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The facility was renamed Vandenberg Air Force Base on 4 October 1958 in honor of General Hoyt Vandenberg, the Air Force's second Chief of Staff. [3] The final acquisition of 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) of land for the base occurred in 1966 to accommodate the construction of Space Launch Complex 6 for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program. With the ...
This new station was planned to be a Long Range Radar Site with a GATR facility. It was programmed to be a split site with the headquarters of the 669th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron and dormitories located on Oak Mountain, about 18 miles south of Vandenberg AFB. The site was activated on 23 June 1962 during the construction period, and ...
Initially established on 1 August 1998, the 614th Space Operations Group conducted space operations as a part of Air Force Space Command's 14th Air Force. [1] On 24 May 2007 it was redesignated as the 614th Air and Space Operations Center in alignment with the Component-Numbered Air Force structure.
March ARB, California (1997–2000) [3] Ontario ANGS, California (1984–1997) [4] Compton, California (1948–1951) as the 148th Aircraft Control and Warming Squadron. Oklahoma Air Force Station, OK (1 May 1951 – 31 January 1953) Oklahoma Air Force Station, OK. Compton ANG Station, CA (1953–1960) as 148th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron.
Solvang (/ ˈ s ɒ l v æ ŋ /; [8] Danish for "sunny field") is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.Located in the Santa Ynez Valley, the population was 6,126 at the 2020 census, up from 5,245 at the 2010 census.
Vandenberg Space Force Base, located at Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County, California, is home to the United States' Western Range and is considered the second most active rocket range and spaceport in the country (following Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island in Florida).
The United States Air Force's 9th Combat Operations Squadron is an Air Force Reserve Command space operations unit located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.The 9th augments the 614th Air and Space Operations Center in operating the Joint Space Operations Center, performing combat operations, plans, strategy and intelligence assessments that enable the Commander, Joint Functional ...
The Lompoc Hills are a low mountain range in the Transverse Ranges, near the coast and Lompoc in western Santa Barbara County, California. [1] Part of the range is located within the Vandenberg Air Force Base.