.C. 29152. Nearest city: Sumter. Taken over by USAF June 7, 1957. Renamed Phone: 803-895-1110. Owning command: Travis AFB, Calif. 94535. Nearest city: Fairfield. for Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden­berg, USAF’s second ACC. Units/missions: 20th FW (ACC), fighter Phone: 707-424-1110. Owning command: Chief of Staff. operations; Hq. 9th Air Force (ACC), manage- AMC. Units/missions: 60th AMW (AMC), air ment (Hq. Air Forces Central in Southwest mobility operations; 349th AMW (AFRC), air Whiteman AFB, Mo. 65305. Nearest city: Asia, operational leadership); Hq. Third Army, mobility operations. History: activated May 17, Knob Noster. Phone: 660-687-1110. Owning management; US Army Central, operational 1943. Named for Brig. Gen. Robert F. Travis, command: AFGSC. Units/missions: 131st leadership. History: activated Aug. 30, 1941. killed Aug. 5, 1950. BW (ANG), bomber operations; 442nd FW Named for 1st Lt. Ervin D. Shaw, one of the (AFRC), fighter operations; 509th BW (AFGSC), first Americans to see air action in WWI, killed Tyndall AFB, Fla. 32403. Nearest city: Panama bomber operations. History: activated 1942. in France July 9, 1918. City. Phone: 850-283-1113. Owning command: Named for 2nd Lt. George A. Whiteman, first AETC. Units/missions: 53rd WEG (ACC), T&E; pilot to die in aerial combat during the attack Sheppard AFB, Tex. 76311. Nearest city: 101st AOG (ANG), support; 325th FW (AETC), on Pearl Harbor. Wichita Falls. Phone: 940-676-1110. Owning training; 325th FW Associate Unit (ANG), as- command: AETC. Units/missions: 82nd TRW sociate training; 601st AOC (ACC/ANG), plan/ Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433. Nearest (AETC), training; 80th FTW (Euro-NATO Joint direct air operations; Air Force Civil Engineer city: Dayton. Phone: 937-257-1110. Owning Jet Pilot Training program) (AETC), training. Support Agency (USAF), management; Air Force command: AFMC. Units/missions: 445th AW History: activated June 14, 1941. Named for US Rescue Coordination Center (ACC), plan/direct (AFRC), air mobility operations; Aeronautical Sen. Morris E. Sheppard, who died April 9, 1941. inland rescue operations; Hq. Continental US Systems Center (AFMC), acquisition and R&D; NORAD Region (NORAD)/1st AF/Air Forces Air Force Institute of Technology (AETC), edu- Spangdahlem AB, Germany, APO AE 09126. Northern (ACC/ANG), operational leadership. cation; Air Force Security Assistance Center Nearest city: Bitburg. Phone: 011-49-6565- History: activated Dec. 7, 1941. Named for (AFMC), foreign military sales; Hq. AFMC, 61-1110. Owning command: USAFE. Unit/ 1st Lt. Frank B. Tyndall, WWI fighter pilot killed management; Hq. Air Force Research Labo- mission: 52nd FW (USAFE), fighter operations. July 15, 1930. ratory (AFMC), R&D; National Air and Space History: built by French 1951 and turned over Intelligence Center (AFISRA), foreign aerospace to US 1952. Named after nearby town. US Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840. Nearest analysis; National Museum of the US Air Force city: Colorado Springs. Phone: 719-333-1110. (AFMC). History: originally separate, Wright Thule AB, Greenland, APO AE 09074. Nearest Owning command: USAF. Mission: education. Field and Pat­terson Field were merged and city: Qaanaaq. Phone: (through Cheyenne History: established April 1, 1954, at Lowry redesignated Wright-Patterson AFB Jan. 13, Mountain AFS operator) 719-474-1110. Own- AFB, Colo. Moved to permanent location in 1948. Named for aviation pioneers Orville and ing command: AFSPC. Units/missions: 12th Colorado Springs August 1958. Wilbur Wright and for 1st Lt. Frank S. Patterson, SWS (AFSPC), missile warning; 821st ABG killed June 19, 1918. (AFSPC), support. History: dates from 1946 as Vance AFB, Okla. 73705. Nearest city: Enid. a Danish-American radio and weather station. Phone: 580-213-5000. Owning command: Yokota AB, Japan, APO AP 96328. Nearest USAF Ballistic Missile Early Warning System AETC. Unit/mission: 71st FTW (AETC), train- city: Tokyo. Phone: 011-81-311-755-1110. radar began operations 1961. ing. History: activated November 1941. Named Owning command: PACAF. Units/missions: for Lt. Col. Leon R. Vance Jr., Enid native, 1939 374th AW (PACAF), air mobility, personnel re- Tinker AFB, Okla. 73145. Nearest city: Okla- West Point graduate, and MOH recipient, killed covery operations; Hq. 5th Air Force (PACAF), homa City. Phone: 405-732-7321. Owning July 26, 1944. operational leadership; Hq. US Forces Japan command: AFMC. Units/missions: 72nd ABW (PACOM), operational leadership. History: (AFMC), support; 137th ARW (ANG), air mobil- Vandenberg AFB, Calif. 93437. Nearest opened as Tama AAF by Japan 1939. Turned ity operations; 507th ARW (AFRC), air mobility city: Lompoc. Phone: 805-606-1110. Owning over to US forces and renamed Yokota AB operations; 552nd ACW (ACC), C2 operations; command: AFSPC. Units/missions: 30th SW Sept. 6, 1945. ANG and AFRC Installations

This section consolidates and Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 177th FW, Bradley Arpt., Conn. 06026. Nearest city: Air Force Reserve Command facilities, listing fighter operations. Hartford. Phone: 860-292-2526. Component: them by base names or according to the airport ANG. Unit/mission: 103rd AW, air mobility, C2, facilities they share. In addition, some ANG and Bangor Arpt., Maine 04401. Nearest city: CIRF operations. History: named for Lt. Eugene AFRC units are located on USAF bases and Bangor. Phone: 207-990-7700. Component: M. Brad­ley, killed in P-40 crash August 1941. are included under units on those bases in the ANG. Unit/mission: 101st ARW, air mobility “Active Duty Installations” section. operations.

Abraham Lincoln Capital Arpt., Ill. 62707. Nearest Barnes Arpt., Mass. 01085. Nearest city: Abbreviations city: Springfield. Phone: 217-757-1219. Com- Westfield.Phone: 413-568-9151. Component: (also see p. 99) ponent: ANG. Unit/mission: 183rd FW, CNAF, ANG. Unit/mission: 104th FW, fighter operations. CIRF operations; 217th EIS, mobile C4 operations. AES Squadron Birmingham Arpt., Ala. 35217. Nearest city: Bir- AGS Air Guard Station Allen C. Thompson Field/Jackson Arpt., Miss. mingham. Phone: 205-714-2000. Component: ANGB/S Air National Guard Base/Station ARB/S Air Reserve Base/Station 39232. Nearest city: Jackson. Phone: 601-936- ANG. Unit/mission: 117th ARW, air mobility, Arpt. Airport 8370. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 172nd intelligence operations. CBCS Combat Communications Squadron AW, air mobility operations, training. CCG Combat Communications Group Boise Air Terminal (Gowen Field), Idaho 83705. CIRF Centralized Intermediate Repair Facility Alpena County Regional Arpt., Mich. 49707. Nearest city: Boise. Phone: 208-422-5322. CNAF Component Nearest city: Alpena. Phone: 989-354-6210. Component: ANG. Units/missions: 124th FW, EIS Engineering Installation Squadron Component: ANG. Unit/mission: Combat air mobility, fighter operations; 127th ASOS, IOS/F Information Operations Squadron/ Readiness Training Center. battlefield airmen operations; 212th CACS, Flight IWS Information Warfare Squadron space C2 operations. History: named for Lt. JNGB Joint National Guard Base Atlantic City Arpt., N.J. 08234. Nearest city: Paul R. Gowen, killed in B-10 crash in Panama JRB Joint Reserve Base Egg Harbor Township. Phone: 609-645-6000. July 11, 1938.

78 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 Burlington Arpt., Vt. 05403. Nearest city: city: Fresno. Phone: 559-454-5100. Compo- Joe Foss Field, S.D. 57104. Nearest city: Sioux Burlington. Phone: 802-660-5215. Component: nent: ANG. Unit/mission: 144th FW, fighter, Falls. Phone: 605-988-5700. Component: ANG. ANG. Units/missions: 158th FW, fighter opera- ISR operations. Unit/mission: 114th FW, fighter operations. tions; 229th IOS, cyber operations. History: named for Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Foss, Greeley ANGS, Colo. 80631. Nearest city: WWII ace, former governor, former AFA national Channel Islands ANGS, Calif. 93041. Nearest Greeley. Phone: 720-259-5001. Component: president and board chairman, and founder of city: Oxnard. Phone: 805-986-8000. Compo- ANG. Unit/mission: 137th SWS, mobile mis- the ANG. nent: ANG. Unit/mission: 146th AW, air mobility sile warning. History: activated January 1996. operations. Key Field, Miss. 39307. Nearest city: Meridian. General Mitchell Arpt., Wis. 53207. Nearest Phone: 601-484-9000. Component: ANG. Units/ Charlotte/Douglas Arpt., N.C. 28208. Near- city: Milwaukee. Phone: 414-944-8410. Com- missions: 186th ARW, air mobility, ISR opera- est city: Charlotte. Phone: 704-391-4100. ponent: ANG. Unit/mission: 128th ARW, air tions, training; 238th ASOS, battlefield airmen Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 145th AW, mobility operations. History: named for Brig. operations. History: named after Fred and Al air mobility operations. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell. Key, air-to-air refueling pioneers and 1935 flight endurance record holders for 27 days aloft in Ole Cheyenne Arpt., Wyo. 82009. Nearest city: Greater Peoria Arpt., Ill. 61607. Nearest city: Miss, on permanent display at the National Air Cheyenne. Phone: 307-772-6110. Component: Peoria. Phone: 800-942-3771. Component: and Space Museum. ANG. Unit/mission: 153rd AW, air mobility ANG. Units/missions: 182nd AW, air mobility, operations. battlefield airmen, tactical airspace control op- Klamath Falls Arpt./Kingsley Field, Ore. 97603. erations; 264th CBCS, mobile communications. Nearest city: Klamath Falls. Phone: 800-864- Des Moines Arpt., Iowa 50321. Nearest city: 6264. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 173rd Des Moines. Phone: 800-257-1693. Compo- Great Falls Arpt., Mont. 59404. Nearest city: FW, training. History: named for 2nd Lt. David nent: ANG. Unit/mission: 132nd FW, fighter Great Falls. Phone: 406-791-0159. Component: R. Kingsley, MOH recipient, killed June 23, 1944, operations. ANG. Unit/mission: 120th FW, air mobility, on Ploesti, Romania, oil field bombing mission. fighter operations. Dobbins ARB, Ga. 30069. Nearest city: Atlanta. Lambert-St. Louis Arpt., Mo. 63044. Nearest Phone: 678-655-5000. Component: AFRC. Grissom ARB, Ind. 46971. Nearest city: Ko- city: St. Louis. Phone: 314-527-7000. Com- Units/missions: 94th AW, air mobility operations; komo. Phone: 765-688-5211. Component: ponent: ANG. Units/missions: 131st MSG, 94th AES, aeromedical evacuation; Hq. 22nd Air AFRC. Unit/mission: 434th ARW, air mobility support; 239th CBCS, mobile communications. Force, operational leadership. History: activated operations. History: activated January 1943 1943. Named for Capt. Charles Dobbins, pilot as NAS Bunker Hill. Reactivated June 1954 as Lincoln Arpt., Neb. 68524. Nearest city: Lincoln. killed in WWII. Bunker Hill AFB. Renamed May 1968 for Lt. Col. Phone: 402-458-1234. Component: ANG. Unit/ Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, killed Jan. 27, 1967, in mission: 155th ARW, air mobility operations. , Fla. 32542. Nearest city: Crestview. Apollo capsule fire. Realigned as AFRC base Phone: 850-883-6347. Component: AFRC. Unit/ Oct. 1, 1994. Louisville Arpt./AGS (Standiford Field), Ky. mission: 919th SOW, special operations. His- 40213. Nearest city: Louisville. Phone: 502- tory: named for Lt. Robert L. Duke, pilot killed Gulfport-Biloxi Arpt., Miss. 39507. Nearest city: 413-4400. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: Dec. 29, 1943, in test flight. Gulf­port. Phone: 228-214-6002. Component: 123rd AW, air mobility, battlefield airmen, bare ANG. Unit/mission: Trent Lott Combat Readi- base, C2 operations. Duluth Arpt., Minn. 55811. Nearest city: Duluth. ness Training Center. Phone: 218-788-7210. Component: ANG. Unit/ Luis Munoz Marin Arpt., 00979. mission: 148th FW, fighter operations. Hancock Field, N.Y. 13211. Nearest city: Nearest city: San Juan. Phone: 787-253-5101. Syracuse. Phone: 1-800-982-3696. Component: Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 156th AW, air Eastern West Arpt. (Shepherd Field), ANG. Units/missions: 152nd AOG, C2 opera- mobility operations. W. Va. 25401. Nearest city: Martins­burg. Phone: tions; 174th FW, ISR, RPA operations, training; 304-616-5100. Component: ANG. Unit/mis- 222nd CACS, space C2 operations; 274th ASOS, Mansfield Lahm Arpt., Ohio 44903. Nearest sion: 167th AW, air mobility operations. battlefield airmen operations. city: Mansfield. Phone: 419-520-6100. Com- ponent: ANG. Unit/mission: 179th AW, air Ellington Field, Tex. 77034. Nearest city: Hous- Harrisburg Arpt., Pa. 17057. Nearest city: mobility operations. History: named in 1948 ton. Phone: 281-929-2337. Component: ANG. Middletown. Phone: 717-948-2200. Compo- for nearby city and aviation pioneer Brig. Gen. Unit/mission: 147th RW, ISR, RPA operations. nent: ANG. Unit/mission: 193rd SOW, special Frank P. Lahm. History: named for Lt. Eric L. Ellington, pilot operations. killed November 1913. March ARB, Calif. 92518. Nearest city: River- Hector Arpt., N.D. 58102. Nearest city: Fargo. side. Phone: 951-655-1110. Components: ANG/ Forbes Field, Kan. 66619. Nearest city: Topeka. Phone: 701-451-2110. Component: ANG. Unit/ AFRC. Units/missions: 163rd RW (ANG), RPA Phone: 785-862-1234. Component: ANG. Unit/ mission: 119th Wing, air mobility, RPA operations. operations, training; 452nd AMW (AFRC), air mission: 190th ARW, air mobility operations. mobility operations; Hq. 4th Air Force (AFRC), History: named for Maj. Daniel H. Forbes Jr., Hensley Field AGS, Tex. 75211. Nearest city: operational leadership. History: activated March pilot killed June 5, 1948, test-flying Northrop Dallas. Phone: 972-619-4444. Component: 1, 1918. Named for 2nd Lt. Peyton C. March Jr., YB-49 “Flying Wing.” ANG. Unit/mission: 254th CCG, mobile com- who died of crash injuries Feb. 18, 1918. munications. Fort Smith Arpt., Ark. 72903. Nearest city: Martin State Arpt., Md. 21220. Nearest city: Fort Smith. Phone: 479-573-5100. Component: Homestead ARB, Fla. 33039. Nearest city: Baltimore. Phone: 410-918-6001. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 188th FW, fighter operations. Homestead. Phone: 786-415-7682. Compo- ANG. Unit/mission: 175th Wing, air mobility, nent: AFRC. Units/missions: 125th FW Det. 1 cyber, fighter operations. Fort Wayne Arpt., Ind. 46809. Nearest city: (ANG), fighter operations; 482nd FW (AFRC), Fort Wayne. Phone: 260-478-3210. Compo- fighter operations. McEntire JNGB, S.C. 29044. Nearest city: nent: ANG. Unit/mission: 122nd FW, fighter Columbia. Phone: 803-647-8300. Component: operations. Hulman Arpt., Ind. 47803. Nearest city: Terre ANG. Units/missions: 169th FW, fighter opera- Haute. Phone: 812-877-5311. Component: tions; 245th ACS, C2 air operations. History: Francis S. Gabreski Arpt., N.Y. 11978. Nearest ANG. Units/missions: 113th ASOS, battle- named for ANG Brig. Gen. B. B. McEntire Jr., city: West­hampton Beach. Phone: 631-723- field airmen operations; 181st IW, DCGS killed in F-104 accident 1961. 7400. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 106th operations. RQW, personnel recovery operations. History: McGhee Tyson Arpt., Tenn. 37777. Nearest named for Col. Francis S. Gabreski, WWII and Jacksonville Arpt., Fla. 32218. Nearest city: city: Knoxville. Phone: 865-336-3205. Com- ace. Jacksonville. Phone: 904-741-7100. Compo- ponent: ANG. Units/missions: 134th ARW, nent: ANG. Unit/mission: 125th FW, fighter, air mobility operations; 119th CACS, space C2 Fresno Yosemite Arpt., Calif. 93727. Nearest ISR operations. operations; 228th CBCS, mobile communications;

AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 79 Luis Munoz Marin Arpt. (ANG) Barnes Arpt. Barnes Arpt. (ANG) Md. Pease ANGS (ANG) Bangor Arpt. (ANG) Maine Westover ARB Westover (AFRC) Otis ANGB (ANG) ANGB Otis R.I. Quonset State Arpt. (ANG) N.H. Mass. Atlantic City Arpt. (ANG) Conn. New Castle Arpt. (ANG) Vt. Martin State Arpt. (ANG) Charlotte/Douglas Arpt. (ANG) N.J. Washington, D.C. Washington, McEntire JNGB (ANG) Homestead ARB (AFRC) Md. Del. Va. N.Y. Va. Pa. N.C. Arpt. (ANG) Burlington Arpt. (ANG) Bradley Arpt. (ANG) Stewart ANGB (ANG) Pittsburgh Arpt. (AFRC) Gabreski Arpt. (ANG) Savannah Hilton Head Arpt. (ANG) Harrisburg Arpt. (ANG) Schenectady County S.C. Eastern W. Va. Arpt. Va. Eastern W. (ANG) Fla. W. Va. W. Yeager Arpt. (ANG) Yeager Hancock Field (ANG) (ANG/AFRC) (AFRC) Ga. Ohio Rickenbacker ANGB McGhee Tyson Arpt. (ANG) McGhee Tyson Niagara Falls Arpt. Ky. Youngstown ARS Youngstown (ANG) Mich. Mansfield Lahm Arpt. (ANG) Hulman Arpt. (ANG) S-B Arpt. Fort Wayne Arpt. Fort Wayne (ANG) Birmingham Arpt. (ANG) Birmingham Arpt. Ala. Dobbins ARB (AFRC) Tenn. (ANG) Ind. Louisville Arpt. (ANG) Jacksonville Arpt. (ANG) Selfridge ANGB (ANG) Alpena County Arpt. (ANG) General Mitchell Arpt. (ANG) Memphis Arpt. (ANG) Montgomery Arpt. Duke Field (AFRC) Ill. Miss. Nashville Arpt. (ANG) Toledo Express Arpt. (ANG) Toledo (ANG) Grissom ARB (AFRC) Wis. Key Field (ANG) Key Field Abraham Lincoln Capital Arpt. (ANG) Fields (ANG) W. K. Kellogg Arpt. (ANG) Arpt. Kellogg K. W. La. Truax and Volk and Volk Truax Mo. Ark. Field (ANG) Arpt. (ANG) Iowa Fort Smith (ANG) Note: S-B Arpt. in Ohio is (ANG) Arpt. Springfield-Beckley NAS JRB New Orleans Gulfport-Biloxi Arpt. (ANG) (AFRC) Lambert-St. Louis Allen C. Thompson Greater Peoria Arpt. (ANG) Minn. Duluth Arpt. (ANG) Arpt. (ANG) Okla. (ANG) Minn.-St. Paul Arpt. Kan. Tulsa Arpt. (ANG) Arpt. Tulsa Des Moines Arpt. (ANG) Rosecrans Memorial Will Rogers World Arpt. Will Rogers World (ANG) N.D. S.D. Ellington Field (ANG) Forbes Field (ANG) Neb. Sioux Gateway Arpt. Tex. Lincoln Arpt. (ANG) Hector Arpt. (ANG) Hensley Field (ANG) Joe Foss Field (ANG) NAS JRB Fort Worth (AFRC/ANG) NAS JRB Fort Worth Greeley ANGS Colo. N.M. Wyo. Mont. Hawaii Cheyenne Arpt. (ANG) Air Reserve Component Bases Great Falls Arpt. (ANG) Oahu Utah Ariz. Boise Air Terminal Boise Air Terminal (ANG) Idaho (ANG) Nev. Sky Harbor Arpt. Salt Lake City Arpt. (ANG) Tucson Arpt. (ANG) Tucson Wash. Alaska Reno/Tahoe Arpt. (ANG) Reno/Tahoe Ore. Calif. (ANG) (ANG) Klamath Falls Arpt. (ANG) Portland Arpt. (ANG/AFRC) March ARB (ANG/AFRC) Moffett Field (ANG) Fresno Yosemite Arpt. Fresno Yosemite Channel Islands ANGS

80 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2012 I. G. Brown ANG Training and Education Center. phone: 412-776-8010. Components: ANG/ Sky Harbor Arpt., Ariz. 85034. Nearest city: History: named for Naval aviator Lt. j.g. Charles AFRC. Units/missions: 171st ARW (ANG), Phoenix. Phone: 602-302-9000. Component: McGhee Tyson, killed in WWI. air mobility operations; 911th AW (AFRC), air ANG. Unit/mission: 161st ARW, air mobility mobility operations. operations. Memphis Arpt., Tenn. 38118. Nearest city: Mem- phis. Phone: 901-291-7111. Component: ANG. Portland Arpt., Ore. 97218. Nearest city: Springfield-Beckley Arpt., Ohio 45502. Near- Unit/mission: 164th AW, air mobility operations. Portland. Phone: 503-335-4000. Components: est city: Springfield. Phone: 800-851-4503. ANG/AFRC. Units/missions: 125th STS (ANG), Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 178th FW, Minneapolis-St. Paul Arpt./ARS, Minn. 55450. battlefield airmen operations; 142nd FW (ANG), RPA operations. Nearest city: Minneapolis. Phone: 612-713- fighter operations; 304th RQS (AFRC), personnel 1110. Components: ANG/AFRC. Units/mis- recovery operations. Stewart ANGB, N.Y. 12550. Nearest city: sions: 133rd AW (ANG), air mobility operations; Newburgh. Phone: 845-563-2000. Component: 934th AW (AFRC), air mobility, cyber operations. Quonset State Arpt. (Quonset ANGB), R.I. ANG. Unit/mission: 105th AW, air mobility 02852. Nearest city: North Kingstown. Phone: operations; 213th EIS, mobile C4 operations. Moffett Field, Calif. 94035. Nearest city: Moun- 401-886-1200. Component: ANG. Units/mis- History: Stewart AFB until 1969. Acquired by tain View. Phone: 650-603-9129. Component: sions: 102nd IWS, cyber operations; 143rd state of New York 1970. ANG. Unit/mission: 129th RQW, personnel AW, air mobility operations; 281st CCG, mobile recovery operations. History: activated as NAS communications. Toledo Express Arpt., Ohio 43558. Near- Sunnyvale April 1933. Renamed Moffett Field est city: Swanton. Phone: 419-868-4250. June 1933 for Rear Adm. William A. Moffett, Reno/Tahoe Arpt. (May Field), Nev. 89502. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 180th FW, killed in crash of USS Akron airship April 4, 1933. Nearest city: Reno. Phone: 775-788-4500. fighter operations. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 152nd AW, Montgomery Regional Arpt., Ala. 36108. air mobility, DCGS operations. History: named Truax Field, Wis. 53704. Nearest city: Madi- Nearest city: Montgomery. Phone: 334-394- for Maj. Gen. James A. May, Nevada adjutant son. Phone: 800-438-3489. Component: 7200. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 187th general, 1947 to 1967. ANG. Unit/mission: 115th FW, fighter, ISR FW, fighter, ISR operations. History: originally operations. History: activated June 1942 as named for Ens. Clarence Dannelly, Navy pilot Rickenbacker ANGB, Ohio 43217. Nearest city: AAF base. Taken over by Wisconsin ANG April killed in WWII. Columbus. Phone: 614-492-3408. Component: 1968. Named for Lt. T. L. Truax, killed in P-40 ANG. Unit/mission: 121st ARW, air mobility training accident 1941. Nashville Arpt., Tenn. 37217. Nearest city: operations. History: activated 1942. Formerly Nashville. Phone: 615-660-8000. Component: Lock­bourne AFB. Renamed May 7, 1974, for Tucson Arpt., Ariz. 85706. Nearest city: Tucson. ANG. Unit/mission: 118th AW, air mobility Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker. Base transferred Phone: 520-295-6192. Component: ANG. Unit/ operations. from SAC to ANG April 1, 1980. mission: 162nd FW, fighter, ISR, RPA (at Davis- Monthan AFB) operations, training. NAS JRB Fort Worth, Tex. 76127. Nearest Rosecrans Memorial Arpt., Mo. 64503. Near- city: Fort Worth. Navy-hosted switchboard: est city: St. Joseph. Phone: 816-236-3300. Tulsa Arpt., Okla. 74115. Nearest city: Tulsa. 817-782-5000. ANG Phone: 817-852-3136. Component: ANG. Units/missions: 139th AW Phone: 918-833-7000. Component: ANG. Unit/ Components: ANG/AFRC. Units/missions: (ANG), air mobility operations; Advanced Airlift mission: 138th FW, fighter operations; 219th 136th AW (ANG), air mobility operations; 301st Tactics Training Center (ANG/AFRC/Active). EIS, mobile C4 operations. FW (AFRC), fighter operations; Hq. 10th Air Force (AFRC), operational leadership. Salt Lake City Arpt., Utah 84116. Nearest city: Volk Field ANGB, Wis. 54618. Nearest city: Salt Lake City. Phone: 801-245-2200. Compo- Madison. Phone: 608-427-1210. Component: NAS JRB New Orleans, La. 70143. Nearest nent: ANG. Units/missions: 151st ARW, air ANG. Units/missions: Combat Readiness city: New Orleans. Phone: 504-391-8600. Com- mobility operations; 101st IOF, cyber operations; Training Center; 128th ACS, C2 air opera- ponent: ANG. Units/missions: 159th FW, fighter 109th ACS, C2 air operations; 130th EIS, mobile tions. History: named for Lt. Jerome A. Volk, operations; 214th EIS, mobile C4 operations. C4 operations; 169th IS, ISR operations. first Wisconsin ANG pilot to be killed in the Korean War. New Castle County Arpt., Del. 19720. Near- Savannah Hilton Head Arpt., Ga. 31408. Near- est city: Wilmington. Phone: 302-323-3300. est city: Garden City. Phone: 912-966-8223. Westover ARB, Mass. 01022. Nearest city: Component: ANG. Unit/mission: 166th AW, Component: ANG. Units/missions: 165th AW, Chicopee. Phone: 413-557-1110. Component: air mobility, cyber operations. air mobility, battlefield airmen operations; Combat AFRC. Unit/mission: 439th AW, air mobility Readiness Training Center. operations. History: dedicated April 6, 1940. Niagara Falls Arpt./ARS, N.Y. 14304. Nearest Named for Maj. Gen. , Chief of city: Niagara Falls. Phone: 716-236-2000. Com- Schenectady County Arpt. (Stratton ANGB), the Air Corps, killed Sept. 21, 1938. ponents: ANG/AFRC. Units/missions: 107th N.Y. 12302. Nearest city: Scotia. Phone: 518- AW (ANG), reserve associate air mobility opera- 344-2300. Component: ANG. Unit/mission: W. K. Kellogg Arpt., Mich. 49015. Nearest city: tions; 914th AW (AFRC), air mobility operations. 109th AW, air mobility operations. Battle Creek. Phone: 269-969-3234. Compo- nent: ANG. Units/missions: 110th AOG, C2 Otis ANGB, Mass. 02542. Nearest city: Fal- Selfridge ANGB, Mich. 48045. Nearest city: air operations; 110th AW, air mobility operations. mouth. Phone: 508-968-4003. Component: Mount Clemens. Phone: 586-239-5576. Com- ANG. Units/missions: 102nd IW, DCGS opera- ponent: ANG. Unit/mission: 127th Wing, air Will Rogers World Arpt., Okla. 73179. Nearest tions and C2 air operations; 253rd CCG, mobile mobility, fighter, special operations weather city: Oklahoma City. Phone: 405-686-5227. communications. History: named for 1st Lt. Frank operations. History: activated July 1917. Trans- Component: ANG. Units/missions: 137th ARW, J. Otis, ARNG flight surgeon and ferred to Michigan ANG July 1971. Named for 1st reserve associate air mobility operations; 146th pilot killed in 1937 crash. Lt. Thom­as E. Selfridge, killed Sept. 17, 1908, at ASOS, battlefield airmen operations; 205th EIS, Fort Myer, Va., when airplane piloted by Orville mobile C4 operations. Pease Intl. Tradeport ANGS, N.H. 03803. Near- Wright crashed. est city: Portsmouth. Phone: 603-430-3577. Yeager Arpt., W.Va. 25311. Nearest city: Component: ANG. Units/missions: 157th ARW Sioux Gateway Arpt./Col. Bud Day Field, Charleston. Phone: 304-341-6249. Component: (ANG), air mobility operations; 64th ARS (AMC), Iowa 51111. Nearest city: Sioux City. Phone: ANG. Units/missions: 130th AW, air mobility, active associate air mobility operations. History: 712-233-0200. Component: ANG. Unit/mis- ISR operations; 167th AES, aeromedical evacu- site of former Portsmouth AFB, activated June sion: 185th ARW, air mobility operations. ation. History: named for Brig. Gen. Charles E. 1956. Renamed Sept. 7, 1957, for Capt. Harl History: activated as Sioux City AAB in July “Chuck” Yeager. Pease Jr., MOH recipient, B-17 pilot killed in 1942. Closed in December 1945. Reopened in WWII. Base closed March 31, 1991. September 1946 as Sioux City ARB. Returned to Youngstown ARS, Ohio 44473. Nearest city: joint civil-military use. Named in 2002 for retired Youngstown. Phone: 330-609-1000. Compo- Pittsburgh Arpt./ARS, Pa. 15108. Nearest city: Col. George E. “Bud” Day, a War POW nent: AFRC. Unit/mission: 910th AW, air Coraopolis. AFRC phone: 412-474-8511. ANG and MOH recipient. mobility operations.

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