Military Installations : 2010
AIR FORCE BASES in the UNITED STATES
Military Installations:
Alabama
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Maxwell-Gunter AFB
Maxwell AFB is the headquarters of Air University. AU is a major component of Air Education and Training Command and is located in Montgomery, Alabama.
Alaska
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Eielson AFB
This installation in Fairbanks, Alaska is home to the 354th Fighter Wing, assigned to the 11th Air Force in the major command of the Pacific Air Forces.
Elmendorf AFB
Adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, Elmendorf AFB supports and defends U.S. interests in the Asia Pacific region and around the world. Elmendorf's host unit is the 3d Wing.
Arizona
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Davis-Monthan AFB
Davis-Monthan's primary operational mission is to train A-10 and OA-10 pilots and to provide A-10 and OA-10 close air support and forward air control to U.S. ground forces worldwide.
Luke AFB
Luke AFB is a major training base of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), training pilots in the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Arkansas
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Little Rock AFB
Little Rock is the only C-130 training base for the DoD, training C-130 pilots, navigators, flight engineers, and loadmasters from all branches of the military in tactical airlift and aerial delivery.
California
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Beale AFB
The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is responsible for providing national and theater command authorities with timely, reliable, high-quality, high-altitude reconnaissance products. The wing is equipped with the nation's fleet of U-2 and RQ-4 reconnaissance aircraft and associated support equipment.
Edwards AFB
Designated as the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), Edwards is home to the 412th Test Wing, the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
Los Angeles AFB
Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center. The center manages research, development and acquisition of military space systems.
Travis AFB
Situated in the San Francisco Bay Area and known as the "Gateway to the Pacific", Travis Air Force Base handles more cargo and passenger traffic through its airport than any other military air terminal in the United States.
Vandenberg AFB
Vandenberg's location on the northern Pacific Ocean makes it possible to easily launch satellites into polar orbit, unlike the Kennedy Space Center. This, along with its location relative to the jet stream, makes Vandenberg a good site to launch reconnaissance satellites.
Colorado
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Air Force Academy
Buckley AFB
In October 2000, the Buckley Air National Guard base was transferred to U.S. Air Force control, and it was renamed the Buckley Air Force Base.
Petersen AFB
Peterson AFB is home to the United States Northern Command, NORAD, Air Force Space Command, AFSPC's 21st Space Wing, Army Space Command, and the Air Force Reserve Command's 302d Airlift Wing.
Schriever AFB
The base is home to Air Force Space Command's 50th Space Wing, which provides command and control for more than 170 DoD warning, navigational, and communications satellites.
Delaware
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Dover AFB
Dover AFB is the home for the DoD's largest military mortuary and has been used for processing military personnel killed in both war and peacetime.
District of Columbia
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Bolling AFB
Bolling AFB has served as a research and testing ground for new aviation equipment and its first mission provided aerial defense of the capital. It moved to its present location, along the Potomac in the city's southwest quadrant, in the 1930s.
Florida
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Elgin AFB
Hurlburt AFB
Hurlburt Field was originally designated as Auxiliary Field No. 9, one of the original small pilot and gunnery training fields built on the Eglin Air Force Base complex in the 1940s.
MacDill AFB
Now an operational base, MacDill has about 6,000 airmen and civilians on 5,000 acres, located on the Southwestern tip of the Interbay Peninsula on the west coast of Florida.
Patrick AFB
Patrick AFB is home to the 45th Space Wing, whose Officers and Airmen manage all launches of unmanned rockets at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Tyndall AFB
The base operating unit and host wing is the 325th Fighter Wing of the Air Education and Training Command. Tyndall Field was opened on 13 January 1941 as a gunnery range.
Georgia
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Moody AFB
Robins AFB
Hawaii
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Hickam AFB
Idaho
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Mountain Home AFB
Illinois
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Scott AFB
Kansas
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McConnell AFB
Louisiana
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Barksdale AFB
Maryland
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Andrews AFB
Massachusetts
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Hanscom AFB
Hanscom AFB serves primarily as the Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center. ESC, which also operates at other sites throughout the country, manages the development and acquisition of electronic command and control systems.
Missouri
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Whiteman AFB
Montana
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Malmstrom AFB
Nevada
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Creech AFB
Nellis AFB
New Jersey
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McGuire AFB
New Mexico
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Cannon AFB
Holloman AFB
Kirtland AFB
North Carolina
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Pope AFB
Seymour Johnson AFB
North Dakota
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Grand Forks AFB
Minot AFB
Ohio
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Wright-Patterson AFB
Oklahoma
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Altus AFB
Tinker AFB
Vance AFB
South Carolina
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Charleston AFB
Shaw AFB
South Dakota
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Ellsworth AFB
Tennessee
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Arnold AFB
Texas
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Dyess AFB
Goodfellow AFB
Lackland AFB
Laughlin AFB
Randolph AFB
Sheppard AFB
Utah
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Hill AFB
Virginia
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Langley AFB
Washington
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Fairchild AFB
Fairchild is home to a wide variety of units and missions. Most prominent is its air refueling mission, with two wings, one active, the 92d Air Refueling Wing, and one Air National Guard, the 141st Air Refueling Wing, both flying the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker.
McChord AFB
McChord is home to a wide variety of units and missions. The 62nd Airlift Wing is the active duty host wing on McChord. The 62nd Airlift Wing is joined by its Reserve partner the 446th Airlift Wing. Together, the two wings fly 50 C-17 Globemaster IIIs to provide combat airlift for America.
Wyoming
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F.E. Warren AFB
Even though this installation became an Air Force base in 1947, the only conventional airfield ever located at F. E. Warren AFB was a single dirt strip. This field, never used by modern day pilots, was made famous by World War I ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker who crashed his plane on the field and survived.