Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide ■ 2014 USAF Almanac Active Duty Installations This section includes Air Force-owned and -oper- operations; Hq. AFGSC, management; Hq. 8th F. Kennedy Space Center 1973. Designated ated facilities around the world. (It also lists the Air Force (AFGSC), operational leadership; Cape Canaveral AS 1974. former USAF bases now under other service Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum (AFGSC). leadership as joint bases.) The section does History: activated Feb. 2, 1933. Named for Cape Cod AFS, Mass. 02561. Nearest city: not list all units or agencies at each base. Many Lt. Eugene H. Barksdale, WWI airman killed in Sandwich. Phone: 508-968-3283. Owning USAF installations also host numerous tenants, August 1926 crash. command: AFSPC. Unit/mission: 6th SWS including other USAF major command units and (AFSPC), missile warning. History: established civil, DOD, federal, and other service entities. Beale AFB, Calif. 95903. Nearest city: Marys- April 4, 1980, as Cape Cod Missile Early Warn- ville. Phone: 530-634-3000. Owning command: ing Station. Renamed Jan. 5, 1982. Altus AFB, Okla. 73523. Nearest city: Altus. ACC. Units/missions: 7th SWS (AFSPC), Phone: 580-482-8100. Owning command: missile warning; 9th RW (ACC), ISR, RPA op- Cavalier AFS, N.D. 58220. Nearest city: Cava- AETC. Unit/mission: 97th AMW (AETC), train- erations; 548th ISRG (AFISRA), DCGS; 940th lier. Phone: n/a. Owning command: AFSPC. ing. History: activated January 1943. Inactivated Wing (AFRC), C2, ISR, RPA operations. History: Unit/mission: 10th SWS (AFSPC), missile May 1945. Reactivated August 1953. opened October 1942 as Army’s Camp Beale. warning. History: established 1975 as Army’s Named for Edward F. Beale, a former Navy officer Mickelsen Complex, a Safeguard anti-ballistic Andersen AFB, Guam, APO AP 96543. Nearest who became a hero of the Mexican-American missile facility. All but perimeter acquisition radar city: Yigo. Phone: 671-366-1110. Owning com- War and early developer of California, as well inactivated 1976. USAF took radar operational mand: PACAF. Units/missions: 9th Operations as a senior appointee/diplomat for four Presi- control 1977 and site control 2007. Group Det. 3 (ACC), RPA operations; 22nd SOPS dents. Transferred to USAF 1948. Designated Det. 5 (AFSPC), space operations; 36th Wing AFB April 1951. Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Colo. 80914. Nearest (PACAF), support; 36th CRG (PACAF), bare city: Colorado Springs. Phone: 719-474-1110. base operations; 44th APS (AFRC), aerial port Buckley AFB, Colo. 80011. Nearest city: Den- Owning command: AFSPC. Units/missions: operations; 254th ABG (ANG), support, bare ver. Phone: 720-847-9011. Owning command: 721st MSG (AFSPC), support; NORAD/NORTH- base operations (254th RED HORSE); 724th AFSPC. Units/missions: 140th Wing (ANG), COM Alternate Command Center, Integrated Tac- ASTF (AFRC); 734th AMS (AMC), air transporta- air mobility, fighter operations, mobile missile tical Warning and Attack Assessment operations, tion services. History: activated 1945 as North warning; 460th SW (AFSPC), space surveil- training. History: operational April 20, 1966. Field. Renamed 1949 for Brig. Gen. James R. lance, missile warning; 566th IS (AFISRA), Andersen, lost at sea Feb. 26, 1945. Became intelligence; Air Reserve Personnel Center, Clear AFS, Alaska, APO AP 99704. Nearest part of Joint Region Marianas 2009. Guard and Reserve personnel support. History: city: Fairbanks. Phone: n/a. Owning command: activated April 1, 1942, as gunnery training AFSPC. Units/missions: 13th SWS (AFSPC), Arnold AFB, Tenn. 37389. Nearest city: Man- facility. ANG assumed control from Navy 1959. 213th SWS (ANG)—missile warning. History: chester. Phone: 931-454-3000. Owning com- Became Active Duty Air Force facility Oct. 1, dates from 1961. mand: AFMC. Unit/mission: Arnold Engineering 2000. Named for 1st Lt. John H. Buckley, WWI Development Complex (AFMC), flight-represen- flier, killed Sept. 17, 1918. Columbus AFB, Miss. 39710. Nearest city: tative ground test. History: dedicated June 25, Columbus. Phone: 662-434-1110. Owning 1951. Named for Gen. of the Air Force Henry Cannon AFB, N.M. 88103. Nearest city: Clovis. command: AETC. Unit/mission: 14th FTW H. “Hap” Arnold. Phone: 575-784-1110. Owning command: (AETC), training. History: activated 1942 for AFSOC. Unit/mission: 27th SOW (AFSOC), pilot training. Aviano AB, Italy, APO AE 09604. Nearest city: special operations. History: activated August Aviano. Phone: 011-39-0434-30-1110. Owning 1942. Named for Gen. John K. Cannon, WWII Creech AFB, Nev. 89191. Nearest city: Indian command: USAFE-AFAFRICA. Units/missions: commander of all Allied air forces in the Mediter- Springs. Phone: 702-652-1110. Owning com- 31st FW (USAFE-AFAFRICA), fighter operations; ranean Theater and former commander, Tactical mand: ACC. Units/missions: 78th ATKS, 91st 724th AMS (AMC), air transportation services. Air Command. ATKS (AFRC), 232nd Operations Sq. (ANG), History: dates from 1911 as Italian air base. 432nd Wing (ACC)—RPA operations; 799th ABG USAF began operations 1954. Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. 32925. Nearest city: (ACC), support, ground combat training; Joint Cocoa Beach. Phone: 321-853-1110. Owning Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excel- Barksdale AFB, La. 71110. Nearest city: Bossier command: AFSPC. Unit/mission: 5th SLS lence. History: activated 1942 as Army camp, City. Phone: 318-456-1110. Owning command: (AFSPC), space launch operations. History: air-to-air gunnery training. In 1951 became a AFGSC. Units/missions: 2nd BW (AFGSC), formerly NAS Banana River. Site of Joint Long USAF auxiliary field. In 1980s, officially named bomber operations; 307th BW (AFRC), bomber Range Proving Ground 1949. USAF took sole Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field. In 2005, operations, training; 917th FG (AFRC), fighter control 1950. Combined with NASA to form John renamed Creech AFB for Gen. Wilbur L. “Bill” 58 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2014 Creech, commander, Tactical Air Command, command: AFMC. Units/missions: 20th SPCS Acronyms and Abbreviations 1978 to 1984. (AFSPC), space surveillance; 33rd FW (AETC), training; 53rd Wing (ACC), T&E; 96th TW (AFMC), AB Air Base Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. 85707. Nearest city: T&E, base support; Air Force Armament Museum ABG Air Base Group ABW Air Base Wing Tucson. Phone: 520-228-3900. Owning com- (AFMC); Munitions Directorate (AFMC), R&D; Guide to Air Force ACC Air Combat Command mand: ACC. Units/missions: 55th ECG (ACC), PEO-Armament (AFMC), acquisition. History: ACS Air Control Squadron electronic combat operations; 214th RG (ANG), activated 1935. Named for Lt. Col. Frederick I. ACTS Air Combat Training Squadron RPA operations; 309th Aerospace Maintenance Eglin, WWI flier killed in aircraft accident Jan. ACW Air Control Wing & Regeneration Group (AFMC), aerospace 1, 1937. AETC Air Education & Training Command vehicle storage, regeneration; 355th FW (ACC), AFB Air Force Base fighter operations; 563rd RQG (ACC), 943rd RQG Eielson AFB, Alaska 99702. Nearest city: AFDW Air Force District of Washington (AFRC)—personnel recovery operations; Hq. 12th Fairbanks. Phone: 907-377-1110. Owning com- AFGSC Air Force Global Strike Command AFISRA Air Force ISR Agency Air Force (ACC), operational leadership. History: mand: PACAF. Units/missions: 168th ARW AFLCMC Air Force Life Cycle Management activated 1927. Named for two local aviators: 2nd (ANG), air mobility operations; 354th FW (PAC- Center Lt. Samuel H. Davis, killed Dec. 28, 1921, and AF), aggressor force, fighter, Red Flag-Alaska AFMC Air Force Materiel Command Worldwide 2nd Lt. Oscar Monthan, killed March 27, 1924. operations, Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex AFNWC Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center support; Arctic Survival School (AETC), training. AFOSI Air Force Office of Special Dover AFB, Del. 19902. Nearest city: Dover. History: activated October 1944. Named for Carl Investigations Phone: 302-677-3000. Owning command: Ben Eielson, Arctic aviation pioneer who died in AFRC Air Force Reserve Command AMC. Units/missions: 436th AW (AMC), 512th Arctic rescue mission November 1929. AFRICOM US Africa Command AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory AW (AFRC)—air mobility operations; Air Force AFS Air Force Station Mortuary Affairs Operations (USAF). History: Ellsworth AFB, S.D. 57706. Nearest city: Rapid AFSC Air Force Sustainment Center activated December 1941. Inactivated 1946. City. Phone: 605-385-5056. Owning command: AFSOC Air Force Special Operations Reactivated February 1951. ACC. Units/missions: 28th BW (ACC), bomber Command operations; Air Force Financial Services Center AFSPC Air Force Space Command Dyess AFB, Tex. 79607. Nearest city: Abilene. (USAF). History: activated January 1942 as AFTC Air Force Test Center Phone: 325-696-1110. Owning command: Rapid City Army Air Base. Renamed June 13, AFWA Air Force Weather Agency ACC. Units/missions: 7th BW (ACC), bomber 1953, for Brig. Gen. Richard E. Ellsworth, killed AG Airlift Group AGOW Air Ground Operations Wing operations; 317th AG (AMC), air mobility opera- March 18, 1953, in RB-36 crash. AGS Air Guard Station tions. History: activated April 1942. Deactivated ALC Air Logistics Complex December 1945. Reactivated as Abilene AFB Fairchild AFB, Wash. 99011. Nearest city: AMC Air Mobility Command September 1955. Renamed December 1956 Spokane. Phone: 509-247-1212. Owning com- AMOG Air Mobility Operations Group for Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, WWII pilot who mand: AMC. Units/missions: 92nd ARW (AMC), AMOW Air Mobility Operations Wing escaped from a Japanese prison camp; killed 141st