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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.
In April 2019, Colonel Arthur Perrault, an Air Force chaplain, was convicted of sexually abusing an altar boy. The attacks took place at Kirtland Air Force Base, at an amusement park and a veterans' cemetery in New Mexico in the early 1990s. [30] [33] Perrault was serving in the Air National Guard when the abuse took place. [25]
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
The deadline is 11:59 p.m. Sept. 30, 2023, for veterans who meet certain requirements: — Veterans who deployed to a combat zone, even if they weren't in combat. New VA PACT Act deadline set for ...
Pentagon officials calculated that, if adopted in full by the nine-member BRAC Commission, the recommendations would have saved almost $50 billion over 20 years. The BRAC Commission (officially known as the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission) disputed this claim, pointing out what it considered to be significant flaws in the Department's methodology.
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The 317th Operations Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last stationed at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina as part of Air Mobility Command.It was activated in 1992 during the Air Force's Objective Wing reorganization, and inactivated the following year when all Air Force units at Pope were assigned to the 23d Wing.
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.