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In 1976, the area was chosen by the Royal Jordanian Air Force for a major new air base. Construction started that same year and in November 1980, No 1 (Northrop F-5A/B Freedom Fighter) and No 11 Squadrons (F-5E/F Tiger II) were deployed there. The air base was officially opened on 24 May 1981.
Between November 2014 and January 2015, the United States began positioning MQ-9 Reaper UAVs at the base. [2] The base also houses AH-1F Cobras, believed to be from the 10th and 12th Squadrons of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, and a Cessna 208B Caravan from the 15th Squadron and the Air Tractor 802i from the 25th Squadron [2]
Military installations of the United States in Jordan (2 P) ... Prince Hassan Air Base This page was last edited on 23 April 2017, at 22:21 (UTC). Text ...
The base, known as Tower 22, sits near the demilitarized zone on the border between Jordan and Syria along a sandy, bulldozed berm marking the DMZ's southern edge. The Iraqi border is only 10 ...
But it includes logistics support and there are 350 U.S. Army and Air Force troops at the base. Tower 22 is near Al Tanf garrison, which is located across the border in Syria, and which houses a ...
The United States Air Force has used the base occasionally since the 1980s, [citation needed] with a 2017 report noting that U.S. Air Force C-17s are transiting the airfield regularly. [ 6 ] The French Air and Space Force has been using Prince Hassan Air Base as a base of operation since 2014, deploying six Mirage 2000 fighter jets there, which ...
Photos collected by Hots&Cots and provided exclusively to NBC News reveal what the group considers evidence of unsanitary or dangerous living conditions for U.S. military personnel at bases in the ...
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