Twelfth Air Force

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Headquartered at [[Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Twelfth Air Force controls the [[Air Combat Command conventional fighter and bomber forces based in the western United States and is the Air Component (AFSOUTH) for the [[Unified Combatant Command, [[United States Southern Command.

12AF Bases

[[Beale Air Force Base, California

  • 9th Reconnaissance Wing

[[Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.

  • Headquarters, [[Twelfth Air Force
  • 355th Wing: [[A-10 Thunderbolt II|A/OA-10
  • [[EC-130 COMPASS CALL, stationed at Davis-Monthan, is an [[Eighth Air Force asset and controlled by the 55th Wing at [[Offutt AFB, Neb.)

[[Dyess Air Force Base, Texas

  • 7th Bomb Wing: [[B-1 Lancer|B-1

[[Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D.

  • 28th Bomb Wing: B-1

Holloman AFB, N.M.

  • 49th Fighter Wing: [[F-117 Nighthawk|F-117, T-38

Mountain Home AFB, Idaho

  • 66th Fighter Wing: [[F-15 Eagle|F-15C/D, [[F-15E Strike Eagle|F-15E, [[F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16D, F-16CJ [[suppression of enemy air defense variant
  • Air Expeditionary Force Battlelab

[[Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

  • 55th Reconnaissance Wing, which flies a variety of [[C3I-ISR aircraft

[[Robbins Air Force Base, Georgia

116th Air Control Wing at Robbins Air Force Base, Ga.

[[Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma

Tinker is home to the most intensely deployed wing in the Air Force, the [[552nd Air Control Wing operating the [[E-3 Sentry [[Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), now under [[Twelfth Air Force. It is also the operating location for the joint Air Force-Navy task force for the [[E-6 TACAMO command and control aircraft.

  • 3rd Combat Communications Group

While Tinker, as a base, is organizationally under the 12th, it hosts the immense [[Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, part of the [[Air Materiel Command. It also has a variety of maintenance units.

Tenants at non-12th AF Bases

  • 388th Fighter Wing (F-16C/D) and 419th Fighter Wing [Air Force Reserve], [[Hill Air Force Base, Utah
  • 1st Air Support Operations Group, Fort Lewis, Wash.
  • 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE) Squadron, [[Malmstrom Air Force Base, [[Montana (U.S. state)|Montana
  • 820th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, Nellis AFB, Nev.