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Camp Blanding is the primary training site for most of the Florida National Guard's military units and the main combat arms brigade, the 53rd Infantry Brigade of the Florida Army National Guard. It is also home to the headquarters and support companies of the 3- 20th Special Forces Group, the 211th Infantry Regiment, and the 2-111th Airfield ...
The United States Navy 's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is a laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/ aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare – calibration, classifications, detection, and destruction. Its mission is to assist in establishing ...
A McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle, 80-0022, [40] of the 40th Flight Test Squadron, 46th Test Wing, based at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, crashed in the Gulf of Mexico ~60 miles S of Panama City, Florida, while on a captive flight development test of a new air-to-air missile, killing test pilot Maj. James A. Duricy, assigned to the 40th Test ...
Camp James E. Rudder (Camp Rudder) is host to the third and final phase of a nine-week training course, dubbed the "swamp phase", of the U.S. Army Ranger School.The camp is located on the Eglin Air Force Base reservation, co-located with Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field #6 / Biancur Field, approximately fourteen miles northwest of the main Eglin AFB airfield.
Camp Murphy consisted of 11,364 acres (45.99 km 2) and accommodated 854 officers and 5,752 enlisted men. The camp had close to 1,000 buildings that included a bank, movie theater, church and bowling alley. Camp Murphy was officially decommissioned in 1944 and used for migrant housing during the fall and winter of 1945.
Coordinates: 28°1′17.41″N 80°40′48.20″W. The Malabar Transmitter Annex is currently used as an auxiliary communications annex in support of space activities for NASA and the U.S. Space Force. The facility is under the control of the 45th Space Wing; security is administered by Patrick Space Force Base. Originally established as the ...
A USAF General Dynamics F-16A Block 5 Fighting Falcon, 78-0055, [182] flown by a pilot of the 3247th Test Squadron, 3246th Test Wing, disappears from Eglin Air Force Base's radar tracking screens at 1230 hrs., crashing in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 30 mi (48 km) south of Okaloosa Island, Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Men of an Engineer Port Construction and Repair Group at ASFTC Camp Gordon Johnston, Fla., build a floating dock from Navy pontoon gear. 9 May 1944. Camp Gordon Johnston was a World War II United States Army training center located in Carrabelle, Florida, United States. The site's history is featured at the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum.