Usaf & Ussf Installations
2020 ALMANAC USAF & USSF INSTALLATIONS Tech. Sgt. Joe Harwood Tech. C-130s at Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base, Mansfield, Ohio. Domestic Installations Owning command: AETC. Unit/mission: missile warning. History: Dates from 1961. 42nd ABW (AETC), support; 908th AW Bases owned, operated by, or hosting substantial (AFRC), air mobility operations; Air Force Eielson AFB, Alaska 99702. Nearest city: Department of the Air Force activities. Bases marked Historical Research Agency (USAF), histori- Fairbanks. Phone: 907-377-1110. Acres: 24,919. “USSF” were part of the former Air Force Space com- cal documentation, research; Air University Total Force: 3,257. Active-duty Air Force: 1,993. mand and may not ultimately transfer to the Space (AETC); Hq. Civil Air Patrol (USAF), manage- Owning command: PACAF. Unit/mission: 168th Force. For sources and definitions, see p. 109. ment; Hq. Air Force Judge Advocate General ARW (ANG), air mobility operations; 354th FW Active Reserve Guard Range USSF States Corps (USAF), management; PEO-Business (PACAF), aggressor force, fighter, Red Flag- and Enterprise Systems (AFMC), acquisi- Alaska operations, Joint Pacific Alaska Range UNITEDUnited STATES States tion. History: Activated 1918 at the site of Complex support; Arctic Survival School (AETC), the Wright brothers’ flight school. Named training. History: Activated October 1944. Named AlabamaALABAMA for 2nd Lt. William C. Maxwell, killed in air for Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic aviation pioneer who accident Aug. 12, 1920. Museum: Air Park. died in Arctic rescue mission in November 1929. Dannelly Field, Montgomery Regional Inn: 334-953-3931. (Maxwell); 334-416-2501 Museum: Heritage Park. Inn: 907-377-1844. Airport, Ala.
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