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C-17 Globemaster III: Active 4th Airlift Squadron: McChord AFB: Fighting Fourth: C-17 Globemaster III: Active 6th Airlift Squadron: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst: Bully Beef Express: C-17 Globemaster III: Active 7th Airlift Squadron: McChord AFB: Willing & Able: C-17 Globemaster III: Active 8th Airlift Squadron: McChord AFB: Workhorses: C-17 ...
C-17 Globemaster III: 106th Rescue Wing: Francis S. Gabreski ANGB, Westhampton Beach, New York: ACC: HH-60G Pave Hawk. HC-130J Combat King II. 107th Attack Wing: Niagara Falls ARS, Niagara Falls, New York: ACC: MQ-9 Reaper: 108th Wing: JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey: AMC: KC-46 Pegasus. C-32B Gatekeeper. 109th Airlift Wing: Stratton ANGB ...
Fort Smith Regional Airport / Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Arkansas: ACC: MQ-9 Reaper / Prior manned flying mission (1st iteration) terminated in 2007 due to BRAC; former F-16C/D fighter squadron; latest manned flying mission (2nd iteration) terminated in 2014 pursuant to 2013 NDAA; former A-10C fighter squadron; Loss of A-10s part of a since discontinued USAF effort to retire all A-10 ...
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". [4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.
The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) between the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster and the Douglas C-124 ...
Base Aircraft Tail Code 64th Aggressor Squadron: Gomers [5] Air Combat Command: United States Air Force Warfare Center: 57 WG: 15 January 1941 Nellis AFB, Nevada: F-16C/D [6] WA: 65th Aggressor Squadron: Air Combat Command: United States Air Force Warfare Center: 57 WG: 15 January 1941 Nellis AFB, Nevada [7] F-35A [8] WA: 706th Aggressor ...
The 445th Airlift Wing flies the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, which is capable of delivering troops and cargo to main operating bases or forward operating bases. [1]Led by Colonel Douglas A. Perry Jr., the mission of the 445th Airlift Wing is to provide strategic transport of personnel and equipment worldwide and to provide aeromedical evacuation.