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The 99th Air Base Wing (99 ABW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command (ACC) and its ACC subordinate organization, the United States Air Force Warfare Center.[1]

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  1. 101 relations: Afrika Korps, Air Combat Command, Air Force Audit Agency, Algeria, Allied invasion of Sicily, Andersen Air Force Base, Army Service Forces, Banjul, Belém, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing EC-135, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Boise Airport, Boise, Idaho, Bulgaria, Cold War, Constantine, Algeria, Convair B-36 Peacemaker, Czechoslovakia, Debrecen, Eastern Oregon Regional Airport, Ellsworth Air Force Base, Fairchild Air Force Base, Fifteenth Air Force, Focșani, Foggia, Galați, Georgetown, Guyana, Guam, Iowa, Korean War, Larson Air Force Base, List of B-52 Units of the United States Air Force, MacDill Air Force Base, Marcianise Airfield, Marrakesh, Massachusetts, Messerschmitt, Navarin Airfield, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Ninth Air Force, Operation Dragoon, Operation Frantic, Operation Overlord, Orlando Executive Airport, Otis Air National Guard Base, Oudna Airfield, ... Expand index (51 more) »

  2. Air base wings of the United States Air Force
  3. Military units and formations in Nevada

Afrika Korps

The German Africa Corps (DAK), commonly known as Afrika Korps, was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African campaign of World War II.

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Air Combat Command

The Air Combat Command (ACC) is one of nine Major Commands (MAJCOMs) in the United States Air Force, reporting to Headquarters, United States Air Force (HAF) at the Pentagon.

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Air Force Audit Agency

The Air Force Audit Agency (AFAA) is a Field Operating Agency (FOA) of the United States Air Force that provides all levels of Air Force management with audit services and assesses Air Force financial stewardship and the accuracy of financial reporting.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Allied invasion of Sicily

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).

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Andersen Air Force Base

Andersen Air Force Base (Andersen AFB, AAFB) is a United States Air Force base located primarily within the village of Yigo in the United States territory of Guam.

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Army Service Forces

The Army Service Forces was one of the three autonomous components of the United States Army during World War II, the others being the Army Air Forces and Army Ground Forces, created on 9 March 1942.

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Banjul

Banjul ((US) and), officially the City of Banjul, is the capital of The Gambia.

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Belém

Belém (Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north.

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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC).

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.

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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.

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Boeing EC-135

The Boeing EC-135 is a retired family of command and control aircraft derived from the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter.

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Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner.

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Boise Airport

Boise Airport (Boise Air Terminal or Gowen Field) is a joint civil-military airport in the western United States in Idaho, south of downtown Boise in Ada County.

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Boise, Idaho

Boise (also) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Constantine, Algeria

Constantine (Qusanṭīnah), also spelled Qacentina or Kasantina, is the capital of Constantine Province in northeastern Algeria.

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Convair B-36 Peacemaker

The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a strategic bomber that was built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Debrecen

Debrecen (Debrezin; Debrecín) is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County.

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Eastern Oregon Regional Airport

Eastern Oregon Regional Airport (Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton) is a public airport three miles northwest of Pendleton, in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.

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Ellsworth Air Force Base

Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about northeast of Rapid City, South Dakota, just north of the town of Box Elder.

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Fairchild Air Force Base

Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base, located in the northwest United States in eastern Washington, approximately southwest of Spokane.

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Fifteenth Air Force

The Fifteenth Air Force (15 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC).

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Focșani

Focșani (Fokshan) is the capital city of Vrancea County in Romania on the banks the river Milcov, in the historical region of Moldavia.

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Foggia

Foggia (Fògge) is a city and comune (municipality) of Apulia, in Southern Italy, capital of the province of Foggia.

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Galați

Galați (also known by other alternative names) is the capital city of Galați County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in eastern Romania.

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Georgetown, Guyana

Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Larson Air Force Base

Larson Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located five miles (8 km) northwest of the central business district (CBD) of Moses Lake, in Grant County, Washington.

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List of B-52 Units of the United States Air Force

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been operational with the United States Air Force since 5 June 1955.

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MacDill Air Force Base

MacDill Air Force Base (MacDill AFB) is an active United States Air Force installation located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southwest of downtown Tampa, Florida.

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Marcianise Airfield

Marcianise Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in southeast Italy, which is located approximately 10 km north-northwest of Marcianise in the province of Caserta, Campania; about 32 km north-northwest of Naples.

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Marrakesh

Marrakesh or Marrakech (or; murrākuš) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Messerschmitt

Messerschmitt AG was a German share-ownership limited, aircraft manufacturing corporation named after its chief designer Willy Messerschmitt from mid-July 1938 onwards, and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, in particular the Bf 109 and Me 262.

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Navarin Airfield is a World War II military airfield in Algeria, located approximately 10 km from El Eulma in Sétif Province.

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Nellis Air Force Base

Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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Ninth Air Force

The Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is the Air Force Service Component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a joint Department of Defense combatant command responsible for U.S.

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Operation Dragoon

Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15August 1944.

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Operation Frantic

Operation Frantic was a series of seven shuttle bombing operations during World War II conducted by American aircraft based in Great Britain and southern Italy, which landed at three Soviet airfields in Ukraine.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Orlando Executive Airport

Orlando Executive Airport is a public airport three miles (6 km) east of downtown Orlando, in Orange County, Florida.

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Otis Air National Guard Base

Otis Air National Guard Base is an Air National Guard installation located within Joint Base Cape Cod, a military training facility located on the western portion of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Oudna Airfield

Oudna Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Tunisia, located approximately southwest of La Mohammedia, south-southwest of Tunis.

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Palm Beach International Airport

Palm Beach International Airport is a public airport in Palm Beach County, Florida, located just west of the city of West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, for which it serves as the primary airport.

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Po Valley

The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain (Pianura Padana, or Val Padana) is a major geographical feature of Northern Italy.

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Poltava

Poltava (Полтава) is a city located on the Vorskla River in Central Ukraine.

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Presidential Unit Citation (United States)

The Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), originally called the Distinguished Unit Citation, is awarded to units of the uniformed services of the United States, and those of allied countries, for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941 (the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of American involvement in World War II).

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Ramey Air Force Base

Ramey Air Force Base also known as Borinquen Field, is a former United States Air Force base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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Republic F-84F Thunderstreak

The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak was an American swept-wing turbojet-powered fighter-bomber.

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Richard C. Sanders

Richard Condie Sanders (August 19, 1915 – September 20, 1976) was the youngest general officer in the history of the United States Air Force.

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Robert C. Hinson

Robert C. Hinson is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Salina Regional Airport

Salina Regional Airport, formerly Salina Municipal Airport, is located in Salina, Kansas, United States.

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Salina, Kansas

Salina is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States.

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Sardinia

Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.

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Second Air Force

The Second Air Force (2 AF; 2d Air Force in 1942) is a USAF numbered air force responsible for conducting basic military and technical training for Air Force enlisted members and non-flying officers.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Sightline Media Group, formerly Gannett Government Media and Army Times Publishing Company, is a United States company that publishes newspapers, magazines, websites, and other publications about the U.S. and other militaries.

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Sioux City Air National Guard Base

Sioux City Air National Guard Base is an Iowa Air National Guard base, located at Sioux Gateway Airport It is located south-southeast of Sioux City, Iowa.

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Sioux Gateway Airport

Sioux Gateway Airport, also known as Brigadier General Bud Day Field, is a public and military use airport in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States.

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South Dakota

South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.

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Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces from 1946 to 1992.

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Strategic Training Route Complex

The Strategic Training Route Complex is a series of training routes operated by the United States Strategic Command where bomber aircraft are able to train using tactics for low-level flight.

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Third Air Force

The Third Air Force (Air Forces Europe) (3 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA).

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Tortorella Airfield

Tortorella Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy.

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Toulon

Toulon (Tolon, Touloun) is a city on the French Riviera and a large port on the Mediterranean coast, with a major naval base.

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Tunisia

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.

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Twelfth Air Force

The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC).

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Air Force Warfare Center

The United States Air Force Warfare Center (USAFWC) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, reports directly to Air Combat Command. 99th Air Base Wing and United States Air Force Warfare Center are military units and formations in Nevada.

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Walla Walla Regional Airport

Walla Walla Regional Airport is a public airport in Walla Walla County, Washington, in the western United States.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Westover Air Reserve Base

Westover Air Reserve Base is an Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) installation located in the Massachusetts communities of Chicopee and Ludlow, near the city of Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Wiener Neustadt

Wiener Neustadt (Weana Neistod) is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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111th Attack Wing

The 111th Attack Wing (111 ATKW) is a unit of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, headquartered at Biddle Air National Guard Base in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

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12th Air Division

The 12th Air Division an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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19th Air Division

The 19th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force formation.

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25th Space Range Squadron

The 25th Space Range Squadron is a squadron of the United States Space Force.

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346th Test Squadron

The 346th Test Squadron is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 318th Cyberspace Operations Group at Joint Base San Antonio–Lackland, Texas.

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347th Bombardment Squadron

The 347th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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348th Reconnaissance Squadron

The 348th Reconnaissance Squadron is an active United States Air Force squadron, assigned to the 319th Operations Group.

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3rd Air Division

The 3rd Air Division (3d AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization.

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416th Flight Test Squadron

The 416th Flight Test Squadron is a United States Air Force squadron.

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45th Air Division

The 45th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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57th Air Division

The 57th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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5th Air Division

The 5th Air Division (5th AD) is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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71st Flying Training Wing

The 71st Flying Training Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Education and Training Command.

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817th Air Division

The 817th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization.

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91st Cyberspace Operations Squadron

The 91st Cyberspace Operations Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit, currently assigned to the 67th Cyberspace Wing at Kelly Annex, part of Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

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99th Air Refueling Squadron

The 99th Air Refueling Squadron is part of the 6th Air Mobility Wing at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, but is stationed at Birmingham Air National Guard Base, Alabama.

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See also

Air base wings of the United States Air Force

Military units and formations in Nevada

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99th_Air_Base_Wing

Also known as 99 ABW, 99th Bombardment Group, 99th Bombardment Wing, 99th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, 99th Strategic Weapons Wing, 99th Tactics and Training Wing, 99th Wing, Strategic Weapons Wing.

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