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AAFES HQ Dallas Homes
AAFES is the acronym for Army & Air Force Exchange Service, an agency of the DOD. Its dual missions are to provide quality merchandise/services to authorized customers and to generate reasonable earnings to supplement appropriated funds for the support of Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) programs. AAFES recently unveiled a new logo, "X", for Exchange. This endeavor marks the end of post exchange, base exchange, AAFES, AFEES, PX, and BX confusion, with the goal of the common name Exchange.
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Corpus Christi NAS Homes
NAS Corpus Christi, also known as Truax Field, trains pilots. The Chief of Naval Air Training (CNTRA) is headquartered at the base and oversees training operations throughout the Southeast Region, from Texas to Florida. Under CNATRA's command are five training air wings including the Blue Angels precision flying team. Several other tenant commands are also located at the base of which the largest is the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD), the largest helicopter repair facility in the world.
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Dyess AFB Homes
Dyess AFB, located five miles southwest of the central business district of Abilene, is an emergency landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter. The host unit at Dyess Air Force Base is the 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) of the Air Combat Command. The 7 BW performs combat training with the North American B-1B Lancer bomber and is the Air Force's premier operational B-1B unit.
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Ellington Field, Air National Guard Homes
Ellington Field, now known as Ellington International Airport, is a joint civil-military airport located in Texas, about 15 miles southeast of the city center of Houston. The facility is the home of the Texas Air National Guard's 147th Reconnaissance Wing and supports a variety of aviation tenants to include NASA, Texas Air National Guard, Texas Army National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Fort Bliss Homes
Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) installation, is comprised of approximately 1.12 million acres of land in Texas and New Mexico. It is the only U.S. Army training installation in the continental U.S. capable of firing long-range Air Defense Artillery missiles, such as Patriot, HAWK and eventually the Theater High Altitude Air Defense System.
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Fort Hood Homes
Fort Hood is the largest active duty armored post in the U.S. and is the only post capable of supporting two full armored divisions. In addition to the 1st Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood is also home for the Headquarters Command III Corps along with many other tenant units. With semi-arid terrain that consists of over 800 miles of dirt and paved roads, live-fire exercises take place on 50 ranges, plus two scaled-down ranges located throughout the maneuver area.
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Fort Sam Houston Homes
Fort Sam Houston, Joint Base San Antonio, serves as command headquarters for U.S. Army North, U.S. Army South, the Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Center and School, and other tenant units. Known as the "Home of Army Medicine" and "Home of the Combat Medic" and home of the prestigious Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston has become the largest and most important military medical training facility in the world.
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Fort Worth NAS, Joint Reserve Base Homes
The Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Fort Worth, part of Navy Installations Command, is under the oversight of Commander, Navy Region Southeast. It hosts a variety of fighter/attack and airlift units from the reserve components of Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. The base's runway is also used by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, (where the F-16 Fighting Falcon, Mitsubishi F-2, F-22A Raptor, and the F-35 Lightning II are built) as their Fort Worth assembly facility sits adjacent to the base.
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Goodfellow AFB Homes
Goodfellow Air Force Base is a non-flying U.S. Air Force base. As part of Air Education & Training Command, Goodfellow's main mission is cryptologic and intelligence training for the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The host unit at Goodfellow is the U.S. Air Force's 17th Training Wing (17 TW).
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Kelly Field Homes
Kelly Field Annex or Kelly Field, formerly Kelly Air Force Base is located adjacent to Lackland AFB, in San Antonio, Texas, part of Joint Base San Antonio. Kelly Field is under the jurisdiction of the 802d Mission Support Group, Air Education and Training Command (AETC). Kelly Field Annex supports flight operations of the Air Force Reserve Command's 433d Airlift Wing, operating the C-5 Galaxy and the Texas Air National Guard's 149th Fighter Wing, operating the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
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Kingsville NAS Homes
Naval Air Station Kingsville is one of the U.S. Navy’s premier locations for jet aviation training. It is home to the Air Force's Training Air Wing TWO. Under the current U.S. Navy organization, NAS Kingsville and NAS Corpus Christi are part of Navy Region Southeast and are complementary stations to each other with Region and Chief of Naval Air Training leadership structures being essentially identical. NAS Kingsville also organizes and hosts the annual Wings Over South Texas Airshow.
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Lackland AFB Homes
Lackland AFB is home to the 37th Training Wing, the largest training wing in the Air Force. The wing provides basic military, professional, technical and English language training for the military services, government agencies and allies. The base's four primary training functions graduate more than 86,000 students annually.
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Laughlin AFB Homes
Laughlin AFB is the home of the 47th Flying Training Wing of the Air Education and Training Command, one of the world's premier pilot training wings. Approximately 400 new military pilots earn their silver wings at Laughlin each year after an intensive 52-week course where they learn to fly using the T-6A Texan II, T-38 Talon, and T-1A Jayhawk trainers.
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Randolph AFB Homes
Randolph AFB, now part of Joint Base San Antonio, serves as headquarters of the Air Education and Training Command as well as the Air Force Personnel Center and is known as "the Showplace of the Air Force" because of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture in which all structures were constructed. The host unit at Randolph is the 12th Flying Training Wing. The base operates parallel runways on either side of its main installation and conducts 24/day flight training operations.
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Sheppard AFB Homes
Sheppard AFB is the largest and most diversified training base in Air Education and Training Command. The host unit at Sheppard is the 82d Training Wing which provides specialized technical training, medical, and field training for officers, Airmen, and civilians of all branches of the military, other DoD agencies, and foreign nationals. The 80th Flying Training Wing, also at Sheppard, conducts the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program, producing combat pilots for both USAF and NATO.
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