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On May 3, 1988, the Carlucci Commission was chartered by Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, [9]: 156 which in December 1988 recommended closing five Air Force bases: Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois, George Air Force Base, Mather Air Force Base and Norton Air Force Base in California, and Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire. [9]: 161
These changes led to Pope Air Force Base being transferred to the new Air Combat Command upon its activation on 1 June 1992. Also, the 317th TAW was blended into the new 23rd Wing on 1 June 1992 when the 23rd Fighter Wing at England Air Force Base Louisiana was transferred to Pope after England's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 1991 closing.
The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission decided that General Mitchell became General Mitchell Air National Guard Station, leaving the Wisconsin Air National Guard's 128th Air Refueling Wing and their Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft in place, and moving the 440th Airlift Wing and its C-130 aircraft to Pope Air Force Base, North ...
Closed Pope Air Force Base: Fayetteville: North Carolina: 2011 Realigned to the US Army as Pope Field [16] Portsmouth Air Force Base: Portsmouth: New Hampshire: 1957 Redesignated as Pease Air Force Base: Presque Isle Air Force Base: Presque Isle: Maine: 1961 Closed Pyote Air Force Base: Pyote: Texas: 1954 Closed.
C-130s of the 440th Operations Group at Pope Air Force Base, N.C Paratroopers prepare to drop from a C-130 of the 440th Operations Group. The 440th Operations Group is an active United States Air Force Reserve unit. It is the flying component of the Twenty-Second Air Force 440th Airlift Wing, stationed at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina.
Pope Army Airfield dedicated the Airman’s Center building in honor of Senior Airman Goodman, who served at Pope Air Force Base from 2006 until her death in 2009 while deployed to Afghanistan.
The 43rd Airlift Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit last stationed at Pope Field, part of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where it was inactivated in March 2011.. The wing performed en route operations support at Pope Field to include mission command & control, aircrew management, aircraft maintenance, aircraft loading, aircraft fueling and sup
On 28 and 29 April, the squadron flew C-130s to Pope Air Force Base to join the task force to transport elements of the 82nd Division to San Isidro Air Base. By September, peacekeeping functions had been transferred to Latin American counties' forces and the squadron helped return American forces to the United States. [9]