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The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
Map of the small U.S. military installations, ranges and training areas in the continental United States. This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world.
The world's largest air force, it has a $179.7 billion budget [16] [17] [18] and is the second largest service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, with 321,848 active duty airmen, [f] [3] 147,879 civilian personnel, [g] 68,927 reserve airmen, [h] [3] 105,104 Air National Guard airmen, [i] [3] and approximately 65,000 Civil Air Patrol auxiliarists.
Bagram Air Base was formerly the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan, [4] staffed by the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing of the U.S. Air Force, along with rotating units of the U.S. and coalition forces. It was expanded and modernized by the Americans. [5]
I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982, Office of Air Force History, 1989 Pfau, Richard A., and Greenhalgh Jr., William H., "The Air Force in Southeast Asia: The B-57G Tropic Moon III 1967–1972" Archived 23 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1978
The base's host unit, the 60th Air Mobility Wing, is the largest wing in the Air Force's Air Mobility Command, with a versatile fleet of 26 C-5 Galaxies, KC-46 Pegasus, and 13 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft.
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)
An Air Force Materiel Command unit, the group is under the command of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The 309th AMARG was originally meant to store excess Department of Defense and Coast Guard aircraft, but has in recent years been designated the sole repository of out-of-service aircraft from all branches of the ...