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INSTALLATIONS WORLDWIDE Photo: A1C Michael Mathews A1C Michael Photo 2019 USAF ALMANAC INSTALLATIONS WORLDWIDE Photo: A1C Michael Mathews A1C Michael Photo: A C-17 at Buckley AFB, Colo. Active Duty Installations Development Complex (AFTC/AFMC), flight, California, as well as a senior appointee/diplomat space, and missile ground testing. History: for four presidents. Transferred to USAF 1948. This section includes Air Force-owned and dedicated June 25, 1951. Named for General of Designated AFB April 1951. -operated facilities around the world, as well the Air Force Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. as joint bases with substantial USAF presence Buckley AFB, Colo. 80011. Nearest city: Den- The section does not list all units or agencies Aviano AB, Italy APO AE 09604. Nearest city: ver. Phone: 720-847-9431. Owning command: at each base. Aviano. Phone: 011-39-0434-30-1110. Owning AFSPC. Unit/mission: 140th Wing (ANG), air command: USAFE. Unit/mission: 31st FW (US- mobility, fighter operations, mobile missile Altus AFB, Okla. 73523. Nearest city: Altus. AFE), fighter operations; 724th AMS (AMC), air warning; 460th SW (AFSPC), space surveillance, Phone: 580-482-8100. Owning command: transportation services. History: dates from 1911 missile warning; 566th IS (ACC), intelligence; Air AETC. Unit/mission: 97th AMW (AETC), train- as Italian air base. USAF began operations 1954. Reserve Personnel Center, Guard and Reserve ing. History: activated January 1943. Inactivated personnel support. History: activated April 1, May 1945. Reactivated August 1953. Barksdale AFB, La. 71110. Nearest city: Bossier 1942, as gunnery training facility. ANG assumed City. Phone: 318-456-1110. Owning command: control from Navy 1959. Became Active Duty Andersen AFB, Guam APO AP 96543. Nearest AFGSC. Unit/mission: 2nd BW (AFGSC), bomb- Air Force facility Oct. 1, 2000. Named for 1st Lt. city: Yigo. Phone: 671-366-1110. Owning com- er operations; 307th BW (AFRC), bomber opera- John H. Buckley, WWI flier, killed Sept. 17, 1918. mand: PACAF. Unit/mission: 9th Operations tions, training; Hq. AFGSC, management; Hq. Group Det. 3 (ACC), RPA operations; 22nd SOPS 8th Air Force (AFGSC), operational leadership. Cannon AFB, N.M. 88103. Nearest city: Clo- Det. 5 (AFSPC), space operations; 36th Wing History: activated Feb. 2, 1933. Named for Lt. vis. Phone: 575-784-4131. Owning command: (PACAF), support; 36th CRG (PACAF), bare Eugene H. Barksdale, WWI airman killed in AFSOC. Unit/mission: 27th SOW (AFSOC), base operations; 44th APS (AFRC), aerial port August 1926 crash. special operations. History: activated August operations; 254th ABG (ANG), support, bare base 1942. Named for Gen. John K. Cannon, WWII operations (254th RED HORSE); 724th ASTF Beale AFB, Calif. 95903. Nearest city: Marys- commander of all Allied air forces in the Mediter- (AFRC); 734th AMS (AMC), air transportation ville. Phone: 530-634-3000. Owning command: ranean Theater and former commander, Tactical services. History: activated 1945 as North Field. ACC. Unit/mission: 7th SWS (AFSPC), missile Air Command. Renamed 1949 for Brig. Gen. James R. Andersen, warning; 9th RW (ACC), ISR, RPA operations; lost at sea Feb. 26, 1945. Became part of Joint 195th Wing (ANG), DCGS, intel; 548th ISRG Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. 32925. Nearest city: Region Marianas 2009. (ACC), DCGS; 940th Air Refueling Wing (AFRC), Cocoa Beach. Phone: 321-494-5933. Owning KC-135R. History: opened October 1942 as command: AFSPC. Unit/mission: 45th Space Arnold AFB, Tenn. 37389. Nearest city: Man- Army’s Camp Beale. Named for Edward F. Beale, Wing (AFSPC), space launch operations. His- chester. Phone: 931-454-3000. Owning com- a former Navy officer who became a hero of the tory: formerly NAS Banana River. Site of Joint mand: AFMC. Unit/mission: Arnold Engineering Mexican-American War and early developer of Long Range Proving Ground 1949. USAF took JUNE 2019 AIRFORCEMAG.COM 83 MAJOR ACTIVE, GUARD, AND RESERVE AIR FORCE BASES IN THE US Active Reserve Guard JB Lewis-McChord Cavalier AFS (AFSPC) Fairchild AFB (AMC) Minot AFB (AFGSC) Malmstrom AFB (AFGSC) Wash. Great Falls Arpt. (ANG) Bangor Arpt. (ANG) Grand Forks AFB (AMC) Portland Arpt. (ANG/AFRC) N.D. Maine Duluth Arpt. (ANG) Mont. Hector Airport (ANG) Burlington Intl. Arpt. (ANG) Mich. Ore. Vt. Alpena County Regional Arpt. (ANG) Pease Intl. ANGB (ANG) Idaho Minn. N.H. Kingsley Field/Crater Lake- Otis ANGB (ANG) Klamath Arpt. (ANG) Minn.-St. Paul Arpt. (AFRC) Hancock Field (ANG) Hanscom AFB (AMC) S.D. Mountain Home AFB (ACC) Mass. Westover ARS (AFRC) Wyo. Wis. Niagara Falls Arpt. ARB (ANG/AFRC) Boise Air Terminal (ANG) N.Y. Ellsworth AFB (AFGSC) Schenectady County Arpt. (ANG) Westfield-Barnes Arpt. (ANG) General Mitchell Arpt. (ANG) Mich. Selfridge ANGB (ANG) R.I. Quonset State Arpt. (ANG) Joe Foss Field (ANG) Truax Field ANGB Stewart ANGB (ANG) Conn. Battle Creek ANGB/W. K. Bradley ANGB (ANG) Sioux Gateway Arpt. (ANG) Kellogg Arpt. (ANG) Youngstown ARS (AFRC) Gabreski Arpt. (ANG) Pa. Salt Lake City Arpt.- Toledo Express Arpt. (ANG) Atlantic City Arpt. (ANG) Beale AFB (ACC) Wright ANGB Iowa Fort Wayne Arpt. (ANG) Mansfield Lahm ANGB/Arpt. Harrisburg Arpt. (ANG) F.E. Warren AFB (AFGSC) JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst AFB (AMC) Neb. Des Moines Arpt. (ANG) Grissom ARB (AFRC) N.J. Reno/Tahoe Arpt. (ANG) Hill AFB (AFMC) Springfield-Beckley Arpt. (ANG) New Castle Arpt. (ANG) Fresno Yosemite Arpt. (ANG)(ANG) Offutt AFB (ACC) Peoria Intl. Arpt. (ANG) Pittsburgh Intl. Arpt. (ANG/AFRC) Nev. Greely ANGS Wright-Patterson AFB (AFMC) Dover AFB (AMC) Lincoln Arpt. (ANG) Md. Del. Travis AFB (AMC) Utah Ind. Rickenbacker ANGB JB Anacostia-Bolling Schriever AFB (AFSPC) Rosecrans ANGB/Memorial Arpt. Ill. Warfield ANGB/Martin State Arpt. (ANG) Moffett Federal Airfield Buckley AFB (AFSPC) Hulman Field Arpt. (ANG) Eastern W. Va. Arpt. (ANG) JB Andrews (AFDW) Calif. Abraham Lincoln Capital USAF Academy Arpt. (ANG) W. Va. Hq. USAF Kan. Va. Peterson AFB (AFSPC) Whiteman AFB (AFGSC) Scott AFB (AMC) Yeager/McLaughlin ANGB Mo. JB Langley-Eustis (ACC) Creech AFB (ACC) Cheyenne Mtn. AFB (AFSPC) Forbes Field (ANG) Jefferson Barracks (ANG) Louisville Arpt. ANGB Colo. Ky. Vandenberg AFB (AFSPC) McConnell AFB (AMC) Nellis AFB (ACC) McGhee-Tyson ANGB Channel Islands ANGS (ANG) Tulsa Arpt. /ANGB Berry Field ANGB/ N.C. Seymour Johnson AFB (ACC) Vance AFB (AETC) Nashville Intl. Arpt. (ANG) Tenn. Ariz. Kirtland AFB (AFGSC) Pope Field Edwards AFB (AFMC) Charlotte ANGB at Will Rogers ANGB (ANG) Goldwater ANGB (ANG) Little Rock AFB (AMC) Arnold AFB (AFMC) Charlotte Douglas Arpt. N.M. Tinker AFB (AFMC) Los Angeles AFB (AFSPC) Okla. Memphis Arpt. (ANG) Dobbins ARB (AFRC) Shaw AFB (ACC) Luke AFB (AETC) Altus AFB (AETC) Fort Smith (ANG) McEntire JNGB (ANG) Cannon AFB (AFSOC) Ark. S.C. March ARB (ANG/AFRC) Ala. Columbus AFB (AETC) Ga. Sheppard AFB (AETC) Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Arpt. (ANG) JB Charleston (AMC) Davis-Monthan AFB (ACC) Allen C. Thompson-FIeld Robins AFB (AFMC) Holloman AFB (ACC) Dyess AFB (AFGSC) Jackson Evers Arpt. (ANG) Hensley Field (ANG) Maxwell AFB (AETC) Tucson Arpt. (ANG) Savannah/Hilton Head Arpt./ANGB Key Field ANGB/ Montgomery Regional NAS JRB Fort Worth Meridian Arpt. Arpt./Dannelly Field (ANG) (AFRC/ANG) Barksdale AFB (AFGSC) Miss. Moody AFB (ACC) Gulfport-Billoxi Arpt. (ANG) Texas La. Duke Field (AFRC) Jacksonville Arpt. (ANG) Goodfellow AFB (AETC) NAS JRB New Orleans (ANG) Laughlin AFB (AETC) Ellington Field (ANG) Keesler AFB (AETC) Fla. Hurlburt Field (AFSOC) JBSA-Randolph (AETC) MacDill AFB (AMC) Patrick AFB (AAFSPC) EglinElgin AFB (AFMC) JBSA-Lackland (AETC) Tyndall AFB (ACC) Homestead ARB (AFRC) Eielson AFB (PACAF) JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam (PACAF) Clear AFB (AFSPC) Luis Muñoz Marin Arpt./Muñoz ANGB Alaska Oahu JB Elmendorf-Richardson (PACAF) Puerto Rico Hawaii 84 JUNE 2019 AIRFORCEMAG.COM JUNE 2019 AIRFORCEMAG.COM 85 sole control 1950. Combined with NASA to form activated December 1941. Inactivated 1946. AcronymsAcronyms John F. Kennedy Space Center 1973. Designated Reactivated February 1951. and Abbreviations Cape Canaveral AS in 1974. and Abbreviations Dyess AFB, Texas 79607. Nearest city: Abilene. AAB Army Air Base Cape Cod AFS, Mass. 02561. Nearest city: Phone: 325-696-2863. Owning command: AAF Army Airfield Sandwich. Phone: 508-968-3277. Owning com- AFGSC. Unit/mission: 7th BW (AFGSC), bomber AB Air Base mand: AFSPC. Unit/mission: 6th SWS (AFSPC), operations; 317th AW (AMC), air mobility opera- ABG Air Base Group missile warning. History: established April 4, tions. History: Abilene AAB opened Dec. 18, ABW Air Base Wing 1980, as Cape Cod Missile Early Warning Sta- 1942. Inactivated Jan. 31, 1946. Reopened and ACC Air Combat Command tion. Renamed Jan. 5, 1982. renamed Dec. 1, 1956, for Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, ACG Air Control Group WWII pilot who escaped from a Japanese prison ACS Air Control Squadron Cavalier AFS, N.D. 58220. Nearest city: Cava- camp, killed in P-38 crash in December 1943. ACTS Air Combat Training Squadron lier. Phone: 701-993-3292. Owning command: ACW Air Control Wing AFSPC. Unit/mission: 10th SWS (AFSPC), Edwards AFB, Calif. 93524. Nearest city: Rosa- AETC Air Education and Training Command missile warning. History: established 1975 as mond. Phone: 661-277-1110. Owning command: AFB Air Force Base Army’s Mickelsen Complex, an anti-ballistic mis- AFMC. Unit/mission: 412th TW (AFMC), T&E, AFDW Air Force District of Washington sile facility. All but perimeter acquisition radar base support; Hq. Air Force Test Center (AFMC), AFGSC Air Force Global Strike Command inactivated 1976. USAF took radar operational T&E management; US Air Force Test Pilot School AFMC Air Force Materiel Command control 1977 and site control 2007. (AFMC), training. History: Muroc Bombing and AFNWC Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Gunnery Range established September 1933. AFRC Air Force Reserve Command Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Colo. 80914. Nearest Designated Muroc AAB 1942. Renamed in 1949 AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory city: Colorado Springs. Phone: N/A. Owning for Capt. Glen W. Edwards, killed June 5, 1948, AFS Air Force Station command: AFSPC.
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