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Griffiss Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force installation in the northeastern United States, located in Central New York state at Rome, about fifteen miles (25 km) northwest of Utica. Missions included fighter interceptors , electronic research, installation, and support activities, aerial refueling , and bombers .
It is a subordinate to the First Air Force (Air Forces Northern) and Continental NORAD Region, both located at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. [1] The Air National Guard (ANG) provides the majority of the forces for the NORAD mission. At EADS, this responsibility belongs to the New York Air National Guard's 224th Air Defense Group.
The brigade was activated at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York as part of the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) on 2 July 1988. The brigade relocated to Fort Drum in 1992. [ 4 ] As per an article by the order of battle analyst Andy Johnson, the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade was a part of the NATO and Warsaw Pact orders of battle.
Renamed Griffiss Air Force Base on 23 Jan 1948 [5], the World War II installation's buildings were used as post-war offices and laboratories, e.g., for testing units that arrived beginning in 1948 from Pennsylvania's Middletown Air Depot [4] (Griffiss had the "2 Msl Trpt Sq" 26 Jan 48-3 Sep 48.) [5]
The origins of the 416th Bombardment Wing begin on 1 August 1958 when Strategic Air Command established the 4039th Strategic Wing at Griffiss AFB, New York [10] as part of SAC's plan to disperse its B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making it more difficult for the Soviet Union to knock out the entire fleet ...
The storm was so powerful that it knocked a 185,000-pound (83,000-kg) B-52 bomber jet off its platform at the Griffiss Air Force Base, according to Hochul. "You cannot imagine the impact of seeing ...
The 88th Air Base Wing headquarters is located in Building 10 on Area A, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on May 17, 2022. (Matthew Clouse/U.S. Air Force)
Griffiss International Airport (IATA: RME, ICAO: KRME, FAA LID: RME) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) east of the central business district of Rome, a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. This airport is publicly owned by County of Oneida. [1] It is located on the former site of Griffiss Air Force Base, which