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Now: Columbus Air Force Base Known sub-bases and auxiliaries Columbus Auxiliary Field River Auxiliary Field Caledonia Auxiliary Field Waterworks Auxiliary Field Columbus Municipal Airport (Old) Vaughn Auxiliary Field Stinson Auxiliary Field Starkville Auxiliary Field. Greenville Army Airfield, Greenville, Mississippi; Southeast Training Center ...
Columbus Air Force Base (AFB) was established in 1941, after the US War Department authorized a pilot training base in Columbus, Mississippi. It was originally named Kaye Field, after World War I flying ace Samuel Kaye Jr., but confusion with nearby Key Field in Meridian, Mississippi led to it being renamed as Columbus Army Flying School.
Starkville is the largest city in the Golden Triangle, which had a population of 175,474 in 2020, and the principal city of the Starkville-Columbus, MS CSA. Founded in 1831, the city was originally known as Boardtown for the local sawmilling operation there, but was renamed in 1837 to honor American Revolutionary War general John Stark. [7]
Reorganized and expanded to form the 932d Field Artillery Battalion (organized in east central Mississippi and Federally recognized 17 December 1946 with headquarters at Starkville), an element of the 31st Infantry Division, and the 631st Field Artillery Battalion (see below).
Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi (1 C, 5 P) F. Forts in Mississippi (2 C, 1 P) I. Installations of the United States Air ...
It is managed by the Mississippi Military Department. The Mississippi Army National Guard maintains 97 armories in 93 communities. Mississippi Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same ranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards.
Opened in 1934 as Starkville Municipal Airport. During World War II the airport was taken over abruptly by the government to be used as a glider training base ( Starkville AF Auxiliary Field ). Plans for the AAF Basic Training Detachment were for 150 students using the Aeronca TG-5 gliders.
The Starkville–Columbus, MS Combined Statistical Area was formerly known as Columbus–West Point was defined as consisting of Clay and Lowndes counties in northeastern Mississippi, which were separately treated as the West Point Micropolitan Statistical Area and Columbus Micropolitan Statistical Area, respectively.