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Re-designated: Air Force Military Personnel Center, 1 January 1986 Re-designated: Air Force Personnel Center, 1 October 1995 – present. Community College of the Air Force, 1 April 1972 – 15 January 1977; 12th Flying Training Wing, 1 May 1972 – present; Nineteenth Air Force, 1 July 1993 – 13 July 2012; 1 October 2014 – present
Lackland Air Force Base (IATA: SKF, ICAO: KSKF, FAA LID: SKF) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located in Bexar County, Texas, United States.The base is under the jurisdiction of the 802d Mission Support Group, Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and an enclave of the city of San Antonio.
The Indian Air Force currently operates seven Air Commands. Each command is headed by an Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the rank of Air Marshal. The Air Force currently has over 60 air stations all over India. These are grouped into seven commands: Western Air Command at New Delhi, Delhi. Eastern Air Command at Shillong, Meghalaya.
Plattsburgh Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) base covering 3,447 acres (13.7 km²) in the extreme northeast corner of New York, located on the western shore of Lake Champlain opposite Burlington, Vermont, in the town of Plattsburgh, New York.
Over 5,200 active duty Air Force, Air National Guard, and tenant organization military and civilian employees work on Fairchild, making the base the largest employer in Eastern Washington. Fairchild's annual economic impact on the Spokane community is approximately $427 million, constituting 13 percent of the local economy. [63]
Maxwell Field was renamed Maxwell Air Force Base in September 1947 when the Air Force was created. [3] In 1992, the 3800th Air Base Wing (3800 ABW) ...
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [5] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the second independent air force in the world after the Finnish Air Force [6] merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [7]
In addition to the ATC transport units, elements of the Tenth Air Force 380th Bombardment Group, 375th Bombardment Squadron operated B-24 Liberators from the airfield, flying long range bombardment missions into Burma, south China, Thailand and well as French Indochina . A total of 8 B-24s were lost.