USAFAlmanac ■ Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide Major Installations Note: A major installation is an Air Force Base, Air Andrews AFB, Md. 20762-5000; 10 mi. SE of port Sq., Araxos AB, Greece; Det. 1, Expeditionary Base, Air Reserve Base, or Air Guard Base that Washington. Phone (301) 981-1110; DSN 858-1110. Air Control Sq., Jacotenente, Italy. One of the old- serves as a self-supporting center for Air Force AMC base. Host: 89th Airlift Wing. Responsible for est Italian air bases, dating to 1911. USAF began combat, combat support, or training operations. Presidential support and base operations; supports operations 1954. Area 1,467 acres. Runway 8,596 Active duty, Air National Guard (ANG), or Air Force all branches of the armed services, several major ft. Altitude 413 ft. Military 3,367; civilians 1,102. Reserve Command (AFRC) units of wing size or commands, and federal agencies. Tenants: Det. Payroll $158.9 million. Housing: 619 govt.-leased larger operate the installation with all land, facili- 302, AFOSI; Air Force Flight Standards Agency; units, 34 billeting spaces, 552-bed dorm. No ties, and support needed to accomplish the unit AFOSI Academy; Air National Guard Readiness TLF, 20 VOQ, 14 VAQ. Clinic with 24-hour acute- mission. There must be real property accountability Center; 113th Wing (D.C. ANG); 459th Airlift Wing care clinic. American medical services at Sacile through ownership of all real estate and facilities. (AFRC); Naval Air Facility; Marine Aircraft Gp. 49, Hospital (20 minutes from base) with OB/GYN, Agreements with foreign governments that give Det. A; Air Force Review Boards Agency. Gateway general surgery, and orthopedics; two inpatient the Air Force jurisdiction over real property meet to the nation’s capital and home of Air Force One. units; 20–22-bed hospital. this requirement. Shared-use agreements (as Base activated May 1943. Named for Lt. Gen. Frank opposed to joint-use agreements where the Air M. Andrews, military air pioneer and WWII com- Barksdale AFB, La. 71110-5000; in Bossier City. Force owns the runway) do not meet the major mander of the European theater, killed in aircraft Phone (318) 456-1110; DSN 781-1110. ACC base. installation criteria. accident May 3, 1943, in Iceland. Area 7,550 acres Host: 2d Bomb Wing, B-52H operations. Tenants: 8th (including easements). Runways 9,300 ft. and 9,755 Air Force (ACC); 49th Test Sq. (ACC); 917th Wing Altus AFB, Okla. 73523-5000; within Altus city ft. Altitude 281 ft. Military 12,214; civilians 1,425. (AFRC), B-52H and A-10 operations; Det. 5, 57th limits. Phone (405) 482-8100; DSN 866-1110. Payroll $318 million. Housing: 325 officer, 1,753 Wing (ACC); Naval Mobile Construction Battalion AETC base. Host: 97th Air Mobility Wing, C-5, KC- enlisted, 414 off-base units, 974 UEQ, 68 TLF, 21 28 Seabees (Navy Reserve); Det. 1, 307th RED 135, C-141, and C-17 aircraft. Operates AETC’s DV suites, 180 VOQ, 56 VAQ. 185-bed hospital. HORSE Sq. (AFRC); 8th Air Force Museum. Base strategic airlift and aerial refueling flying training activated Feb. 2, 1933. Named for Lt. Eugene H. schools. Base activated January 1943; inactivated Arnold AFB, Tenn. 37389; approx. 7 mi. SE of Barksdale, WWI airman killed in an August 1926 May 1945; reactivated January 1953. Area 4,735 Manchester. Phone (931) 454-3000; DSN 340-5011. crash near Wright Field, Ohio. Area 22,000 acres acres, plus 818 leased and 1,069 easement/right- AFMC base. Host: Arnold Engineering Develop- (18,000 acres reserved for recreation). Runway of-way. Runways 13,440 ft., with an additional ment Center, the world’s largest complex of wind 11,756 ft. Altitude 166 ft. Military 6,155; civilians 9,000-ft. parallel runway and 3,500-ft. assault tunnels, jet and rocket engine test cells, space 1,366. Payroll $397.3 million. Housing: 105 officer, strip. Altitude 1,381 ft. Military 3,500; civilians 550; simulation chambers, and hyperballistic ranges. 324 enlisted, 1,650 UEQ, 24 guest houses, 139 approx. 400 TDY students (officer and enlisted) in AEDC supports the acquisition of new aerospace VOQ, 20 family campground tent spaces, and 18 RV training per month. Payroll $144.4 million. Housing: systems by conducting research, development, spaces. 45-bed hospital. No emergency services. 148 officer, 652 enlisted, 292 VAQ, 285 VOQ, 34 and evaluation testing for DoD, other government TLF. 15-bed hospital. agencies, and commercial aerospace firms. Base Beale AFB, Calif. 95903-5000; 13 mi. E of Marys- dedicated June 25, 1951. Named for Gen. of the ville. Phone (916) 634-3000; DSN 368-1110. ACC Andersen AFB, Guam, APO AP 96543-5000; 2 Army H. H. “Hap” Arnold, wartime Chief of the base. Host: 9th Reconnaissance Wing, U-2, T-38 mi. N of Yigo. Phone (commercial, from CONUS) AAF. Area 39,081 acres. Inactive 6,000-ft. runway. aircraft. Tenants: Det. 1, 612th Air Operations Gp. 671-366-1110; DSN 315-366-1110. PACAF base. Altitude 1,100 ft. Military 111; civilians 202; NAF (ACC); 7th Space Warning Sq. (AFSPC). Originally Host: 36th Air Base Wing. Tenants: 13th Air Force 49; contract employees 2,979. Payroll $134.6 mil- US Army’s Camp Beale; transferred to Air Force (PACAF); 634th Air Mobility Sq. (Guam ANG); Det. lion. Housing: 23 officer, 17 enlisted, 45 transient. April 1948; became AFB in November 1951. Named 1, 13th Air Support Sq.; Det. 5, 750th Space Gp. Medical aid station and small VA clinic. for Brig. Gen. E.F. Beale, Indian agent in California (AFSPC); Det. 602, Air Force Office of Special prior to Civil War. Area 22,944 acres. Runway Investigations; Helicopter Combat Support Sq. 5 Aviano AB, Italy, APO AE 09601; adjacent to 12,000 ft. Altitude 113 ft. Military 3,078; civilians (Navy). Andersen is the Pacific center for power Aviano, 50 mi. N of Venice. Phone (commercial, 492. Payroll $102.5 million. Housing: 186 officer, projection, regional cooperation, and multinational from CONUS) 011-39-434-667111; DSN 632-1110. 1,518 enlisted, 823 UEQ, 6 UOQ, 53 VOQ, 125 training. It serves as a logistic support and stag- USAFE base. Host: 31st Fighter Wing maintains VAQ, 17 TLF. Clinic. ing base for aircraft operating in the Pacific and two LANTIRN–equipped F-16 fighter squadrons, Indian oceans. Base activated 1945. Named for the 510th and the 555th, capable of conducting Bolling AFB, D.C. 20332-5000; 3 mi. S of US Gen. James Roy Andersen, who was chief of staff, offensive and defensive air combat operations and Capitol. Phone (703) 545-6700; DSN 227-0101. Hq. AAF, Pacific Ocean Areas, and lost at sea flying night-vision goggles missions. Tenants: 16th Host: 11th Wing. Tenants: USAF Honor Guard; between Kwajalein and Hawaii in February 1945. Air Force (USAFE); 603d Air Control Sq. (AMC). USAF Band; Air Force Office of Scientific Research Area: 20,270 acres. Runways (north) 10,555 ft. and Geographically separated units: 31st RED HORSE (AFMC); Air Force Chief of Chaplains; Air Force (south) 11,182 ft. Altitude 612 ft. Military 2,730; Flight and 31st Munitions Sq., Camp Darby, Italy; Surgeon General; Air Force History Support Office; civilians 711. Payroll $46.2 million. Housing: 236 91st Expeditionary Air Base Sq., Pisa, Italy; 31st Air Force Office of Special Investigations; Air Force officer, 1,153 enlisted, 109 VOQ, 120 VAQ, 18 TLF, Munitions Support Sq., Ghedi AB, Italy; 496th Air Real Estate Agency; Air Force Medical Operations 1,017 UEQ, 30 UOQ. Clinic. Base Sq., Morón AB, Spain; 731st Munitions Sup- Agency; Defense Intelligence Agency; Air Force AIR FORCE Magazine / May 1998 115 Legal Services Agency. Activated October 1917. Phone (302) 677-3000; DSN 445-3000. AMC base. training. Base activated October 1944. Named Named for Col. Raynal C. Bolling, first high-ranking Host: 436th Airlift Wing. Tenant: 512th AW (AFRC for Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic aviation pioneer who Air Service officer killed in WWI. Area 607 acres. Assoc.). Dover operates the largest aerial port died in an Arctic rescue mission November 1929. No runway. Military 1,885; civilians 1,687. Payroll facility on the East Coast. Base activated Decem- Area 19,790 acres (including 16 remote sites, $123 million. (Payroll figures apply to 11th Wing ber 1941; inactivated 1946; reactivated February 63,195 acres). Runway 14,500 ft. Altitude 534 ft. only.) Housing: 285 officer, 1,100 enlisted, 502 dorm 1951. Area 3,908 acres. Runway 12,900 ft. Altitude Military 2,735; full-time civilians (NAF, AAFES, spaces, 24 DV, 44 VOQ, 71 VAQ, 50 TLF. Clinic. 28 ft. Military 5,850; civilians 1,025. Payroll $184 Civil Service) 883 (includes ANG Civil Service million. Housing: 107 officer, 1,441 enlisted, 704 technicians). Payroll $117.5 million. Housing: 151 Brooks AFB, Texas 78235; in SE San Antonio. dorm spaces, 128 VAQ, 35 VOQ, 24 TLF. Clinic. officer, 1,367 enlisted. Unaccompanied housing: 8 Phone (210) 536-1110; DSN 240-1110. AFMC officer units, 426 rooms, 750 dorm spaces (includes base. Host: Human Systems Center. Tenants: Dyess AFB, Texas 79607-1980; WSW border NCOQ), 216 VOQ, 240 VAQ spaces, 6 enlisted USAF School of Aerospace Medicine; Air Force of Abilene. Phone (915) 696-0212; DSN 461- and 6 officer DVQ. Research Lab Armstrong Research Site, Human 1110. ACC base. Host: 7th Bomb Wing, two B-1B Systems Program Office; Det. 2, Air Force Institute squadrons (one operational, one training). 7th Ellsworth AFB, S.D. 57706-5000; 10 mi. E of Rapid of Technology; Air Force Medical Support Agency; BW conducts all B-1 combat crew training for the City. Phone (605) 385-1000; DSN 675-1000.