Nellis Air Force Base

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Nellis Air Force Base (" Nellis " colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada with military schools and more squadrons than any other USAF base. Nellis conducts air combat exercises such as Red Flag Exercises and close-range support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in the "Military Operations Area (MOA)", linked to the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). It also has the Joint-Air and Space Operations Center-Nellis.

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Description

The Nellis AFB mission of advanced combat training for combined strike forces is commonly carried out along with air and army units, Navy, Marine Corps and allied forces. The base also supports operations at the nearby Creech Air Force Base, the Tonopah Test Range and the Nevada National Security Site. The nellis ground system for range operations (eg, with callsign "Nellis Control") includes Computers and Computed Subsystem used to receive microwave signals from NTTR Ground-Based Stations from Communications Tracking and Subsystems > (TCS) for presentation on Nellis' Display and Debrief SubSystem (DDS).

Units

• 53d Testing and Evaluation Group, including the Test Squad and Evaluation 422d
• 57th Wing, including 57th Adversary Tactics Group, Thunderbirds Squadron, Weapons & amp; Rescue School, & amp; School Maintenance/Munitions School
• Air Wings Base 99
• Operation Group 505
• Group 926 (Air Force Reserve)
• Air Expeditionary Force Battle Lab
• Unmanned Space Flight Excellence System Center
• Nevada Test and Training Range

Geography

Nellis AFB covers approximately 11,300 acres (4,600 ha) in the northeast corner of the Las Vegas Valley, an alluvial basin in the Basin and Range Provinces. Since World War II, Nellis has had added territories, such as Area II in 1969, but still has some 7,000 hectares (2,800Ã, ha) of undeveloped space. One foundation of World War II was removed. Base has 3 areas (I, II, III). The United States Geological Survey mentions five different locations for the base: "Nellis Air Force Base", airfield, post office, Community College of Southern Nevada campus, and census-designated place (CDP).

Nellis Area I has airfields (2 runways and 300 ramps), recreation and shopping facilities, temporary dormitories, some family housing, "and most command and support structures", for example, Suter Hall for Red Flag. Nellis Area II northeast of the main base "at the foot of Mount Sunrise" (formerly US Navy Mead Base) has Nellis Gun Club, and 820th Red Horse Squadron. Nellis Area III is on the west of the main base with family housing, administration and industrial estate, and Federal Hospital Mike O'Callaghan, (the "unnamed town" underground is Sunrise Manor. ") Area III also includes 23.4 hectares (9.5 Ã, ha) ammunition reaction area (MRA XU741) which has World War II storage for small arms ammunition, fireworks and chemical bombs and which now includes 2 remaining World War II buildings (number 1039 & 1047 ), 5 modern iglo, & RV storage.

Place specified census

The Nellis Air Force Base CDP is an area of ​​3.1 m² (8.0 km ² ) set by the US Census Bureau at the US Census 2010. CDP areas including housing military families (eg, in Nellis Area I & amp; III), dormitories, and inns such as for temporary air space during Red Flag training. The CDP population includes a portion of the Nellis workforce of 12,000 military and civilian personnel.

In the 2000 census, there were 8,896 people, 2,873 households, and 2,146 families living on CDP. Population density is 2,895.9 people per square mile (1,118.8/km²). There are 3,040 housing units with an average density of 989.6 sq/sq, mi (382.3/km²). The gender ratio is 4813 men to 4083 women (3290: 2637 for those aged 18 and over). The median age was 24 years, and the distribution by age group was 33.4% under the age of 18 years, 19.7% from 18 to 24, 38.5% from 25 to 44, 7.1% from 45 to 64 , and 1.2% are 65 years of age or older.

The basic racial makeup is 68.5% White, 14.3% African American, 1.4% Native Americans, 5.0% Asian, 0.7% Pacific Islands, 4.9% of other races, and 5.2% % of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 11.7% of the population.

There were 2,873 households in which 52.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.5% were married couples living together, 7.7% had female unmarried households present, and 25.3% is not family. Of all households 17.9% were made up of individuals and 1.1% had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 2.91 and the average family size was 3.36.

The 2000 census's average income was $ 33,118 (household), $ 34,307 (family), $ 25,551 (male), & amp; $ 19,210 (female); and per capita income is $ 13,601. About 10.0% of families and 11.1% of the population are below the poverty line, including 15.4% of those under the age of 18 and 16.1% of those aged 65 and older.

Nellis AFB Complex

" Nellis AFB complex " refers to a group of southern Nevada military areas that are predominantly USAF and the Bureau of Land Management outside the base (eg, controlled by military units in Nellis). Complex area areas include Nellis AFB, Training and Range Training USAF Nevada, active part of the Northern Annex Small Arms Range of base, formerly used Site Defense covering 5,775 hectares (2,337 ha) (cleared in March 1972, returned to DoI), 13 BLM area of ​​5.7 hectares (2.3 ha) each leased for Patriot Radar/Communication Training, and other BLM sites "under Operation Area Military Operations (MOA)" area. Nellis AFB also rents space in the former Las Vegas AFS, and the environmental site of Tonopah Bombing Range (FUDS) is monitored by the EPA. The formerly used Defense Sites associated with regional military operations are Nye A, G, H, & amp; I; "Delamar Dry Lake Test Annex" and "Sunrise Mountain Machine Gun Range".

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History

After World War I, Nevada and other western country countries were surveyed by Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Sgt. William B. Whitefield for landing sites, and in "mid-1925, Air Service had information on nearly thirty-five landing sites, including over twenty-eight hundred makeshift landing sites, in the United States." Airfield 1929 (runway dirt, water well, and small operating hut) to the north of Las Vegas - operated by the Northwest Line of 1925 for the Air Mail Route (CAM) Route # 4, LA-to-SLC - used by Army Air Corps in the 1930s for training flights ('WA' tailcode aircraft reflect Western Air Express). After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the "board of the western site" had placed the southern Nevada region "near Tonopah, Nev" in April 1940 for military coverage, and in October 1940, Air Corps Major David Schlatter surveyed the southwestern United States for a field flying military. "Area 60 ÃÆ'â €" 90 miles in Tonopah was transferred to the War Department on 29 October 1940 "by Executive Order 8578.

McCarran Field

Renamed to McCarran Field in the mid-1930s, there was a "difficulty in securing the use of" airfields north of Las Vegas for the Nevada World War II Air Force.) McCarran Field was purchased on January 2, 1941 by Las Town Vegas, leased to the Army on January 5, and "signed" to the Quartermaster's Corps on January 25 - Military construction began in March 1941. The city's Federal Building became the May 1941 location of the 79th Airborne Association Fluid (5 staff staff commanding Lieutenant Colonel Martinus Stenseth), and a month later 5 NCO administrative plus other support personnel arrived. The WPA barracks in Las Vegas are used for enlisted men, and a motorcycle pool with 6 vintage and semi-trailer trucks is located next to the WPA barracks. Parts of the vehicle came from local service stations and gasoline and oil from the Civil Conservation Corps (Block 16 brothels in Las Vegas closed.) Permanent construction for a 3,000-person home barracks began in mid-1941, and on 7 December, 10 AT- 6 trainers Texas's advanced flight and 17 B-10 bombers are at the airport. Las Vegas Army Airfield

Las Vegas Army Airfield was activated and began flying training on December 20, 1941. Training firearms began in January 1942, with the guntruck platform in use in January and February. Many pieces of crushed aerial drones targeted trash the north side of the cannon slope, and can be seen in the city when the sun bounces off of them.

The first B-17 Flying Fortresses arrived in 1942 and enabled the training of 600 cannon students and 215 fellow pilots from the field every five weeks at the height of the war. Over 45,000 B-17 shooters trained; USAAF's training film The Rear Gunner was filmed at the airfield in 1943. The 82d Flying Training Wing (Flexible Gunnery) was activated at the base as one of the ten wings of the Air Force Air Force Training Command on August 23, 1943. On 1944, students cannon use B-17, B-24 Liberator and B-40 Flying Fortress fighter (for example by shooting the target drawn plane).

In March 1945, the base switched to the B-29 cannon training which included a manipulation trainer on the ground with a camera gun. The next population culminated with nearly 11,000 officers and enlisted men including more than 4,700 students. Flexible cannon training ended in September 1945, and the base became a demobilization center for physical separation of soldiers and final payments. The training course of navigator, bombardment, and radar operators planned for LVAAF even began at Mather Army Airfield in June 1946. AAF Training Command closed the LVAAF which resumed the temporary status of August 28, 1946 ("officially disabled in January 1947"). During planning for a separate air force, AAF Las Vegas was reactivated "August 30th 47 as Mather's installation sub", and transferred to USAF after the branch was made in September.

Las Vegas Air Force Base

Renamed Las Vegas Air Force Base on January 13, 1948 and designated as a sub installation of Williams AFB on April 1, Pilot Wing 3595 (Advanced Single-Engine) was established on December 22, 1948. Training begins in Las Vegas AFB on March 1, 1949 with 5 squadrons using the P-51 Mustang for a 6 month course (3,000 USAF pilots needed training in 1950). Gunnery Squadron The 3525 aircraft, which was activated on 11 February 1949, the base hosted the first USAF Gunnery Meeting on May 2, and ATC opened the LVAFB Gunnery Aircraft School on May 15, 1949.

Nellis AFB

Nellis Air Force Base was named on 30 April 1950, and on May 20, 1950 the dedication was attended by the family of Lieutenant Nellis. On July 1 the Air Force has directed ATC to accelerate the Korean War training for the new 95-wing Air Force. The first school opened at Nellis, and ATC redesigned the 3595 (Advanced Single-Engine) Pilot Training Wing as Training 3595 (Combat Crew) . On July 17, 1950, Nellis embarked on a replacement pilot training program to provide 115 FEAF F-51 Mustang pilots and 92 F-80 Shooting Star ready-combat pilots. Nellis advanced single machine pilot training was transferred to Alabama on 1 September 1950. Nellis received battle-bomber training, and ATC founded the USAF Crew Air Force School (Fighter) on November 14, 1950, equipped with the F-80 and early models of F-84C Thunderjets. On October 1st, the Nellis AFB's base management function was transferred from Williams AFB. In early 1951, ATC commissioned newly engineed aircraft and mechanical engineers to Nellis to study the maintenance of jet aircraft. The airfield was expanded from 1951-1954 with longer runways with jets, reconfigured tolls, and larger aircraft parking trajectories; and the World War II wooden structures were replaced with concrete and steel structures (eg, barracks and basic housing for married personnel). The first Wherry House was completed in 1954, with the updated Capehart houses completed in February 1960.

USAF Fighter Weapon School

The USAF Fighter Weapons School was set on January 1, 1954 from the squadron when the Air Crew School graduated from its final Crusade Training Class (the main School Arms mission was a cannon instructor training.) In the mid-1950s for a nuclear test Operation Teapot, 1 of 12 Nellis AFB based Commander Zones for public relations/public relations (weapons for other atomic tests stored at Nellis). Air Training Command suspended training at the Nellis arms training school in late 1956 due to the almost total failure of the Saber F-86 aircraft used at Nellis, and during 1958 ATC stopped its Fly Training and Technical Training.

Tactical Air Command

Nellis AFB was transferred to the Tactical Air Command on 1 February 1958, and the Nellis mission was diverted from the aircraft's initial qualification and cannon training to advanced advanced arms training. Immediately after transfer to TAC, the F-100C and F-100D entered the school inventory. The 3595th wing asset was redesigned as a 4520 Fighter Crew Training Group by TAC on 1 July 1958.

4520 Crew Work Crew Crew

The 4520th Combat Crew Training Wing was established from CCTG 4520 on May 1, 1961, and the Combat Crew training squadron was numbered back. The Combined Arms Squadron 4537 had commissioned the F-105D Thunderchiefs in March 1961, and the wing taught the veteran pilots in all phases of combat weapon work: air-to-air, rocket, conventional and nuclear bombardment, air filling, and combat navigation. The F-4 Phantom II Instructor Course began in mid-1965 and during the Vietnam War, experienced fighter pilots were used as Fighter Weaver instructors at Nellis. On January 1, 1966, the USAF Fighter Weapons School was activated at Nellis with the F-100, F-4 and F-105 divisions and on September 1, 1966, Fighter Weapons School and CCTW 4520 elements joined to activate the 4525 Fighter Weapons Wing.

USAF Tactical Weapon Hub

USAF Tactical Combat Weapon Center activated at Nellis AFB on January 1, 1966 (USAF Warfare Center after 15 November 2005) is the USAF authority to employ tactical combat weapons. The Center has developed, refined, co-ordinated, validated and tested concepts, doctrines, tactics, and combat procedures. The FWC also conducts operational and evaluation tests and prepares or monitors Air Force publications on work tactics, crew training, and aircrew shipments. It has a supervised course from the US Air Force Gun School, enemy tactical training, and Wild Weasel training, and other combat and tactical schools.

FWC oversees Red Flag operational training and other sustainable air exercises, such as Green Flag and Silver Flag Alpha. The center has also directed US Air Force Bomber and Tanker operations, the Labor School since 1992 and the Air Rescue Center since 1993. The USAF Air Demonstration Squadron with Thunderbirds US Air Force moved from Arizona to Nellis AFB in June 1956.

474th Fighter Wing Tactical

The 474th Tactical Fighter Wing was moved from New Mexico to Nellis AFB on January 20, 1968 and was the first USAF operational wing to be equipped with General Dynamics F-111--6 of F-111As departing Nellis for Vietnam at 15 March 1968 (Combat Lancer). Nellis provided a replacement for the missing 2 F-111s, and the F-111 was returned to the United States in November 1968. The 428th Tactical Combatron Squadron reached the IOC in the spring of 1968 with the F-111, and TFW was fully operational in July 1971. Lake Mead Base, the United States Navy arsenal 1953-6 of 6,999 acres (2,832 ha), became Area II of the Nellis AFB complex in September 1969.

The 430th TFS returned to 474 TFW Nellis on March 22, 1973 assuming the mission of a replacement training unit, while 428 and 429 were transferred to Mountain Home AFB on July 30, 1973. Post-war 474 missions were to train the combat-ready forces of aircrews and maintain rapid reaction capability to carry out combat attacks against enemy troops and facilities in times of crisis. In 1975, the 428th and 429th Tactical Combatron Squadrons were transferred to the wings with F-111As (moved to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, in August 1977) and the 474th Wing absorbed Phantom II F-4D aircraft, crew and sources power of the inactive Frigates Tactical Flight 4474 at Nellis in April 1977. Its wings were deactivated in September 1989, and the F-16As were transferred to the squadrons of the National Air Force and Air Force Forces.

57th Arms Weapon

The 57th Combat Arms wing was activated at Nellis on October 15, 1969 to replace 4525 FWW (Fighter Weapons Squadrons transferred to the 57th). The USAF Air Demonstration Squadron ("Thunderbirds") was commissioned to 57th in February 1974, and intelligence training united wings after March 1980. Redesigning 57th Tactical Wing Training in 1977, tactical tactics trained wings of fighter crews, conducting operational tests and evaluations, demonstrating tactical combat weapons systems, and developing combat tactics. The 5740th Task Force Combat Training Group (Red Flag) took over the operational control of the Red Flag drills in October 1979; and 57 developed a realistic combat training operation featuring enemy tactics, different air combat training, and electronic warfare.

Nellis' 4477th Tactical Evaluation Flight ("Red Eagles") operates the MiG-17, MiG-21 and MiG-23 at Tonopah Test Range Airport (late 1960s-c. 1990 ) to simulate fighting against US fighter aircraft. Named Peg Constant in 1980, operations assessed Soviet technology and developed enemy tactics for different air combat training. After completing the training, the Agresor pilots were assigned to the DACT squadron, one of whom was assigned to Nellis. During the 1970s, a Nellis northwest site evaluated the Soviet "Barlock" search radar to develop techniques to counter the Soviet air defense system.

The USAF Fighter Weapons School was reactivated on December 30, 1981 on the 57th and 66th Squadron Weapons 414 and 433d into "A-10", "F-4E" and "F-15A" divisions (414 are "Red Flag of Squadron Training "in 1996). The F2S 422d aircraft and personnel became the "F-16 Division" and the squadron symbol was diverted to the 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron. The FWS mission was expanded on June 15, 1993 to include all weapons of the Airborne Command (Division B-52 & B-1) and in 1995, rescue helicopter (HH-60 Division). RC-135 Rivet Joint and EC-130 Compass Call courses were also added to the CCO Division in 1995, as well as the Space Division in 1996 (UAVs in 2008).

In 1981, Gunsmoke gun guns were first held and the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing was reorganized as part of the formation of the School of Combat Weapons, for example, the 422d Test Squad and Evaluation for aircraft modifications was established on 30 December 1981 of the 422d Squadron Weapon fighter. In 1990, the 64th and 65th Tiger Combatron Squadron and the 4440th TFTG were weakened in 1990 at the end of the Cold War. In November 1991, the 57th organization of the USAF Destination Wing, the most comprehensive USAF reorganization plan since 1947, activated the 57th Operation Group for Nellis airfield operations and established the 57th Test Group.

Air Combat Command

Nellis was transferred to the Air Combat Command on 1 June 1992, at the end of the Cold War when the Tactical Air Command was disabled. The 57th wing was set on June 15, 1993 of the 57th Operation Group in conjunction with the introduction of the unmanned Predator RQ-1 and MQ-9 Reaper (UAV). The USAF Defense Force School was also established in 1993 for the HH-60 Pave Hawk flight. "In 1996, the AETC moved the Advanced Weapons Course from Nellis AFB to Kirtland AFB". The 98th Edge Wing was activated at Nellis on 29 October 2001 for Nellis Air Force Range control (FWC). After Detachment 13, 372d the Training Squadron opened the F/A-22 maintenance training facility on 29 November 2001, on January 14 2003 Nellis received the first production of the F-22A Raptor for the F-22 Force Development and Evaluation program and the School of Weapons (12 Raptors have been assigned to the 422d Test and Evaluation Squad in July 2008.)

The "Agressor" training was reactivated under the 57th Operational Group in 2003 and in 2006 Nellis had an Air Field Operations School. On May 1, 2007, the UAV reconnaissance element assigned to the 57th Operation Group was transferred to Wing 432. Detachment 1 of the Space Warfare Center was established at Nellis in 1996 after the "Nellis Combined Air Operations Center", the Warfare Center diverted the Nellis Air Force Range to the 98th Wing Range in 2001, and the nationwide Aviation Nation broadcast started at Nellis in 2002. The Nellis Solar Power Plant built April 23-December 2007 on the west side of Nellis was visited by President Barack Obama on May 27, 2009. In 2010 , The Operation Squadron 505 operates the Nellis Combined Air and Space Operation Center.

The main command set

• West Coast Air Corps Training Center, April 1941
• Airborne Flight Training Command, January 23, 1942 and subsequent appointments through Air Training Command, July 1 - December 31, 1946, August 30, 1947
• Tactical Air Command, July 1, 1958
• Air Combat Command, June 1, 1992 - now

Defined main unit

• The 79th Air Base Group, 7 July 1941

Base Base 70 and the Basic Air Squadron, c. August 14, 1942

82d Flying Training Wing (Flexible Gunnery) January 8, 1943 - June 16, 1946

• 3552 Pilot Wing Training, April 1, 1948 - July 1, 1958
• 4520 Wing Crew Wing Training, July 1, 1958 - September 1, 1966
• 4525 Fighter Weapons Wing, September 1, 1966 - October 15, 1969
• 474 Fighter Fighter Wing, January 20, 1968 - October 15, 1989
• 57th Wing (Various Determinations), August 22, 1969 - now
• Operation Support Wing 554, March 1, 1980 - November 1, 1995
• USAF Fighter Weapons School, January 1-September 1, 1966; December 30, 1981 (USAF Weapons School on June 15, 1993)
• 4477 Tactical Flight Flight ("Red Eagles"), April 1, 1975 - 1990
• USAF Tactical Combat Weapon Center, September 1, 1966 (USAF Warfare Center on November 15, 2005)

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In popular culture

• A smaller version of Nellis Air Force Base appeared in the video game 2010 Fallout: New Vegas . The inhabitants of the base were killed by nuclear radiation during the Great War of 2077. In the early years of the game of 2281, he was occupied by the militant xenophobic tribe survivors of Vault 34, calling themselves "Baby Boomers".

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See also

• Nevada World War II Army Airfields
• 36th Flying Training Wing (World War II)
• Lipetsk Airbase

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References

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External links

• "US Air Force AIM Points: Yes, they are MiGs flying over Nevada". Air Force Times. November 14, 2006.

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