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Eglin Air Force Base (IATA: VPS, ICAO: KVPS, FAA LID: VPS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida Panhandle, located about three miles (5 km) southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County. The host unit at Eglin is the 96th Test Wing (formerly the 96th Air Base Wing).
Hanscom Air Force Base: Lincoln: Massachusetts: Air Force Materiel Command: 66th Air Base Group: Non-flying installation, hosting the Electronic Systems Center, part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. [26] Hill Air Force Base: Ogden: Utah
A 2012 Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility opened at the site [8] and in 2013, "new operating modes at Cavalier AFS and Eglin AFB [Site C-6 provided] more accuracy" than the 1961 VHF Space Surveillance Fence, [58] which could not detect space objects in low altitude/high eccentricity orbits [5] and was decommissioned [58] by November 2013.
39th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Eglin AFB, Florida; Activated to replace: 4135th Strategic Wing B-52G, 1963–1965 62nd Bombardment Squadron (a/c from 301st BS; to 2nd BW 6/65) Inactivated in 1965; Eglin AFB SAC facilities transferred to TAC. 42nd Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Loring AFB, Maine; B-52C, 1956–1957; B-52D, 1957–1959; B-52G, 1959–1994
Eglin Field was chosen to test launching techniques. Eglin received its first JB-2 for testing in the fall of 1944. Three sites were created on Eglin's Gulf-side property, all designed to test different launching techniques. Two sites are located within a half mile of each other on Santa Rosa Island, on Air Force property.
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)
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, 1 July 1977 – 30 September 1979; 1 July 1981 – 15 December 1982; Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Washington, 15 December 2004 – 27 September 2010 [5] [3] Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, c. 1 May 2024 – present [4]
World War II showed the need for a proving ground for aircraft armament at Eglin. In May 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transmitted to congress a letter, with his approval, from Budget Director Harold D. Smith, asking an appropriation of US$76,750 (equivalent to $1,669,176 in 2023) to purchase 24,111 acres (9,757 ha) of private land within the Choctawhatchee National Forest boundary. [7]