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Laredo Air Force Base. Service members of WASP on the flight line at Laredo Army Air Field, Texas, 22 January 1944. Laredo Air Force Base, is a since-deactivated Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) installation of the Air Training Command (ATC) in Laredo, Texas. The facility was originally established as Laredo Army Air Field, a World War II U.S ...
Laredo Air Force Station ( FUDS Site No. K06TX021600) [1] was a Cold War radar station of the United States Air Force in Texas. It had an AN/FPS-17, an AN/FPS-78 (used during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ' Falling Leaves radar network), and the last Avco AN/FSS-7 SLBM Detection Radar. Northeast of Laredo, Texas, located at 27°37′08″N 099 ...
The Laredo International Airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as Laredo Army Airfield, and by the United States Air Force as Laredo Air Force Base during the Cold War as a pilot training base with T-33 Shooting Star and later T-37 Tweet and T-38 Talon aircraft.
Giebelstadt Air Base. Turned over to United States Army, 1968. Hahn Air Base (Closed 1994) Landsberg Air Base. Turned over to West German Air Force, 1957. Kaufbeuren Air Base. Turned over to West German Air Force, 1957. Munich-Riem Airport, returned to civil use, 1948. Neubiberg Air Base.
In use. 1940–present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established numerous airfields in Texas for training pilots and aircrews. The amount of available land and the temperate climate made Texas a prime location for year-round military training. By the end of the war, 65 Army airfields were built in the state.
Supports USAFCENT CAOC. 611th Air Communications Squadron. JB Elmendorf-Richardson. Supports Alaska NORAD Region, 11 AF, and 611 AOC [ 7 ] 612th Air Communications Squadron [ 8 ] Davis–Monthan AFB. Jul 94- 12 AF / AFSOUTH CAOC. 614th Air and Space Communications Squadron [ 9 ] Vandenberg Space Force Base.
A U.S. Air Force North American OV-10A-30-NH Bronco in flight with two North American F-100C Super Sabres of the 136th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Forward air controllers (FACs) played a significant part in the Vietnam War from the very start. Largely relegated to airborne duty by the constraints of jungled terrain, FACs began operations as ...
San Antonio. Dyess Air Force Base. Abilene. Goodfellow Air Force Base. San Angelo. Laughlin Air Force Base. Del Rio. Sheppard Air Force Base. Wichita Falls.