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Main gate entrance sign 7th Bomb Wing Headquarters Abilene Army Airfield, mid-1940s.. Dyess Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS, FAA LID: DYS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and 150 miles (240 km) west of Fort Worth, Texas.
The 578th Strategic Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 96th Strategic Aerospace Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, where it served from July 1961 until it was inactivated as part of the phaseout of the SM-65F Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile on 25 March 1965.
The 317th Airlift Wing (317 AW) is a United States Air Force unit, stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. Assigned to Air Mobility Command (AMC) Eighteenth Air Force, the 317 AW operates as a tenant unit at Dyess AFB, an installation under the control of the 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).
Changes may be coming to Dyess Air Force Base and the Abilene area as the nation's new stealth bombers take to the skies. Dyess AFB is preferred as the second base for the B-21 Raiders and will ...
Minot Air Force Base [4] 6th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 6th Maintenance Group, 6th Air Mobility Wing: MacDill Air Force Base [5] 7th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Death From Above: 7th Maintenance Group, 7th Bomb Wing: Dyess Air Force Base [6] 9th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 9th Maintenance Group, 9th Reconnaissance Wing: Beale Air ...
Moved to Dyess AFB, TX after closure of Carswell AFB and transfer to US Navy as NAS JRB Fort Worth/Carswell Field; became B-1B Wing (9th BS) 9th Bombardment Squadron 20th Bombardment Squadron (from 2d BW 6/65 to 2d BW 12/92) 492nd Bombardment Squadron (to 4228th SW at Columbus AFB) 11th Bombardment (later Strategic Aerospace) Wing, Altus AFB ...
The U.S. Air Force evaluated environmental impacts of new bomber aircraft mission on Dyess AFB. The base is under review to house the new aircraft.
A Dyess AFB official counters a military news website's re-released list of bases to avoid that includes the Abilene installation.