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Joint Base Andrews (JBA) (IATA: ADW, ICAO: KADW, FAA LID: ADW) is a United States military facility located in Prince George's County, Maryland. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force (USAF) 316th Wing , Air Force District of Washington (AFDW). [ 2 ]
Andrews Air Force Base is located at (38.803490, −76.871508), [19] a few miles southeast of Washington, D.C. near the town of Morningside in Prince George's County, Maryland It is delineated as a census-designated place by the United States Census Bureau .
[8] [9] MD 337 was widened with a pair of 3.5-foot-wide (1.1 m) bituminous shoulders for its whole length between 1940 and 1942. [10] [11] MD 337 east of Auth Road was relocated for the construction of Andrews Air Force Base during World War II. The easternmost portion of the new road became part of federally maintained Suitland Parkway. [8]
It fully opened on December 9, 1944 as the Camp Springs highway, so called because it connected Camp Springs (now Joint Base Andrews) in Prince George's County with Bolling Air Force Base. [4] [5] However one lane of the highway was opened in mid-October 1944. [6] The Suitland Parkway is 9.35 miles (15.05 km) long.
As part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program, it was recommended that Naval Air Facility Washington and Andrews Air Force Base, became a joint base known as Joint Base Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington, or Joint Base Andrews for short. The merger was effective from 1 October 2009, when the joint base was established, with ...
The 113th Wing, known as the "Capital Guardians", is a unit of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, stationed at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.If activated to federal service, the fighter portion of the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force's Air Combat Command, while the airlift portion is gained by Air Mobility Command.
The road through Meadows, now Old Marlboro Pike and several roads on the grounds of Andrews Air Force Base, was bypassed along MD 4's modern alignment in 1939. [14] Along its concurrency with US 301 through Upper Marlboro, MD 4 was widened with a pair of 3-foot-wide (0.91 m) concrete shoulders in 1946. [ 15 ]
The 316th Operations Group (316 OG) is the flying component of the Air Force District of Washington 316th Wing, stationed at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.It provides rotary-wing contingency response support capability to the United States National Capital Region while also supporting regional and global customers with critical airfield infrastructure and aviation services.