FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona ~ 16 DEC 2014

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Road Trip: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base adjacent to Tucson, Arizona. The installation is primarily an Air Combat Command (ACC) base with the 355th Fighter Wing (355 FW) as the host activity. The base is also home to Headquarters, 12th Air Force (12 AF) and the Air Force Material Command's (AFMC) 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG), previously known as the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

The 355th Fighter Wing is the host unit at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, however, other units also call D-M home. Twelfth Air Force, the 563rd Rescue Group and The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) are all based out of D-M.

After the execution of Operation Enduring Freedom, eight A-10s from the 355th Wing were called to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan to fly close air support missions supporting multinational ground forces.

In September 2002, the 48th, 55th, and the 79th Rescue Squadrons (RQS) transferred under control of the 355th Wing, equipped with HC-130 aircraft and HH-60 helicopters. At the same time, the 41st and 43 Electronic Combat Squadrons were realigned under the control of the 55th Electronic Combat Group (55 ECG).

While personnel and aircraft remained on Davis-Monthan AFB operational control of the 55 ECG was assumed by the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. Another major wing realignment occurred on 1 October 2003 with the activation of the 563 Rescue Group on Davis-Monthan AFB. Control of the 48th, 55th, and 79th Rescue Squadrons (RQS) was passed to the new group with the 23rd Wing assuming operational command of the unit.

Learn More About Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Here!

The Pima Air & Space Museum is one of the largest aviation Museums in the world, and the largest non-government funded aviation Museum in the United States.

The Museum collection includes President John F. Kennedy's Air Force One, and presidential aircraft used by president's Nixon and Johnson. The Museum has five large hangars totaling more than 177,000 feet of exhibit space. In addition, the 390th Bombardment Group (Heavy) Memorial Museum is located on the Museum grounds.

Visit The Pima Air And Space Museum Here!

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[laurenmarlowe]

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening everyone!

Computer is being wacky, gonna do some fixing and be back shortly.

Have a wonderful evening!

*HUGS*

[Celtic Conservative]

Aw man, the boneyard! I always wanted to go there.

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[PROCON]

Ack, you're early again Lauren!

Thanks for tonight's Canteen!

[Squantos]

Was stationed there in 74-75 when mission was Titan ICBM’s, A-10’s and F106 Air Defense Alert birds on 5 minute alert along with the U2’s before they went to California. Good assignment. Hotter than a snakes butt in a wagon rut but fun place non the less.

Stay Safe !

[SandRat]

Gogeous place

[Sasparilla]

DMAFB has 2,000 acres with 4,000 mothballed aircraft, both new and old- from Korean War/VietNam vintage to modern. You can see a ton of them just by driving around the boneyard perimeter.
A good combination of heat and humidity keeps these planes in incredible shape.

Further over toward Phoenix you will see a private storage facility with all kinds if commercial airliners mothballed there.

[Regulator]

Pima air museum is best in class. Its a fabulous day trip for the family with a nice cafeteria and endless airplanes, including the SR71 and the almost unknown D21 Mach 3+ drone.

In the 60s there were hundreds of F4s at DM. Grew up seeing them thundering over town as they headed out to the Gila Bend gunnery range as they called it then. Way too quiet now with just A10 fanjets!

And rows and rows and rows of every airplane ever used in the air forces of the U.S. Military.

[SandRat]

The Pima Air & Space Museum is a great plcae to go with kids and is one of the largest aviation Museums in the world, and the largest non-government funded aviation Museum in the United States.

[left that other site]

Good Evening, Everybody!

((((HUGS)))))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh no....computer problems. Never good.

Thanks for our new Road Trip, and good luck with the computer. *HUGS*

[norton]

I remember in the mid sixties when the most impressive sight I’d seen to date was the boneyard from high up mount Lemon, that and watching an original (ex-C97) Guppy lower its flaps and not fall out of the sky. Back then the museum was what ever could be pushed up to the Perimeter Road fence with a board mounted description in front of it.

[left that other site]

I love Antique Aircraft Museums.

I went to one in Orlando, where I got to FLY a WW2 Era Navy Texas T6 Trainer. (Also got to fly a MASH Helicopter)

At one in Virginia, I saw the actual B17 Bomb Sight that my Mom used to make in a factory in Watertown MA.

And at Weeks Air Museum in Miami, I met and chatted with General Paul Tibbetts.

[acad1228]

Tunes For Da Troops!!!acad1228’s Daily Dose O’ Da Blues!

Charles Brown - It's Gettin' To Be Evening

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Bonnie Raitt - Papa Come Quick

Angela Strehli - Go On

Candye Kane - Candy

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Sending out prayers for Arrowhead1952 as he recovers from his horrible fall.

~ Road Trip: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona ~

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