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HAER No. ND-12, "Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero", 13 photos, 45 data pages, 3 photo caption pages; HAER No. ND-12-A, "Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Support Building", 28 photos, 5 data pages, 4 photo caption pages
It is part of the "Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area" or "Greater Grand Forks". According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.1 square miles (21 km 2), all land. [4] As of the census [5] of 2000, there were 4,832 people, 1,279 households, and 1,230 families residing on the base.
4133rd Strategic Wing Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota; B-52H, 1962–1963 30th Bombardment Squadron Inactivated on 1 February 1963, assets to 46th BS/319th BW. 4134th Strategic Wing Mather AFB, California; B-52F, 1958–1963 72nd Bombardment Squadron Inactivated on 1 September 1963, assets to 441st BS/320th BW. 4135th Strategic Wing Eglin AFB ...
Grand Forks Air Force Base: Grand Forks: North Dakota: Air Combat Command: 319th Reconnaissance Wing: The 319th Reconnaissance Wing operates the RQ-4B Global Hawk in the high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance role. [25]
The 321st Strategic Missile Wing was the sixth, and last United States Air Force LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM wing. In 1962, the Air Force announced that the Grand Forks AFB would be first to deploy the new LGM-30F Minuteman II missile (The previous deployments were all Minuteman I).
The 319th Operations Group is a United States Air Force unit assigned to 319th Reconnaissance Wing, Air Combat Command.It is stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota operating RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) role.
The lockdown has been lifted at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota after a report of a gunshot on Wednesday afternoon sent people indoors. The base said in an earlier post that security at ...
On 1 November 1963 the squadron was redesignated the 447th Strategic Missile Squadron, a SAC intercontinental ballistic missile squadron, but it was not organized at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota until 1 February 1965. [1] The squadron was the first to be equipped with LGM-30F Minuteman II missiles. [24]