Active Base
A 3,500-acre supply and repair center for the Marine Corps' East Coast and Atlantic Ocean operations. Employing over 4,000 people, the installation is equivalent in many respects to the West Coast's Barstow Marine Corps Logistics Base, near Barstow, CA. In addition to supporting Marine Corps bases...
An airlift and refueling Air Force Base, with a training program for the same. Flies big transport aircraft, such as the C-5 and C-141, and the KC-135 tanker. Located on 4,113 acres at the southwest corner of Oklahoma, the base has around 4,000 employees.
Andrews serves primarily as a VIP airport, flying heads of state into and out of the Washington DC area, using helicopters, large jetliners, and everything in between. It is home of Air Force One, the president's personal air shuttle. Related to this function is a medical evacuation unit, a small...
One of the major bomber bases in the country, and one of only two bases with B-52's (the other is Minot AFB, ND). Barksdale is the only complete B-52 crew training center for the country. The base covers 22,000 acres. Has a backup command center for the former Strategic Air Command headquarters at...
The Barstow Marine Corps Logistics Base serves as a storage, distribution and maintenance depot for Marine Corps facilities in the Pacific area and western portions of the United States. Equipment, weapons and supplies are warehoused, repaired, remanufactured and redistributed at this active base,...
The Barstow Marine Corps Logistics Base serves as a storage, distribution and maintenance depot for Marine Corps facilities in the Pacific area and western portions of the United States. Equipment, weapons and supplies are warehoused, repaired, remanufactured and redistributed at this active base,...
Beale AFB is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft base. Located in the Sacramento Valley, it is home to the only stateside reconnaissance wing, which recently flew the SR-71 Blackbird and still flies the nation's fleet of U2 spy planes. Beale is also one of four U.S. locations for the Phased...
A Marine Corps fighter jet base, called "Fightertown," flying F-18 attack aircraft. With 6,900 acres, it employs around 4,000 people. The Air Station also operates at the 5,200-acre Townsend Bombing Range, in Georgia, and in military airspace over the ocean. The Marine Corps' Parris Island Base is...
A large Marine Corps base, surrounding the estuary of the New River, on the coast of North Carolina. The 246-square-mile (153,439 acre) installation contains live fire ranges, maneuver areas, landing zones, and parachute drop training areas. Home and training base for Marine Corps Expeditionary...
Cannon Air Force Base, located in Clovis, in eastern New Mexico, is a 4,000 acre base with the usual housing, hangars, and runways. It has a work force around 3,000, and is home to a major Special Operations Unit of the Air Force, involved in unmanned aerial vehicle use and training. The Melrose...
This Air Force Base covers 3,772 acres, and is one of three major airlift installations on the East Coast, flying military personnel and equipment to destinations all over the world using C-17s and other large cargo aircraft. Home to over 6,000 military and civilian personnel. It has an auxiliary...
Cherry Point is the largest Marine Corps Air Station in the nation, and is located on 11,700 acres on the coast of North Carolina, surrounded by the Crotan National Forest. In addition to being a major flight training facility, the base is home to a naval aviation logistics and supply depot. 16,000...
Training base for Air Force pilots, on 4,000 acres near Columbus. Basic jet flight training, using primarily Cessna T-37s, and Northrop T-38s. Employs around 3,000 military and civilians.
The West Coast hub for amphibious Naval operations, and host to tenant units, such as the Naval Special Warfare Command and the expeditionary Warfare Training Group. About 5,000 people work at the base, which hosts around 7,000 transient personnel each day as well.
The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan operates the largest aircraft "junkyard" in the world, a 2,600-acre site with over 4,500 military aircraft. Some are stored as part of a mothball fleet, while some perfectly good aircraft are destroyed to comply with arms reduction...
Adjacent to Lockheed Martin's largest aircraft plant in Marietta, Dobbins is now an Air Reserve base, flying (and training for) the C-130 aircraft that are manufactured next door at Lockheed. Also on site is the Atlanta Naval Air Station, with F-18 fighter jets and Cobra attack helicopters.
B-1B bomber base on 6,117 acres, located in west-central Texas, and employing more than 6,000 personnel. Also a major airlift base, flying C-130 transport aircraft.
Eglin is one of the Air Force's largest bases, and is a major test center for non-nuclear munitions. Located on the coast of the panhandle of Florida, the base covers 724 square miles of land, and has 97,963 miles of water ranges in the Gulf. Facilities include: a climatic laboratory, capable of...
El Centro Naval Air Facility serves primarily as a base for visiting units training in the surrounding range complex. It has a similar mission to that of Fallon Naval Air Station, in Nevada, and Key West Naval Air Station, in Florida. The 2,289 acre base, located at the western edge of the Imperial...
Ellsworth, located in western South Dakota, is one of only two B-1B bomber bases (the other is at Dyess AFB, TX). It was once a major intercontinental ballistic missile base, tending to the 150 silos in the area that contained Minuteman II missiles. As part of nuclear force reduction agreements,...
A refueling aircraft base on over 6,000 acres in eastern Washington State. Fairchild was a Strategic Air Command bomber base until 1994. Now only KC-135 tanker aircraft are kept here. But with around 70 of the planes, this is said to be the largest refueling base in the world. During WWII it was a...
Fallon Naval Air Station (NAS), located near Fallon, Nevada, is a growing military facility that trains navy pilots both on the ground and in the air. The NAS consists of six separate secured areas located within 60 miles of each other. The principal facility is the Main Base, where most of the 2,...
These 182,000 acres of wooded and muddied ground are training and maneuver areas for the infantry. One of the busiest military bases in the country, 25,000 people work full time at this base, which accomodates thousands of trainees every day. Also located here is the School of the Americas, which...
Fort Bliss is an artillery testing and training installation, and with 1,119,700 acres, one of the largest Army posts in the country. While the main post and cantonment area is located north of El Paso, most of the land crosses the state line into New Mexico, and is adjacent to White Sands Missile...
The largest military installation in the Northeast, Fort Dix covers 55 square miles in central New Jersey. The primary mission of the base is infantry training, for around 4,700 trainees at a time, supported by 2,400 military personnel. Fort Dix has an Air Force Base on its western edge - McGuire...
55,000-acre Army base, with almost 20,000 employees. Home of the Signal Corps, which is responsible for installation, operation, and maintenance of the Army's communications systems.
Major communications and intelligence center for the military. Located on 73,272 acres (114 square miles) in southern Arizona, Huachuca is home to units such as the Army Intelligence Center, the Army Information Systems Command, and the Joint Interoperability Test Command. More than 12,000 people...
In addition to being the home of the Bullion Depository, housing most of the nation's gold stocks, Fort Knox is a 110,000 acre Army training center, with a daytime population of over 30,000.
Army logistics reseseach and training center--"total asset visibility from factory to foxhole" is their motto--housed on 5,575 acres. Fort Lee has 7,500 employees. The installation is a mix of administrative and field test facilities.
Fort Lewis is a busy 86,176 acre Army base, located south of Tacoma. One of the nation's top maneuver installations, Fort Lewis employs over 24,600 people, making it the fourth largest employer in the state. First opened in World War One, the base expanded into the north areas (across the...