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The installation was renamed as Homestead Air Force Base on 1 February 1955 and the 379th Bombardment Wing (379 BMW) was activated at Homestead AFB on 1 November 1955. The 379 BMW replaced the 4276th Air Base Squadron, the latter unit having overseen the reconstruction of the base, and spent the next few months becoming organized and manned.
The original Homestead Air Force Base was once located several miles to the northeast of Homestead, but due to annexation of formerly unincorporated land immediately to the east and northeast of the original city limits during the late-1990s the city and the far southwestern perimeter of the (now) Homestead Air Reserve Base share a common ...
Homestead Air Force Base: Homestead: Florida: 1994 Redesignated as Homestead Air Reserve Base: Hondo Air Base: Hondo: Texas: 1958 Closed Horsham Air National Guard Station: Horsham Township: Pennsylvania: 2021 Redesignated as Biddle Air National Guard Base: Hunter Air Force Base: Savannah: Georgia: 1967 Realigned to the US Army as Hunter Army ...
Homestead Base is located 27 miles (43 km) southwest of downtown Miami at It is bordered to the southwest by the city of Homestead . According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 4.3 square miles (11 km 2 ), of which 0.1 square miles (0.3 km 2 ), or 2.37%, are water.
Inactivated in 1976; Beale AFB became a SAC Strategic Recon base for SR-71 and U-2 operations. 19th Bombardment Wing (Heavy) Homestead AFB, Florida (1962–1968) Robins AFB, Georgia (1968–1983) B-52H, 1962–1968; B-52G, 1968–1983 28th Bombardment Squadron (B-52G a/c from 781st BS, 7/68) Became 19th Air Refueling Wing in 1983
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By the late 1960s, the State Road was realigned to Moody Drive to provide increased access to the base's two northern entrance gates as the increasing intensity of the Cold War and the rise to power of Fidel Castro in nearby Cuba amplified the importance of Homestead Air Force Base to the national security of the United States. The eastern gate ...
Alaskan Air Command had an Arctic Survival School at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska and Tactical Air Command operated a Water Survival School at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. In April 1971, these schools were brought under one hand, and the 3636th CCTG was upgraded in status to the 3636th Combat Crew Training Wing.