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Goodfellow Air Force Base is a nonflying United States Air Force base located in San Angelo, Texas, United States. As part of Air Education and Training Command, Goodfellow's main mission is cryptologic and intelligence training for the Air Force, Space Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy, and Marine Corps. Military firefighters are also trained ...
Eglin Air Force Auxiliary Field No. 9 (Hurlburt Field), Florida, 1 April 1955 – 25 June 1958; Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1 February 1963; Beale Air Force Base, California, 30 September 1975 – 30 September 1976; RAF Alconbury, United Kingdom, 1 October 1982 – 30 June 1991; Goodfellow AFB, Texas, 1 July 1993 – present [1]
The squadron designation was reactivated at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda, on 3 March 1955 as the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight under the 9th Weather Reconnaissance Group. It was equipped with WB-50D Superfortresses ; the mission of the 59th was flying into tropical storms and hurricanes - Hurricane Hunting.
In early January 1942, Lieutenant Colonel William J. Wallace arrived at Midway Atoll to take command of the Marine Aircraft Group 21 (MAG-21) Midway detachment. [2] At that time, the detachment contained VMSB-231 and VMF-221 both of which had arrived on Christmas Day 1941 flying off of the USS Saratoga (CV-3). [3]
"The Charleston Air Base public information officer said the aircraft was on a regular transport mission to the U.S. Air Force Base at Dhahran, which is leased from Saudi Arabia and is one of the global chain of strategic bases." [271] It was one of three flying into Dhahran from Tripoli, Libya, an eleven-hour flight. [272]
The airport, originally Carr Field, was built in 1941 by the United States Army Air Forces as a pilot training airfield. Activated on 1 June 1942, the airfield was assigned to the AAF Gulf Coast Training Center, with the Army Air Force Pilot School (Bomber and Specialized 2/4-Engine) activated (phase 3 pilot training).
The 517th Training Group is a group of the United States Air Force. It conducts language training and is assigned to the 17th Training Wing at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas. It is stationed at the Presidio of Monterey, California. It was activated in its present form on 14 May 2009.
Under the plan, the X-15 was to be carried to 40,000 feet (12,000 m) above Utah's Wendover Air Force Base by a B-52 jet, then separate and ignite rocket fuel to climb into space. Crossfield was one of seven X-15 astronauts, as was Neil A. Armstrong. The X-15 would be tested by Crossfield in March, but would not be launched into space.