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Pages in category "Military installations in Florida" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. ... Naval Amphibious Training Base Fort Pierce;
28th Base HQ and Air Base Squadron, c. 15 July 1942; MacDill Field Base Detachment, 13 December 1943; 326th AAF Base Unit, 1 May 1944; 307th Airdrome Group, 15 August 1947; 307th Air Base Group, 12 July 1948; 306th Air Base Group, 1 September 1950; 809th Air Base Group, 16 June 1952 (redesignated 809th Combat Support Group, 1 January 1959)
The Florida National Guard began using the site in 1928 and it was renamed Camp J. Clifford R. Foster. In 1939 a group of 10 ex service men traveled to Washington at their own expense to talk the Navy, who was looking for a new base, to come and look at the old National Guard base, they did and liked what they saw.
Naval Station Mayport (IATA: NRB, ICAO: KNRB, FAA LID: NRB) is a major United States Navy base on San Pablo Island [3] in Jacksonville, Florida. It contains a protected harbor that can accommodate aircraft carrier-size vessels, ship's intermediate maintenance activity (SIMA) and a military airfield (Admiral David L. McDonald Field) with one ...
Naval Air Station Whiting Field is a United States Navy base located near Milton, Florida, with some outlying fields near Navarre, Florida, in south and central Santa Rosa County, and is one of the Navy's two primary pilot training bases (the other being NAS Corpus Christi, Texas).
The residential portion of the base is a census-designated place; its population was 8,082 at the 2000 census. Eglin Air Force Base had 2,359 military family housing units. Unmarried junior enlisted members generally live in one of Eglin's seven dormitories located near the dining hall, chapel, base gym, enlisted club, and bus lines on base.
(The Center Square) – Florida's military bases could receive $488 million from the Department of Defense's fiscal 2025 appropriation if President Joe Biden signs the bill into law. The bill was ...
The U.S. Navy's presence in Key West dates back to 1823 when a Naval Base was established to stop piracy in this area. The lower Keys were home to many wealthy shipping merchants whose fleets operated from these waters. This drew the interest of pirates who used the Florida Keys as a base from which to prey on shipping lanes.