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Mountain Home Air Force Base (IATA: MUO, ICAO: KMUO, FAA LID: MUO) is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation in the western United States.Located in southwestern Idaho in Elmore County, the base is twelve miles (20 km) southwest of Mountain Home, which is forty miles (65 km) southeast of Boise via Interstate 84.
The 391st Fighter Squadron is part of the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho.The squadron participated in combat missions in World War II and the Vietnam War, provided air defense in Korea and Japan from 1968 to 1971, and continues to provide tactical air command for the United States Air Force.
The wing comprises four groups: the 366th Operations Group, 366th Maintenance Group, 366th Mission Support Group and 366th Medical Group. [citation needed]The wing is home to three fighter squadrons: the 389th Fighter Squadron and 391st Fighter Squadron flying the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft and the 428th Fighter Squadron which flies the Republic of Singapore Air Force F-15F (aka F-15SG). [2]
Air Force service members and families have struggled for years to find housing near the Mountain Home Air Force Base about 50 miles southeast of Boise.
Mountain Home Air Force Base, an Air Combat Command installation, is located 12 miles (20 km) southwest of the city. Opened in 1943 during World War II, it was originally a bomber training base and later an operational Strategic Air Command bomber and missile base (1953–65).
A number of non-NATO allies also train pilots in the U.S. Singaporean airmen are stationed at Idaho’s Mountain Home Air Force Base as part of the 428th Fighter Squadron, an integrated training unit.
The 428th Fighter Squadron is part of the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho.Currently, it operates F-15SG Strike Eagle aircraft conducting formal training missions to qualify Republic of Singapore Air Force crew in the F-15SG in a program titled Peace Carvin V.
366th Wing (Headquartered at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho; aircraft located at Castle AFB, California) B-52G, 1992–1994 34th Bombardment Squadron 34 BS equipped with B-1B Lancers in 1994. 376th Strategic Wing, Kadena AB, Okinawa; 4180th Bombardment Squadron (Provisional) (never made operational)