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The McChord AFB facility was consolidated with the U.S. Army's Fort Lewis on 1 February 2010 to become part of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord complex. [2] This initiative was driven by the Base Realignment and Closure Round in 2005 and is designed to combine current infrastructure into one maximizing war fighting capability and efficiency, while ...
Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base is an air defense military installation located at civilian public-use Francis S. Gabreski Airport, located just north of Westhampton Beach, New York. It is currently the home base of the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing. [3]
During 1942, the site was leased by the United States Army from Clarence Mackay for a headquarters station, initially for the I Interceptor Command, then the unit being re-designated to I Fighter Command, a component of First Air Force. The leased site was designated as "Subpost #3, Mitchel Army Airfield". The 164th Army Air Forces Base Unit ...
Mitchel Air Force Base, also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States.Established in 1918 as Hazelhurst Aviation Field #2, the facility was renamed later that year as Mitchel Field in honor of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, who was killed while training for the Air Service in Louisiana.
McChord Field (later McChord Air Force Base), Washington, 14 July 1947; Deployed at Elmendorf Field, Alaska, 2 September-1 December 1948. Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, 9 May 1950; McChord Air Force Base, Washington, 27 July 1950; Larson Air Force Base, Washington, 9 May 1952; McChord Air Force Base, Washington, 13 June 1960 – present [1]
The McChord Air Museum is an aviation museum located at McChord Field near Lakewood, Washington.The museum is broken up into three separate areas: the main gallery, located at the south end of McChord Field in Building 517; the Heritage Hill Airpark, which overlooks the McChord Field runway; and the aircraft restoration and maintenance facility in Building 301.
Bergstrom Field, Texas, 7 September 1946; McChord Field (later McChord Air Force Base), Washington, 20 July 1947 – 28 November 1950; Ashiya Air Base, Japan, 1 December 1950; Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, 25 July–16 November 1951; McChord Air Force Base, Washington, 16 November 1951; Larson Air Force Base, Washington, 11 May 1952
In July 2006, the squadron was reassigned to the USAF Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, but remained at McGuire until the summer of 2017, when it moved to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, where the host 62d Airlift Wing was better able to provide C-17 support for the squadron.