~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Dyess Air Force Base, Texas Dyess Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 7 miles west-southeast of Abilene, Texas. The host unit at Dyess is the 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) assigned to the Air Combat Command Twelfth Air Force. The 7 BW is one of only two B-1B Lancer strategic bomber wings in the United States Air Force, the other being the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. Dyess AFB is a 6,409 acre base with over 13,000 military and civilian...