Beale Air Force Base | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:41 1 Overview
00:03:22 2 Role and operations
00:13:04 3 Based units
00:13:28 3.1 United States Air Force
00:13:38 4 History
00:14:02 4.1 United States Army
00:15:56 4.2 Air Training Command
00:18:23 4.3 Air Defense Command
00:20:25 4.4 Strategic Air Command
00:20:35 4.5 4126th Strategic Wing
00:22:12 4.5.1 HGM-25A Titan I
00:24:56 4.6 456th Bombardment Wing
00:28:18 4.7 17th Bombardment Wing
00:28:56 4.8 100th Air Refueling Wing
00:30:26 4.9 Missile Warning
00:31:37 4.10 9th Reconnaissance Wing
00:36:21 4.11 940th Air Refueling Wing
00:38:23 4.12 Modern era
00:40:14 4.13 BRAC actions
00:41:57 4.14 Return of KC-135 flying mission (post-BRAC)
00:43:45 4.15 Previous names
00:44:16 4.16 Major commands to which assigned
00:44:55 4.17 Major units assigned
00:45:05 4.18 Intercontinental ballistic missile facilities
00:47:43 5 Geography
00:49:19 6 Demographics
00:49:38 6.1 2010
00:53:22 7 Government
00:53:54 8 Appearances in popular culture
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Beale Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: BAB, ICAO: KBAB, FAA LID: BAB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 8 miles (13 km) east of Marysville, California.
The host unit at Beale is the 9th Reconnaissance Wing (9 RW) assigned to the Air Combat Command and part of Twenty-Fifth Air Force. The 9 RW collects intelligence essential for Presidential and Congressional decisions critical to the national defense. To accomplish this mission, the wing is equipped with the nation's fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady and RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft and associated support equipment. The wing also maintains a high state of readiness in its combat support and combat service support forces for potential deployment in response to theater contingencies.
The 940th Air Refueling Wing (940 ARW) is a tenant Air Force Reserve Command wing at Beale AFB flying the KC-135 Stratotanker and operationally-gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC).
Beale AFB was established in 1942 as Camp Beale and is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), a former Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and a Brigadier General in the California Militia who was an explorer and frontiersman in California. Camp Beale became a United States Air Force installation on 1 April 1951 and was renamed Beale Air Force Base.