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.

  • 180 base guides
  • 1,387 sources linked

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  1. Beale Air Force Base

    "The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is equipped with the nation's only fleet of U-2 Dragon Ladies." The wing is Beale's host organization, aligned under 16th Air Force and Air Combat Command, according to the Beale MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page. The same page lists the other partners on base: the 548th Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Group, the 7th Space Warning Squadron, the 12th Reconnaissance Squadron, Reserve Command's 940th Air Refueling Wing and the California Air National Guard's 195th Wing.

    6 sections 8 sources 4 min read

  2. Barksdale Air Force Base

    Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, is home to Air Force Global Strike Command, the "Mighty Eighth" Air Force and the host 2d Bomb Wing, which flies the B-52 Stratofortress, along with the Air Force Reserve's 307th Wing, also a B-52 unit, and about 50 associate units, according to the Barksdale MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page.

    5 sections 6 sources 2 min read

  3. Aviano Air Base

    Aviano Air Base sits at the foot of the Pre-Alps in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy, approximately 50 miles north of Venice and 9 miles from Pordenone, according to the MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview of Aviano. It is home to the 31st Fighter Wing, whose mission on the Aviano MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page is to "Secure the Base, Generate Combat Airpower and be Ready to Deploy & Fight from Home". Aviano has no on-base family housing, so families live off base, in government-leased units only if the wing commander designates them key and essential, per the housing page.

    8 sections 12 sources 5 min read

  4. Arnold Air Force Base

    Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, is home of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC), which the Arnold overview on MilitaryINSTALLATIONS describes as "an Air Force Materiel Command facility" operating "68 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket motor and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges and other specialized units." Its stated mission: "Test and evaluate systems to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy." Of the 3,045 personnel the overview counts for Fiscal Year 2026, 40 were active-duty military, 7 were Air Force Reserve and National Guard, and 2,537 were contractor and subcontractor employees.

    6 sections 6 sources 3 min read

  5. Aberdeen Proving Ground

    "Our workforce has more than 21,000 military, civilian and contractor employees responsible for numerous technical achievements across a broad spectrum of military capabilities", the Aberdeen Proving Ground MilitaryINSTALLATIONS page says. APG, in Harford County, Maryland, was established in 1917, when the Army needed a new site for testing war munitions after entering World War I. Its major units list includes the 20th CBRNE Command, CECOM, the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, the Army Evaluation Center, Army Contracting Command, the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense. The main number is 410-278-5201.

    6 sections 7 sources 3 min read