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A USAF Air Training Command Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star, 51-17429, c/n 580-17462, [94] of the 3700th FMS, based out of Lackland AFB, Texas, crashes into side of Pleasant Mountain, four miles north-northwest of Denmark, Maine, killing Capt. Gordon L. Draheim. [150] Cause determined to be disorientation and fuel exhaustion. [216] [217] 7 July
The 37th Training Wing consists of five training groups and graduates more than 80,000 students annually. These five missions include basic military training of all enlisted recruits entering the Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard; technical training encompassing hundreds of courses for a wide array of career fields and functions; Nursing and Health Services Admin officer ...
Flight 19, a training flight of 5 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers manned by 14 US Navy and Marine personnel from Ft Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida, vanished over the Bermuda Triangle under mysterious circumstances. The Avengers were four TBM-1Cs (BuNo 45714, FT3; BuNo 46094, FT36; BuNo 46325, FT81 and BuNo 73209, FT117) and TBM-3 ...
Lackland is home to more than 24,000 active duty members and 10,000 Department of Defense civilians, according to the base website. It includes the 37th Training Wing; 149th Fighter Wing; 59th ...
328th Fighter Group, 1 November 1957 - 8 January 1958; 57th Fighter Weapons Wing (later 57th Tactical Training Wing, 57th Fighter Weapons Wing), 15 October 1969 - 7 April 1989; 57th Adversary Tactics Group, 15 September 2005 – 26 September 2014 [1] [4] 57th Operations Group, 9 June 2022 - present
[1] On March 5, 1958 the Air Force announced the consolidation of museums at Randolph and Lackland Air Force Bases into the one at Lackland. [9] The History and Traditions Museum annual attendance was over 100,000 in the 1970s. [1] The museum had over 50 aircraft and missiles, a reference library, and miniatures recreating WWII air battles. [10]
Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 1 January 1953; Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts, 4 September 1956 – 31 March 1974; Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, 15 June 199 – 21 September 1995; Kelly Air Force Base (later Kelly Field Annex, Lackland Air Force Base, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland), Texas 1 Aug 2000 – present [2]
The Air Force spent about $6 million on renovations and beginning in February 1951 started training what would be 16,000 Air Force recruits. Air Training Command (ATC) established the 3650th Indoctrination (later Military Training) Wing to manage the base and conduct Basic Training, as its major facility at Lackland AFB, Texas was overflowing ...