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To: mad_as_he$$

Yes, Carswell is the old SAC base in Fort Worth that turned into ‘Joint Reserve Base Carswell’ without some of the base housing and perhaps the golf course included in the revised base. They closed NAS Dallas and move the navy functions to the old Air Force Base.


128 posted on 11/24/2013 11:24:24 AM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

NAS Dallas:

The Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex (formerly Naval Air Station Dallas or Hensley Field) is a former United States Navy Naval Air Station located on Mountain Creek Lake in southwest Dallas. The installation was originally established as an Army Aviation center, and eventually became home to aviation assets from all the military services. The facility was decommissioned in December 1998.[1] The base was later recommissioned as it is today as the Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex, with the half that housed the aircraft-related facilities (such as the runway, hangars, etc.) going to the Texas Air National Guard, and the half with the bulk of non-aircraft related facilities going to the Army Reserves and small area to Marine Forces Reserve. Vought Aircraft Industries operates a government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) plant adjacent to NAS Dallas.

I have a friend that flys Ospreys for the Corps at the base.


129 posted on 11/24/2013 2:16:55 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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