FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana ~ 09 SEPT 2025

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana

Grissom Air Reserve Base is a United States Air Force base, located about 12 miles north of Kokomo in Cass and Miami counties in Indiana. The facility was established as a U.S. Navy installation, Naval Air Station Bunker Hill, in 1942 and was an active Air Force installation, Bunker Hill Air Force Base from 1954 to 1968, and Grissom Air Force Base from 1968 to 1994.

Pursuant to a BRAC 1991 decision, the installation was downsized to an Air Force Reserve installation and renamed Grissom Air Reserve Base.

Since then it has been a joint-use civil airport/military base. Approximately 1700 acres plus the runway and taxiways comprise the current military installation, with the Grissom Aeroplex comprising the civilian aviation activities providing general aviation and charter service.

Originally named Bunker Hill Air Force Base, the base was renamed Grissom Air Force Base in 1968 in memory of astronaut and Indiana native Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF, who, along with fellow astronauts Lieutenant Colonel Ed White, USAF and Lieutenant Commander Roger Chaffee, USN, perished in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27, 1967.

It is home to the largest KC-135R Stratotanker wing in the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), plus units from the United States Army Reserve and also the US Marine Corps Reserve. The host unit is the 434th Air Refueling Wing (434 ARW), the "Hoosier Wing", which consists of three major groups and a variety of squadrons and flights.

The wing develops and maintains the operational capability of its units and train reservists for worldwide duty, with the wing operationally-gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC). Training consists of flight operations, deployments, and weekday and weekend training.

The 434th Air Refueling Wing regularly participates in exercises and front-line operations to support America's national interests. The Air Force Reserve Command provides a substantial portion of the Department of Defense's total aerial refueling capability. Hence, the 434th receives its share of taskings both during peacetime and times of crisis to support our nation's active duty military forces.

The wing consists of three major organizations--the 434th Operations Group, the 434th Maintenance Group, and the 434th Mission Support Group. Included in these major organizations are such areas as flight operations, aircraft maintenance, plans and programs, safety, airfield management, security police, communications, medical support, information management, administration, and civil engineering.

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[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time again, thanks Lauren! 👍

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

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for your service!

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *HUGZ*

Things going well with you these days? Upcoming Fall events keeping you hopping?

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy PROCON! Great to see ya.

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

How are things up your way? Are y’all choking on wildfire smoke like we are?

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you radu!

*HUGS*

Yup, gotta work all week and Saturday and Sunday too. It’s all good, these are fun and easy events this month.

Big plus, the weather is just so pleasant.

Hope you have a good week!

[luvie]

~ Road Trip: Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Hello there luvie, thanks for the post!

*HUGS*

[PROCON]

Hiya radu!

We do have some wildfire smoke but it's not as bad now as it has been in recent years but still no fun.

I visited Robin and the pups yesterday, temps are slowly starting to get cooler, in the 80's this week.

Did you have anything to do with FR shutting down? I figured a kitty jumped on your keyboard, hit the wrong key and put FR offline all day yesterday. 😂 😂😂

[laurenmarlowe]

Forwarding to radu, and thanks for the update!

:-)

[PROCON]

LOL, sorry, thanks Lauren! 😁

[radu]

As long as your enjoying the work, that’s what counts. Nice when you’re working on fun events.

Glad you got some of the nice weather lately. It’s been very comfortable here, too,but it’s about to get hot again, durn it. Summer isn’t quite ready to let go.

[radu]

Looking at the fire and smoke map I use, it looked kinda nasty up there. We’ve had a lot of smoke down here recently too. Some from Canada and some is more local. I’m thinking about heading out shortly to check out a fire that’s burning outside the town just a few miles north of here because there’s a pretty big one up there right now. Based on the map, it’s grown a lot since I checked last night and is moving towards town - - and towards the neighborhood I grew up in. Scary.

We’ve had nice temps the past few days but it’s about to jump back into the 890s again. *sigh* Not too happy about that.

Nope. Not my kittehs! Maybe luvie’s Peaches did it. LOL
It did suck not having FR for a whole day.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Feel better after a good, long night’s sleep? :-)
Hope the weather was decent today. It was a nice day here for running errands.

[luvie]

My pleasure! Anything I can do to help Kathy!

Hope you’re having a good week! (((hugs)))

[luvie]

Oh, noooo....Peaches would NEVER do THAT!!

pphhffllbbtt!!

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Yes, it was great here. The kitties seemed to enjoy the day a lot. I stayed in, of course LOL!, but I did sleep much better and much longer last night.

Glad it was nice enough there to be able to get errands run. Does that mean that the smoke wasn’t quite as thick today?

[radu]

LOL! He CAN be a stinker at times, though.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Yes, it was great here. The kitties seemed to enjoy the day a lot. I stayed in, of course LOL!, but I did sleep much better and much longer last night.

Glad it was nice enough there to be able to get errands run. Does that mean that the smoke wasn’t quite as thick today?