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105th Air Refueling Squadron

The United States Air Force's 105th Air Refueling Squadron (105 ARS) is an aerial refueling unit that operates the KC-135 Stratotanker at AFB.

Amberley, Queensland

Australia's biggest air force base, the RAAF Base Amberley is situated here and the Bureau of Meteorology has a weather observation station in Amberley.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany.

Umiat, Alaska

In 1944, the Naval Oil Reserve was set up and it later became an air force base, which is now closed.

United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2002

Following redistricting as a result of the 2000 Census, this district, based in southeastern Georgia, maintained its strongly conservative bent, pulling from the conservative suburbs of Savannah, the social conservatives along the coastline, and stretching into the highly conservative Warner Robins, where an air force base is located.


see also

214th

214th Reconnaissance Group, a group of the United States Air Force located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

231st

231st Combat Communications Squadron, a tenant unit of the 113th Wing based at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA

457th

457th Airlift Squadron (457 AS), part of the 375th Airlift Wing at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland

480th

480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing (480th ISR Wing) is headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, Va.

490th

490th Missile Squadron (490 MS), part of the 341st Missile Wing based at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana

507th

507th Air Refueling Wing, a wing of the United States Air Force based out of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma

513th

513th Electronic Warfare Squadron, United States Air Force unit assigned to the 53d Electronic Warfare Group at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

93d Operations Group

While the 93d was at RAF Alconbury, His Majesty, King George VI paid his first visit to an Eighth Air Force base on 13 November 1942.

Andersen Air Force Base

Andersen Air Force Base is home to Andersen Elementary School and Andersen Middle School.

Andrew Hardie, Baron Hardie

The trial itself was held in a special sitting of the High Court of Justiciary, sitting as the Scottish Court in the Netherlands, at Camp Zeist, a former US Air Force base in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Andrews Field

In June 2006, the 316th Wing stood up under the command of AFDW as the new host unit for Andrews Air Force Base and its nearly 50 tenant units to include organizations from the U.S. Army, the Air Force Reserve Command, Air National Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and the Civil Air Patrol.

Bangladesh Air Force Academy

The Bangladesh Air Force Academy is located in the district town of Jessore at Matiur Rahman Air Force Base.

Beriev Be-200

The aircraft recovered safely to land at Monte Real air force base, from which it had been operating.

Bombers B-52

Nelson Leigh as Brigadier General Wayne Acton, Commanding Officer Castle Air Force Base

Brian Zins

After completing the Recruit training program at Paris Island, South Carolina, Zins attended the Military Police School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Camp Cooke

Vandenberg Air Force Base, a U.S. Air Force Base in California originally named Camp Cooke

Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base

Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base (1954–1969) is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base located near the town of Burns Flat in Washita County, Oklahoma, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of the city of Clinton, Oklahoma.

Dalanjargalan

Sum center is Olon Ovoo railway station on Trans-Mongolian Railway(Ulan Bator - Beijing) line and abandoned Soviet air force base location.

Eschwege displaced persons camp

The displaced persons camp of Eschwege, a former German air force base in the Frankfurt district of the American-occupied zone, became a displaced persons (DP) camp in January 1946.

Fairfax, California B-17 Crash

The plane, which carried the serial number of 44-85510, took off at 4 pm on May 15 from Clovis Army Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico.

Flight 143

Air Canada Flight 143, which became known as the "Gimli Glider" after it landed at Gimli Air Force Base on July 22, 1983, having glided 80 miles after running out of fuel

Florida State Road 989

By the late 1960s, the State Road was realigned to Moody Drive to provide increased access to the base's two northern entrance gates as the increasing intensity of the Cold War and the rise to power of Fidel Castro in nearby Cuba amplified the importance of Homestead Air Force Base to the national security of the United States.

Fylde Air Base

Located near Chegutu, Fylde Air Force Base is one of the three main air bases for the Air Force of Zimbabwe home to air defence and regimental training.

George Owen Johnson

There was a school named in his honour at the The Royal Canadian Air Force base and training school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

Hector E. Pagan

Also present were ROTC classmates, a friend from Chile, family members from Puerto Rico and a South Korean brigadier general and Admiral Eric T. Olson, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

Henderson, Texas

The 1970 science-fiction film Colossus: The Forbin Project mentions Henderson as the site of the fictitious Henderson Air Force Base, the target of a retaliatory ICBM fired by Colossus' Soviet counterpart, the defense supercomputer "Guardian".

Hoedspruit

The civil Eastgate Airport, which shares the Air Force base's airfield is, as of February 2012, is served by South African Express, several charter operators as well as general aviation.

Joseph K. Spiers

He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (where he was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) and a master of science degree in aerospace engineering through the Air Force Institute of Technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1967.

KOLT

KOLT-FM, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, United States

Leslie F. Kenne

She also has served as Vice Commander of Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and the Sacramento Air Logistics Center, McClellan Air Force Base, Calif. Prior to assuming her current position, Kenne commanded the Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.

Loring Air Force Base Alert Area

The Loring Air Force Base Alert Area is a former alert area for B-52 Stratofortress aircraft of the 42d Bombardment Wing situated at the former Loring Air Force Base at Limestone, Maine.

Mather, California

Mather Air Force Base, a closed Air Force base on the site of Mather Airport

McGuire Air Force Base

On 13 January 1948 the United States Air Force renamed the facility McGuire Air Force Base in honor of Major Thomas Buchanan McGuire, Jr., (1920–1945).

Pacific Missile Range

The Western Range, a currently active missile range supporting launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base and elsewhere

Patty Shepard

Shepard first arrived in Spain with her father, an official with the U.S. Air Force, who was stationed at an air force base in Torrejón de Ardoz.

Pease Air National Guard Base

In 1957, the Air Force renamed the facility as Pease Air Force Base in honor of New Hampshire native Captain Harl Pease, Jr. who posthumously earned the Medal of Honor for heroism during World War II.

Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base

Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base was named on 27 April 1957 in honor of Kansas City natives 1st Lieutenant John Francisco Richards II (1894–1918) and Lieutenant Colonel Arthur William Gebaur Jr. (1919–1952).

Robert M. Wilson, Jr.

In the summer of 1970, he enlisted in the Arkansas Air National Guard and attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Robins Air Force Base

The C-27J Schoolhouse, operated by L-3 Link, officially began classes at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia in September 2008.

S.A. Griffin

Griffin served honorably as a clerk typist in the United States Air Force from 1972–1976, and was stationed at Warner Robins Air Force Base in Georgia and Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.

San Bernardino International Airport

Several major projects for the surrounding area have been completed, including Stater Bros. Markets which moved its corporate headquarters to the former air-force base site in September 2007.

Sidi Slimane, Morocco

Sidi Slimane is home to a Moroccan Air Force base, Sidi Slimane Air Base.

Silvio Pettirossi

Asunción's Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, three soccer clubs, the Airborne Brigade of the Paraguayan Air Force, a Paraguayan Air Force Base in Luque, an avenue in Asunción, the Paraguayan Institute of Aviation History, a school, and some other things are named after him.

SLC-2

Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2 - a rocket launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base

Thornhill High School

Thornhill High School opened on the air force base in Gwelo, Rhodesia (now Gweru, Zimbabwe) in January 1955.

U.S. military response during the September 11 attacks

NEADS responded to this report by giving a scramble order to three fighters from the 1st Fighter Wing on alert at Langley Air Force Base at 9:24, and by 9:30 they were in the air.

Wayne Ray

After moving to Woodstock, Ontario in 1965, he and his brother Cris became Lone Scouts and in 1965 Troop 6 Ernest Harmon Air Force Base and 1968 Ray received his Eagle Scout and Queen's Scout awards while attending Troop 11 in Woodstock.

Wild Geese GAA

In Los Angeles there is a Gaelic football club who also go by the same name and at Lakenheath U.S. air force base there is a hurling club also called Wild Geese.

William A. Pailes

He was an HC-130 pilot in Air Force Rescue from December 1975 to July 1980 in McClellan Air Force Base, California and Royal Air Force Base, Woodbridge, England.

William P. Acker

Returning to Thailand in March 1974, he assumed command of the 432d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing (redesignated 432nd Tactical Fighter Wing) at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base.