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The installation was renamed Patrick Air Force Base in August 1950. From 1966 to 1975, the Space Coast was the second most visited spot by VIPs, after Washington, DC, due to the Space Program. A protocol officer was assigned to Patrick to coordinate these visits, about three weekly, consisting of 10 to 150 people.
The installation's namesake, Major George Moody (1908–1941), was a U.S. Army Air Corps test pilot who died on 5 May 1941 in a crash of the prototype Beech Model 25 twin-engine trainer aircraft on its first test flight in Wichita, Kansas. [5] The Model 25 eventually became the AT-10 "Wichita", flown extensively at Moody Field during WWII.
Bergstrom Air Force Base. / 30.19444°N 97.67000°W / 30.19444; -97.67000. Bergstrom Air Force Base (1942–1993) was located seven miles southeast of Austin, Texas. In its later years it was a major base for the United States Air Force (USAF) RF-4C Phantom reconnaissance fighter fleet.
McCoy AFB (1940–1947, 1951–1975) is a former U.S. Air Force installation located 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Orlando, Florida. It was a training base during World War II. From 1951 to 1975, it was a frontline Strategic Air Command (SAC) base during the Cold War and Vietnam War. It was Orlando's biggest employer and economic backbone prior ...
e. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ( CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force 's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida . Headquartered at the nearby Patrick Space Force Base, the station is the primary launch site for the Space Force's Eastern Range [5] with three launch pads currently ...
Pease Air National Guard Base is a New Hampshire Air National Guard base located at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease in New Hampshire.It occupies a portion of what was once Pease Air Force Base, a former Strategic Air Command facility with a base-related population of 10,000 and which was home to the 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW) flying the General Dynamics FB-111A.
Erding Air Base. Turned over to West German Air Force, 1960. Remained in occasional use by USAFE until 1989. Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base. Turned over to West German Air Force, 1957. Giebelstadt Air Base. Turned over to United States Army, 1968. Hahn Air Base (Closed 1994) Landsberg Air Base.
The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005. It was the fifth Base Realignment and Closure ("BRAC") proposal generated since the process was created in 1988. It recommended closing 22 major United States military bases and the "realignment" (either ...