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Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010 to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord. Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the United States, consisting of 87,000 acres (136 sq mi; 350 km2) of prairie land cut from the ...
List of United States military bases in Illinois is a listing of current and former United States military bases located in the US State of Illinois. Air Force
Scott Air Force Base, Illinois: Nickname(s) Surface Warriors: Motto(s) Deliver Readiness and Lethality: Commanders; Commander: MG Lance G. Curtis: Deputy to the Commander: Kristina M. O'Brien: Deputy Commanding Officer: Colonel David P. Key: Chief of Staff: Colonel Shari R. Bennett: Command Sergeant Major: Command Sergeant Major Randy Brown ...
Joint Base Lewis-McChord (WA) 834th Transportation Battalion: 596th Transportation Brigade: Concord (CA) 835th Transportation Battalion: 599th Transportation Brigade: Okinawa : 836th Transportation Battalion: 599th Transportation Brigade: Yokohama : 837th Transportation Battalion: 599th Transportation Brigade: Busan (South Korea) 838th ...
This Article is a list of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons active, inactive, and historical. The purpose of an aircraft control and warning squadron is to provide an airborne radar picket to detect vessels, planes, and vehicles before they enter an area of operations, as well as providing command and control in an engagement by directing aircraft strikes.
The McChord AFB facility was consolidated with the U.S. Army's Fort Lewis on 1 February 2010 to become part of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord complex. [2] This initiative was driven by the Base Realignment and Closure Round in 2005 and is designed to combine current infrastructure into one maximizing war fighting capability and efficiency, while ...
Joint Base Lewis-McChord has shut down all of its beaches for a safety review following the drowning Monday of a service member. “We just want to make sure that we’re doing things by the ...
The group directs four squadrons operating from 11 locations in Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and Japan. The group provides an Air Support Operations Center and Tactical Air Control Parties to US Army combat units at multiple echelons including United States Army Pacific, I Corps, and nine aviation, airborne, infantry and Stryker brigade combat teams of the 2nd and 25th Infantry Divisions.