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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.
Homestead AFB, Florida (1 July 1968 – 1 June 1992) 31st Fighter Wing (1970–1992) Hurlburt Field, Florida (1 February 1955 – 26 June 1958, 1 July 1962 – 1 June 1992) 17th Air Base Group (1955–1958) 4420th Combat Support Group (1962–1972) 1st Air Commando/Special Operations Wing (1962–1966, 1972–1992) Langley AFB, Virginia
Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard Station is used to name installations, typically but not exclusively without a flying mission, that are operated by a unit of at least squadron size, that does not otherwise meet the criteria of being a base. Air Force Auxiliary Airfield is used if the ...
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 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.
The 93d Fighter Squadron, nicknamed the Makos, is part of the Air Force Reserve Command's 482d Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida.Originally formed in June 1943 as the 93d Troop Carrier Squadron, the squadron participated on the Western Front flying Douglas C-47 Skytrains dropping paratroopers and releasing gliders during Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden and the ...
The 367th Fighter Squadron is a "reverse" associate United States Air Force unit, stationed at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, where it operates and maintains the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 482d Fighter Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command. Its parent is the 495th Fighter Group at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.
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