Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas
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The runways of Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo are used for parking vehicles, or not at all anymore, as the base’s mission is now primarily intelligence training. A few thousand students are trained annually in cryptology, linguistics, and intelligence imagery. Goodfellow is the home of the Air Force's firefighters school, too, and a large pad in the middle of the former runway complex is full of training props and aircraft, now landlocked here. Goodfellow was the base for operating the PAVE PAWS early-warning and space tracking station at the Eldorado Air Force Station, 35 miles south, until it closed a few years ago.