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Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base, located approximately 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Clovis, New Mexico. The host unit at Cannon is the 27th Special Operations Wing (27 SOW) also known as "The Steadfast Line". [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Military installations in New Mexico" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It is located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, urban area, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport. The base was named for the early Army aviator Col. Roy C. Kirtland. [2] The military and the international airport share the same runways, making ABQ a joint civil-military airport.
Holloman Air Force Base (IATA: HMN, ICAO: KHMN, FAA LID: HMN) is a United States Air Force base established in 1942 located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, which is the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. The base was named in honor of Col. George V. Holloman, a pioneer in guided ...
Sandia Base was located at about 35° 02' 25" N, 106° 32' 59" W at an elevation 5,394 feet (1,644 m) above sea level. It was in the southeast quadrant of Albuquerque, bounded roughly by Louisiana Boulevard SE and Kirtland Air Force Base on the west, and Eubank Avenue SE and the Sandia Mountains on the east, and Isleta Pueblo lands on the south.
Pages in category "Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in New Mexico" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Military units and formations in New Mexico" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
1864: Edward Canby ordered Colonel Kit Carson to bring four companies of the First New Mexico Volunteers to the fort to "control" the Navajo. 1864–1866: It was the staging point for the Navajo deportation known as the Long Walk of the Navajo. 1865: The New Mexico Military District had 3,089 troops, 135 of them at Fort Wingate.