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Camp Douglas, Wisconsin with Volk Field in the background. Volk Field has one asphalt / concrete paved runway (9/27) measuring 9,000 x 150 ft (2,743 x 46 m). [2] The Runway's Edge is the installation's all ranks club and provides hot food and drinks. [14] The Wisconsin National Guard Museum is located at Volk Field.
The facility would be instated as an ANG Permanent Field Training Site (PFTS). Once the ANG took over the site, they completed another round of construction projects totaling $2.5M dollars. Sixty-two concrete block buildings were built including two dining facilities and barracks to house 2,000 men. The north–south runway was extended to ...
As of the census [3] of 2010, there were 601 people, 244 households, and 161 families living in the village. The population density was 595.0 inhabitants per square mile (229.7/km 2).
It was equipped with F-51D Mustangs and its mission was the air defense of the state. On 6 October 1948 the 176th Fighter Squadron was formed at Truax Field, Madison, also equipped with F-51D Mustangs with an air defense mission. 18 September 1947, however, is considered the Wisconsin Air National Guard's official birth concurrent with the ...
Guardsmen board a Canadian CH-146 Griffon helicopter at Fort McCoy during a joint exercise. Fort McCoy is a United States Army Reserve installation on 60,000 acres (24,000 ha) between Sparta and Tomah, Wisconsin, in Monroe County.
The 128th Air Control Squadron (ACS) is one of the units of the Wisconsin Air National Guard based at Volk Field Air National Guard Base, located in Camp Douglas, WI. Originally established as the 128th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron in 1947 at General Billy Mitchell Field , it was subsequently re-designated as a Control and Reporting ...
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Soldiers from Alpha and Charlie Battery of the 1–126th Field Artillery, from Whitewater and Racine, WI respectively, formed Charlie Battery in the 1–120th. On 13 August the 1–120th departed Volk Field, WI for Camp Shelby, MS for approximately three months of pre-deployment training and mobilization processing.