Military bases, one guide each

Know the base before you report

Each guide covers one installation: the gate and check-in, housing, medical care, schools and the numbers to call, with a link to every official page it rests on.

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  1. Tinker Air Force Base

    Tinker Air Force Base is in Midwest City, Oklahoma, about five miles east of downtown Oklahoma City, south of I-40, and its population is about 30,000 on workdays, according to the Tinker MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview. The 72d Air Base Wing provides installation support to Team Tinker. "THERE IS NO LODGING ON BASE", the check-in page says.

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  2. Spangdahlem Air Base

    Spangdahlem Air Base, in Germany's Eifel region near Trier, is home to the 52nd Fighter Wing, which "maintains, deploys, and employs F-16CM Fighting Falcons in support of NATO and the national defense directives", according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for Spangdahlem. The base calls itself the "Home of the Sabers".

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  3. Sheppard Air Force Base

    "Sheppard Air Force Base is one of the most diversified training installations in Air Education and Training Command", according to the Sheppard overview on MilitaryINSTALLATIONS. The overview describes two wings. The 82nd Training Wing conducts technical training for Airmen and other service members, with programs run by the 82nd, 782nd and 982nd Training Groups. The 80th Flying Training Wing operates the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program, where instructors and students from the United States and 14 NATO partner nations train together. The base is in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the field was named for Senator Morris E. Sheppard, former chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee.

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  4. Shaw Air Force Base

    "The 20th Fighter Wing is the only SEAD, or 'Wild Weasel', wing in the continental United States and the largest F-16 combat wing in the United States Air Force", according to the Shaw overview on MilitaryINSTALLATIONS. The overview says the base was established in 1941 on the outskirts of Sumter, South Carolina, to train pilots for World War II, and was named after Sumter native Ervin Shaw. The base operator is 803-895-1110.

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  5. Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

    "The 4th Fighter Wing is the host unit at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and accomplishes its training and operational missions with F-15E Strike Eagles", according to the Seymour Johnson MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page. Two of the wing's four fighter squadrons are operational units that can deploy worldwide on short notice, and the other two train aircrews. The Seymour Johnson overview says the field was named after Goldsboro native and naval aviator Lt. Seymour Johnson and was first activated in June 1942. The base is in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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  6. Scott Air Force Base

    "The primary mission of Scott Air Force Base is global mobility", according to the Scott MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page, which says the installation provides United States aeromedical evacuation capabilities, flies C-21 operational support airlift and operates KC-135 air refueling missions. The host unit is the 375th Air Mobility Wing, "AMC's Showcase Wing", which has managed the domestic aeromedical evacuation system since 1975. The Scott overview lists mission partners including Air Mobility Command, U.S. Transportation Command, the Cyberspace Capabilities Center, the 635th Supply Chain Operations Wing, the Reserve 932nd Airlift Wing, the Air National Guard's 126th Air Refueling Wing and the Defense Information Systems Agency. Scott is in St. Clair County, Illinois, part of the Metro East region of Greater St. Louis.

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  7. Schriever Space Force Base

    Schriever Space Force Base, in El Paso County about 10 miles east of Colorado Springs at 6,237 feet, is home to more than 8,000 military and civilian employees, and "Schriever SFB is now the home of Space Base Delta 41", according to the Schriever MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview. The base was renamed Schriever Space Force Base in July 2021. There is no lodging on Schriever, and services Schriever does not offer are provided by Peterson Space Force Base, "a full service base ten miles down the road", the installation page says.

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  8. Schofield Barracks

    Schofield Barracks, on Oahu, is part of U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii and home to the 25th Infantry Division, which "traces its lineage to the Hawaiian Division, which has defended Hawaii since 1921", according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview of USAG Hawaii. The overview calls Hawaii's cost of living "among the highest in the nation."

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  9. Robins Air Force Base

    "Robins Air Force Base is home to over 50 mission partners, covering five major commands and three wings", according to the Robins MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page. "It is the largest single-site industrial complex in Georgia, employing a workforce of almost 22,000 civilians, contractors and military members." The host organization is the 78th Air Base Wing, and the base is also home to Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command and the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, which performs depot-level maintenance and repairs on Air Force equipment and weapons systems.

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  10. Ramstein Air Base

    Ramstein Air Base is a U.S. Air Force base in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and part of the Kaiserslautern Military Community, which the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview of Ramstein calls "the largest American community outside of the United States." The 86th Airlift Wing is based there.

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  11. RAF Mildenhall

    RAF Mildenhall, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England, is host to the 100th Air Refueling Wing, which the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for Mildenhall calls "the only permanent U.S. air refueling wing in the European theater", activated there on Feb. 1, 1992. The same page quotes the base's description of what sets it apart: units from four major commands, Air Combat Command, Air Force Special Operations Command, Air Mobility Command and U.S. Air Forces in Europe.

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  12. RAF Lakenheath

    RAF Lakenheath, near Brandon in Suffolk, England, is home to the 48th Fighter Wing, which the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for Lakenheath describes as "USAFE's only F-35/F-15 fighter wing", flying the F-35A and F-15E. Lakenheath is also the hub for its neighbors: one housing office serves RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, the 48th Medical Group runs RAF Lakenheath Hospital, and the school complex spans Lakenheath and RAF Feltwell. Base operator: +44-1638-521110, DSN 314-226-1110.

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  13. RAF Fairford

    RAF Fairford, in England, is home to the 420th Air Base Squadron, one of the seven squadrons of the 422nd Air Base Group headquartered at RAF Croughton, according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for RAF Croughton and RAF Fairford. MilitaryINSTALLATIONS covers Fairford on the same pages as Croughton, so much of what a family needs to know is shared with the RAF Croughton guide. The 501st Combat Support Wing, the 422nd's parent wing, describes its mission as including "the maintenance and operation of a bomber forward operating location", per the RAF Alconbury MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page.

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  14. RAF Croughton

    RAF Croughton, in Northamptonshire, England, is home to the 422nd Air Base Group, which "develops combat-ready professional Airmen, delivers worldwide communications, enables global strike operations, and supports mission partners", according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for RAF Croughton and RAF Fairford. The group has seven squadrons: the 422nd Force Support, Civil Engineer, Communications, Medical and Security Forces Squadrons at Croughton, the 420th Munitions Squadron at RAF Welford and the 420th Air Base Squadron at RAF Fairford.

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  15. RAF Alconbury

    RAF Alconbury, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England, is the headquarters of the 501st Combat Support Wing and home to the 423rd Air Base Group; MilitaryINSTALLATIONS pairs it with nearby RAF Molesworth as "RAF Alconbury, RAF Molesworth". According to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for Alconbury-Molesworth, the 501st provides combat support for intelligence, communications and global strike operations, including a bomber forward operating location, theater munitions storage and support for theater intelligence operations.

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  16. Presidio of Monterey

    The Presidio of Monterey is in the city of Monterey on the California coast, home to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, and the majority of students and permanent party military personnel live in military housing about 8 miles away at the Ord Military Community, on part of the former Fort Ord, according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview of the Presidio.

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  17. Pope Army Airfield

    "Due to the Base Realignment and Closure which took effect 01 March 2011, Pope Army Airfield has realigned with Fort Bragg", the Pope Army Airfield MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page says, and it describes Pope as Fort Bragg's third airfield, alongside Simmons and Mackall Army Airfields, supporting combat training and rapid contingency deployments of the post's airborne and special operations communities. Because Pope sits inside Fort Bragg, the post's housing, schools and hospital are covered in our Fort Bragg guide to Corvias housing, Womack clinics and schools; this page covers what is specific to the airfield and its Air Force units.

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  18. Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base)

    Pituffik Space Base, the U.S. military's northernmost installation, sits in a coastal valley in northwestern Greenland, 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 947 miles south of the North Pole, a 2023 Army Corps of Engineers article on DVIDS says. It was renamed from Thule Air Base in a ceremony on April 6, 2023, presided over by the Chief of Space Operations, according to the Space Force's DVIDS release on the renaming. Pituffik, pronounced bee-doo-FEEK, is the traditional Greenlandic name of the region, and the release says the new name recognizes Greenlandic cultural heritage and the base's role in the U.S. Space Force.

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  19. Peterson Space Force Base

    Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs is the home of Space Base Delta 1, which "enables U.S. Space Force operations for 4 of the USSF Space Deltas and more than 114 other mission partners across 17 world-wide operating locations", according to the Peterson MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page. The Visitor's Center at 1334 W. Stewart Ave. is open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. (719-556-6660). The Main Gate is open 24/7, while the East Gate and the North Gate have limited hours, and the North Gate is closed on weekends and holidays, the page adds.

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  20. Patrick Space Force Base

    "Space Launch Delta 45, collocated at Patrick SFB and Cape Canaveral SFS, provides activities and resources for safety of flight, range instrumentation, infrastructure, and scheduling required to support and assure space and ballistic launches, and other operations", according to the Patrick MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page. The delta manages space launch operations from the Eastern Range. The main number listed for Space Launch Delta 45 is 321-494-1110.

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  21. Osan Air Base

    Osan Air Base, in Pyeongtaek, sits 48 miles south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone and is home to the "Mustangs" of the 51st Fighter Wing and 24 tenant units, including Seventh Air Force, according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for Osan. The page describes the 51st as "the most forward deployed permanently-based wing in the Air Force" and asks every inbound member to be mission-focused before leaving the losing base.

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  22. Offutt Air Force Base

    Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is host to the 55th Wing, "the largest wing in Air Combat Command and the second largest in the Air Force", and is also home to U.S. Strategic Command, the 557th Weather Wing, the 95th Wing and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency CONUS Annex, according to the Offutt MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page. Aircraft at Offutt include the RC-135V/W Rivet Joint, the E-4B National Airborne Operations Center and the Navy's E-6B Mercury. The base is in an area subject to severe seasonal weather, the installation page notes: wind chill warnings, ice, sleet and snow in winter, and thunderstorms with the potential for tornadoes in spring, summer and fall. If you arrive by car in winter, the page asks that your vehicle be winterized, and the Snow and Information line for base closures is 402-232-COLD (2653).

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  23. Nellis Air Force Base

    Nellis Air Force Base, part of Air Combat Command, is about eight miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada; the base covers more than 14,000 acres, while Nellis and its restricted ranges occupy about 5,000 square miles, according to the Nellis MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page. Nellis "is a major focal point for advanced combat aviation training", and its workforce of about 14,914 military members, civilians and contractors makes it one of the largest single employers in Southern Nevada. The Nellis overview names housing as the biggest factor in Las Vegas's higher cost of living and, as listed in October 2026, puts the median rental price at $2,050.

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  24. Naval Support Activity Naples

    Naval Support Activity Naples has three locations, according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview of NSA Naples: Capodichino, in Naples near the international airport; the Support Site in Gricignano di Aversa, north of Naples; and Gaeta, approximately 80 km from Naples. Commands listed on the NSA Naples major units page include U.S. 6th Fleet, Allied Joint Force Command Naples, NAVFAC Europe Africa Central and Sealift Logistics Command Europe. The Naval Hospital, Naples Middle/High School and on-base family quarters are at the Support Site.

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  25. Naval Support Activity Gaeta

    Gaeta is a department of Naval Support Activity Naples, which MilitaryINSTALLATIONS lists as "Naval Support Activity Naples Department Gaeta", on the waterfront at Lungomare Caboto, Molo S. Antonio. Its mission on the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page for Gaeta is to provide force protection, administrative and logistical support to "the Sixth Fleet Flagship USS Mount Whitney and their families", smaller commands in the Lazio province, and visiting ships. The page also cautions that Gaeta "has completed a major transformation in recent times" and that changes may still occur, so confirm the details below with your sponsor.

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