Brooks Air Force Base was one of the stops on JFK’s Texas trip on November 21, 1963. Carswell Air Force Base was the last time he got into Air Force One on his own. They took the short flight from Carswell to Love Field in Dallas. Bergstrom was supposed to be the last stop on their Texas trip. Bergstrom was also where LBJ would land until they built a landing strip large enough for Air Force One to take off and land from his Ranch. You can see it on Google Maps. BTW, you forgot NAS Chase Field, Beeville, Texas. That was my Dad’s last hitch before retiring from the Navy in 1975…
i always thought af 1 landed at bergstrom and he took the little jet to the ranch. the little jet that looks like hound dog ii elvis had. but i also had heard from my dad that the big af 1 had a strip at the lbj ranch,
carswell afb > Today, the facility is known as Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. It retains an Air Force Reserve presence as well hosting Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve Army Aviation Reserve and Air National Guard flying units which were formerly located at Naval Air Station Dallas.
Air Force Plant 4 is across the runways as well, since 1942. Now operated by Lockheed Martin, they have ended production of the F-16 & now build the F-35 A, B & C. Fun fact - "Fat Albert", the retired USN Blue Angels C-130 now is on display on the southeast end of Carswell Field, KNFW
I was hoping a good review for/on the Matagorda Island AFB (R&R during active duty) . It served mainly to train pilots to fish while practice water ditch and rescue. Practice dummy bomb drops on the island south of the base. To this day, pock-marks are still seen. Yes, old live ordance remain in the dirt that didn't pop. Twenty years ago, we use to Cessna-in, camp on the west runway end or just shoot 'touch & goes'. Thks for the good vid. Victoria had an AFB too, maybe (AUX).
If you do another one of these, Look up Amarillo Air Force Base. Was used for bomber training and was located not too far from PANTEX (nuke assembly, disassembly and maintenance).
The picture at 2:59 is not Carswell AFB. That is a picture of Air Force Bomber Plant Number 4. At the time leased by General dynamics. That facility still uses the same runway as Carswell. Now Lockheed Martin. Also… it is still called Cardwell Air Field. The base is not shut down… it’s new name is Naval Air Station / Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. Or NAS JRB Fort Worth. I am sitting on site right now. We are still here and not abandoned.
I was a military sales rep back in the early 90’s. I called on several of these closed bases - Brooks, Carswell, and Bergstrom. Before that I practically grew up visiting the Naval Station PX in Grand Prairie. On a side note, when that jet crashed in the parking lot near the exchange, my parents had parked in that exact impact site only an hour or so before.
I grew up in Duncanville, under the southern flight path for NAS Dallas and remember hearing the maintenance group do engine run-up on the test stand. Duncanville also had an air force base. There was a large round metal structure near Reed Jr. High that was the base structure for an early warning radar dome that controlled surface to air missile sites as far away as Glen Rose. The roundhouse, as we called it locally, was torn down in the 90s. I remember my 3rd and 5th grade teachers telling us how the kids would always run to the window to watch the transports come in and depart. The base was active in the 1950s.
You forgot about Reese AFB, at Lubbock. It served mainly to train pilots. Its main function now is to collect tumbleweeds; at least in the old housing area.
I drove through Ft. Wolters back in 2015. I don’t know why, but that place gave me the jitters. A lot of vacant buildings that time just forgot. Did have a nice memorial just past the entrance honoring some of the most recognizable people that went through there. Audie Murphy for one! Also, the round building at Bergstrom used by the AAF and Air Force is now the Austin Bergstrom Hilton
I grew up near Perrin Field. My grandfather was a civil service employee on Carswell up until the late 80’s. Looking at some of the other facilities both on here and later on Google Earth, it reinforces how identical the US Army built in the past. The facilities on Ft. Crocket are still standing and virtually identical to those built near the same time on Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. To the point that I’m virtually guaranteed that I could walk through several of them and know my way around fairly easily, minus modern renovations.
You missed Amarillo, Air Force base it was a strategic air command, and bell helicopter mfg factory. I know I lived and worked there till 1970. I watched B52’s do touch and go landings. I was a city electrician and worked on the runway lights and was on the runway as they landed rolled a mile then took off circled around and did it again.
You forgot a couple of roles at Brooks AFB. It was the home of the Human Systems Program Office, the center for life support and chemical defense systems for Aerospace (flight crews) and ground personnel. Also, all Aerospace Medical and Bio-Environmental personnel were trained at Brooks. At one time the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence was located at Brooks. The oldest wooden aircraft hanger (Hanger 9) in the DoD is located at Brooks.
I dont know about Blackland army air corps base,but it was Waco Army Air Corps which came into being in may of 42 until the end of WW2 when it was closed ,but then reactivated in 48 becoming Connaly AFB soon after.Closing in 68 which became TSTI.I went to school there nov 85-to may88 was TSTI then,became TSTC fall of 88
I was hopping to hear something about the bases in the Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen AFB in the 1940's and Fort Brown in Brownsville Texas in the 1840's. Maybe in the future we may listen to some awesome stories.
fort wolters The base was deactivated in 1973. The site is now used as an industrial park with activities including Ventamatic, Ltd, GR's Workshop, a branch of Weatherford College, and a training center for the Texas Army National Guard. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice also operates a District Parole Office on the site.
I was stationed at the Naval Training Base in Beeville, TX and our "auxiliary" base was in Goliad, TX. Even though I would drive through Goliad numerous times, I never heard of or saw the fort there. I always assumed the town's historical sites had long before disappeared.
Not sure what your source is on Navy Station Ingleside but it was built in the late 80’s. My dad was SR Vice President for the company the Navy bought the land from and I was home on leave (1988 or 89) when the USS Wisconsin moored at the shipyard for the dedication of the new facility.
My first duty station when I was in the USAF was Reese AFB, just west of Lubbock, TX. It was already on the BRAC closure list when the USAF sent me there, no idea why....I was only there ~18 months, then it closed in late 1997. It was an undergraduate pilot training base, the only one at the time that also had exchange pilot trainees from the Navy and NATO countries. I was a logistics type, and in 2000, while with Defense Logistics Agency, we were part of a NATO fuel infrastructure inspection at an Italian air base near Trapani, on the west coast of Sicily. We were chit-chatting with the Italian wing commander, and it turns out he went through the pilot training program at Reese years before.
I was assigned to Ft Rucker Alabama in '72/'73 to provide support for the Army Helicopter Flight School at Cairn Airfield. That school is still in operation
Naval Air Station Hitchcock was located next to Camp Wallace. It supported Navy blimps that patrolled the Gulf of Mexico. The Blimp Hangar concrete door supports are all that is left of the Blimp hangar.
You may want to check on Brooks. As the first military to pass away from a crash. I think that may be Thomas Selfridge. In Mount Clemens Michigan. The crash I believe was in 1908 with one of the Wright brothers. The brother survived. But obviously, that was the wrong brother to fly with that day. Brooks may have been killed flying in WWI.
You neglected to mention the decade that the B36 "Peacemaker" flew out of Carswell AFB and here's a little trivia for everyone: for a time, members of the 4th Air Wing, Texas State Guard trained at the JRB until the base commander, Captain T.D. Smyers felt the TSG wasn't performing adequate background checks on its members and ordered them off his base.
Fort Parker State Park Fort Parker State Park came to be in 1935. The city of Mexia and three local landowners donated about 1,500 acres of land for the park. It is between Mexia and Groesbeck in Limestone County.
Biggs Air Force Base was located just outside Ft. Bliss near El Paso. Like Bergstrom AFB, it was a Strategic Air Command base. It's location made it very far from the USSR. It was transferred to the Army and continues as Biggs AAF.
Surprised you didn't mention Call Field a United States Army Air Corps training camp established in 1918, was five miles southwest of Wichita Falls in Wichita County. There were tons of other smaller installations all over Texas like the Nike Missile Base in Denton,Terrell, Duncanville, Mineral Wells, and Alvarado also had Nike missile bases in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Or Amarillo AFB or Reese AFB in Lubbock.
fort davis Fort Davis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,201 at the 2010 census,[3] up from 1,050 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Jeff Davis County.
Bergstrom wasn’t much as a SAC base as it was only that way for a hot minute back in the late 50s and mid-60s, it made its reputation as a TAC base flying F-4s and RF-4s. It is now Austin International Airport
blacklands army airfield The field became inactive on October 31, 1945. By 1950 the facility was disposed of by the War Assets Administration (WAA) and deeded to the local government, being operated as Waco Municipal Airport. Some buildings were used as a public housing project.
bryan afb Deactivated in May 1961, the land and buildings were leased to the Texas A&M University in 1962, and in 1988 full ownership of the former base was transferred to Texas A&M University at virtually no cost.
fort mcintosh > The fort was deactivated in 1946, and the land is now part of the campus of Laredo Community College main campus. The Laredo United States Army Reserve 340th Quarter Master Company is located within the fort.
ingleside navy base The Navy returned ownership of the main base property to the Port of Corpus Christi.[6] The Port of Corpus Christi sold the pier to Flint Hills Resources for $8.5 million and the remainder of the station to a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum in two packages for $82.1 million and $7 million.
Not true I live in San Antonio. Brooks Air Force in San Antonio, now called Brooks City Base located within the metro area, is a boom town with many industries, cinemas, and commercial and residential areas all over.
You left out the Tactical Air Command's 75th/67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wings at Bergstrom Air Force Base from 1966 to the base's close in the early 1990's.
you forgot Connally air force base just shy north of Waco Texas ... the runway was barely long enough to land Air Force 1 ....President Bush then took the helicopter about 15-20 miles west of Waco to his ranch ...
This video contained a couple of errors regarding the air bases in Waco, TX. You focused on Blackland Army Air Field. Blackland later became home of the Waco Municipal Airport near Lake Waco. One picture you showed was from Rich Field in Waco during WW1. It was located the then rural area of western Waco. That location is now home to the Heart of Texas Fair grounds, Extraco Center, the former Richfield High School (named after the air field and later renamed Waco High School). The James Connally Air Base opened in 1947 and closed in the 60’s to become the home of James Connally Tech later renamed Texas State Technical Institute.
@@barryhorst6009 Rich Field served as the municipal airport until WWII. The old terminal is now an event hall called the Lions Den. James Connally AFB was Waco Army Air Field during WWII (there's a picture of its gate).
Most of these bases were not abandoned.. They are integral airports that operate to this day. You talk about Brooks but don’t mention Ellington Field’s history.
True today it is but back in the 60 it was an air force base then it sat closed for years before it was incorporated into fort bliss and opened as biggs army airfield@@billallen8998
Brooks Air Force Base was one of the stops on JFK’s Texas trip on November 21, 1963. Carswell Air Force Base was the last time he got into Air Force One on his own. They took the short flight from Carswell to Love Field in Dallas. Bergstrom was supposed to be the last stop on their Texas trip. Bergstrom was also where LBJ would land until they built a landing strip large enough for Air Force One to take off and land from his Ranch. You can see it on Google Maps. BTW, you forgot NAS Chase Field, Beeville, Texas. That was my Dad’s last hitch before retiring from the Navy in 1975…
i always thought af 1 landed at bergstrom and he took the little jet to the ranch. the little jet that looks like hound dog ii elvis had. but i also had heard from my dad that the big af 1 had a strip at the lbj ranch,
My grandpa was stationed at Kelly Base in the late 60s!
carswell afb > Today, the facility is known as Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. It retains an Air Force Reserve presence as well hosting Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve Army Aviation Reserve and Air National Guard flying units which were formerly located at Naval Air Station Dallas.
It was also the prime setting in the movie Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart when he was flying the B-36
Air Force Plant 4 is across the runways as well, since 1942. Now operated by Lockheed Martin, they have ended production of the F-16 & now build the F-35 A, B & C. Fun fact - "Fat Albert", the retired USN Blue Angels C-130 now is on display on the southeast end of Carswell Field, KNFW
Carswell AFB is where the movie "Strategic Air Command" Starring Jimmy Stewart was filmed.
I was hoping a good review for/on the Matagorda Island AFB (R&R during active duty) . It served mainly to train pilots to fish while practice water ditch and rescue. Practice dummy bomb drops on the island south of the base. To this day, pock-marks are still seen. Yes, old live ordance remain in the dirt that didn't pop. Twenty years ago, we use to Cessna-in, camp on the west runway end or just shoot 'touch & goes'. Thks for the good vid. Victoria had an AFB too, maybe (AUX).
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Blackland became Waco Municipal (now Regional) Airport. Connally AFB was the one integrated into the TSTI (now TSTC) campus.
Knew there was a lot. Didn't realize so many bases in TX have closed down since I discharged. Good work.
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If you do another one of these, Look up Amarillo Air Force Base. Was used for bomber training and was located not too far from PANTEX (nuke assembly, disassembly and maintenance).
The picture at 2:59 is not Carswell AFB. That is a picture of Air Force Bomber Plant Number 4. At the time leased by General dynamics. That facility still uses the same runway as Carswell. Now Lockheed Martin. Also… it is still called Cardwell Air Field. The base is not shut down… it’s new name is Naval Air Station / Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. Or NAS JRB Fort Worth. I am sitting on site right now. We are still here and not abandoned.
you forgot Webb AFB in Big Springs and the Rattlesnake Bomber base in Pyote
I was a military sales rep back in the early 90’s. I called on several of these closed bases - Brooks, Carswell, and Bergstrom. Before that I practically grew up visiting the Naval Station PX in Grand Prairie. On a side note, when that jet crashed in the parking lot near the exchange, my parents had parked in that exact impact site only an hour or so before.
I grew up in Duncanville, under the southern flight path for NAS Dallas and remember hearing the maintenance group do engine run-up on the test stand.
Duncanville also had an air force base. There was a large round metal structure near Reed Jr. High that was the base structure for an early warning radar dome that controlled surface to air missile sites as far away as Glen Rose. The roundhouse, as we called it locally, was torn down in the 90s. I remember my 3rd and 5th grade teachers telling us how the kids would always run to the window to watch the transports come in and depart. The base was active in the 1950s.
You forgot about Reese AFB, at Lubbock. It served mainly to train pilots. Its main function now is to collect tumbleweeds; at least in the old housing area.
Also Webb AFB in Big Spring.
I drove through Ft. Wolters back in 2015. I don’t know why, but that place gave me the jitters. A lot of vacant buildings that time just forgot. Did have a nice memorial just past the entrance honoring some of the most recognizable people that went through there.
Audie Murphy for one!
Also, the round building at Bergstrom used by the AAF and Air Force is now the Austin Bergstrom Hilton
I grew up near Perrin Field. My grandfather was a civil service employee on Carswell up until the late 80’s. Looking at some of the other facilities both on here and later on Google Earth, it reinforces how identical the US Army built in the past.
The facilities on Ft. Crocket are still standing and virtually identical to those built near the same time on Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. To the point that I’m virtually guaranteed that I could walk through several of them and know my way around fairly easily, minus modern renovations.
You missed Amarillo, Air Force base it was a strategic air command, and bell helicopter mfg factory. I know I lived and worked there till 1970. I watched B52’s do touch and go landings. I was a city electrician and worked on the runway lights and was on the runway as they landed rolled a mile then took off circled around and did it again.
Matagorda Island Closed AFB and Conroe Airport. Also Fort Gates, Worth, Graham, Grogan and more that were around Mid 1800's
You forgot a couple of roles at Brooks AFB. It was the home of the Human Systems Program Office, the center for life support and chemical defense systems for Aerospace (flight crews) and ground personnel. Also, all Aerospace Medical and Bio-Environmental personnel were trained at Brooks. At one time the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence was located at Brooks. The oldest wooden aircraft hanger (Hanger 9) in the DoD is located at Brooks.
I dont know about Blackland army air corps base,but it was Waco Army Air Corps which came into being in may of 42 until the end of WW2 when it was closed ,but then reactivated in 48 becoming Connaly AFB soon after.Closing in 68 which became TSTI.I went to school there nov 85-to may88 was TSTI then,became TSTC fall of 88
I was hopping to hear something about the bases in the Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen AFB in the 1940's and Fort Brown in Brownsville Texas in the 1840's. Maybe in the future we may listen to some awesome stories.
fort wolters The base was deactivated in 1973. The site is now used as an industrial park with activities including Ventamatic, Ltd, GR's Workshop, a branch of Weatherford College, and a training center for the Texas Army National Guard. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice also operates a District Parole Office on the site.
I was stationed at the Naval Training Base in Beeville, TX and our "auxiliary" base was in Goliad, TX. Even though I would drive through Goliad numerous times, I never heard of or saw the fort there. I always assumed the town's historical sites had long before disappeared.
8:19 That is a picture of WACO Airfield in Troy, Ohio.
Not sure what your source is on Navy Station Ingleside but it was built in the late 80’s. My dad was SR Vice President for the company the Navy bought the land from and I was home on leave (1988 or 89) when the USS Wisconsin moored at the shipyard for the dedication of the new facility.
My first duty station when I was in the USAF was Reese AFB, just west of Lubbock, TX. It was already on the BRAC closure list when the USAF sent me there, no idea why....I was only there ~18 months, then it closed in late 1997. It was an undergraduate pilot training base, the only one at the time that also had exchange pilot trainees from the Navy and NATO countries. I was a logistics type, and in 2000, while with Defense Logistics Agency, we were part of a NATO fuel infrastructure inspection at an Italian air base near Trapani, on the west coast of Sicily. We were chit-chatting with the Italian wing commander, and it turns out he went through the pilot training program at Reese years before.
The Shaw of Iran's son trained there.
@@billyroye3987I probably inprocessed you at the Reese MPF.
I was assigned to Ft Rucker Alabama in '72/'73 to provide support for the Army Helicopter Flight School at Cairn Airfield. That school is still in operation
Naval Air Station Hitchcock was located next to Camp Wallace. It supported Navy blimps that patrolled the Gulf of Mexico. The Blimp Hangar concrete door supports are all that is left of the Blimp hangar.
You may want to check on Brooks. As the first military to pass away from a crash. I think that may be Thomas Selfridge. In Mount Clemens Michigan. The crash I believe was in 1908 with one of the Wright brothers. The brother survived. But obviously, that was the wrong brother to fly with that day. Brooks may have been killed flying in WWI.
Thomas Selfridge was the first military aircraft crash fatality
I did Reserve time at Selfridge back in the day!!
You neglected to mention the decade that the B36 "Peacemaker" flew out of Carswell AFB and here's a little trivia for everyone: for a time, members of the 4th Air Wing, Texas State Guard trained at the JRB until the base commander, Captain T.D. Smyers felt the TSG wasn't performing adequate background checks on its members and ordered them off his base.
Fort Parker State Park Fort Parker State Park came to be in 1935. The city of Mexia and three local landowners donated about 1,500 acres of land for the park. It is between Mexia and Groesbeck in Limestone County.
You didn't mention Webb AFB in Big Spring, TX.
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Will make sure to include it in the second part of the video
What is the structure on the thumbnail??
perrin field is now used for small businesses
Biggs Air Force Base was located just outside Ft. Bliss near El Paso. Like Bergstrom AFB, it was a Strategic Air Command base. It's location made it very far from the USSR. It was transferred to the Army and continues as Biggs AAF.
Amarillo Air Force Base was closed in the late 60's
I was stationed at Brooks AFB from 1982 - 1986. One of my better assignments. Now it's Brooks City-Base. No more military presence I believe.
Surprised you didn't mention Call Field a United States Army Air Corps training camp established in 1918, was five miles southwest of Wichita Falls in Wichita County. There were tons of other smaller installations all over Texas like the Nike Missile Base in Denton,Terrell, Duncanville, Mineral Wells, and Alvarado also had Nike missile bases in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Or Amarillo AFB or Reese AFB in Lubbock.
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I will definitely make a second part of this video, since I couldn't fit them all in just one
In ww2 there were air force base by Pampa tx but it closed down after the war turn into cattle’s farm. It use to train bombers for the war.
Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant in Karnack is definitely worth checking out. I took some amazing photos there.
You left off Kelly AFB, San Antonio
fort davis Fort Davis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,201 at the 2010 census,[3] up from 1,050 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Jeff Davis County.
Cardwell was not abandoned. Air Force used to run it, now the Navy does. No part of the facility was abandoned
Fort Ringold, Río Grande City, Tx and Moore Air Force base, Mission, Tx
Carswell is not called that anymore but it was never abandoned.
Wish you had covered James Connally Air Force Base in Waco, I was born there.
Kelly AFB in san antonio now called Port San Antonio a global hub for private and civilian technologies
All these bases might be a good spot to house all the homeless?
you forgot Foster Field, Victoria, TX and Harlingen Field , Harlingen, Tx. James Connally in Waco. My dad served at all three.
You left off Fort Clark in Bracketteville.
Bergstrom wasn’t much as a SAC base as it was only that way for a hot minute back in the late 50s and mid-60s, it made its reputation as a TAC base flying F-4s and RF-4s. It is now Austin International Airport
@2:51, That is a picture of the Consolidated/Convair/General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin Aircraft Plant. Carswell AFB is on the other side of the runway.
Missed the part where you explored these bases...
blacklands army airfield The field became inactive on October 31, 1945. By 1950 the facility was disposed of by the War Assets Administration (WAA) and deeded to the local government, being operated as Waco Municipal Airport. Some buildings were used as a public housing project.
Wasn't there a Pyote Air Force Base near Pecos, Texas?
bryan afb Deactivated in May 1961, the land and buildings were leased to the Texas A&M University in 1962, and in 1988 full ownership of the former base was transferred to Texas A&M University at virtually no cost.
Uh, Carswell is now a JRB, not “Abandoned”
I guess Carswell is "abandonded" even though they still have F-35's stationed there.
fort mcintosh > The fort was deactivated in 1946, and the land is now part of the campus of Laredo Community College main campus. The Laredo United States Army Reserve 340th Quarter Master Company is located within the fort.
Webb afb Big Spring,TX
ingleside navy base The Navy returned ownership of the main base property to the Port of Corpus Christi.[6] The Port of Corpus Christi sold the pier to Flint Hills Resources for $8.5 million and the remainder of the station to a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum in two packages for $82.1 million and $7 million.
Now it is a oil export facility.
Perrin AFB in Grayson County is ACTUALLY in DENISON,TEXAS, NOT Sherman
Was coming to make this exact comment
fort travis is now a park and historical site .
Laredo AFB was actually permanently closed in 1973.
You missed Webb AFB in Laredo TX it is now an international airport.
You forgot Fort Clark Springs in Brackettville, TX
Forgot Reese AFB, in Lubbock TX
presidio is a historic site now
You missed Aloe field and
Foster field, Victoria Texas
Was there one that resembled the concrete disk shown in your thumbnail image? No, there was not.
Carswell AFB did not merge with NAS FW. Carswell AFB had NAS Dallas move there and became NAS FW.
Not true I live in San Antonio. Brooks Air Force in San Antonio, now called Brooks City Base located within the metro area, is a boom town with many industries, cinemas, and commercial and residential areas all over.
Amazing how well text to speech works these days, but there are some giveaways like at 5:37.
Yep. Goliad. Belknap. Those were incorrect. These videos are all thrown together and a script written and jetted out online.
What about Childress Army Air Field? Bombardier and Navigator training during WWII?
You didn't mention Webb AFB in Big Spring, TX 😮
Thank you for your comment! Yes, I will make a second part of this video, couldn’t fit them all in one!
You forgot Webb AFB in Big Spring TX
You left out the Tactical Air Command's 75th/67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wings at Bergstrom Air Force Base from 1966 to the base's close in the early 1990's.
It was also a presidential support base for President Lyndon B. Johnson, during his terms of office and retirement years.
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I wasn’t able to fit all of them in one video, will for sure make the second part of it!
You forgot Camp Howze in Gainesville, TX.
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The Ingleside base was sold to chemical companies in the coastal bend area.
bergstrom afb is now austin airport
The 12th Air Force HQ is now a Hilton hotel. An exhibit on the base's history is located in the AUS airport terminal.
you forgot Connally air force base just shy north of Waco Texas ...
the runway was barely long enough to land Air Force 1 ....President Bush then took the helicopter about 15-20 miles west of Waco to his ranch ...
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I might do second part of this video, but just on air force bases in Texas, since there are so many
This video contained a couple of errors regarding the air bases in Waco, TX. You focused on Blackland Army Air Field. Blackland later became home of the Waco Municipal Airport near Lake Waco. One picture you showed was from Rich Field in Waco during WW1. It was located the then rural area of western Waco. That location is now home to the Heart of Texas Fair grounds, Extraco Center, the former Richfield High School (named after the air field and later renamed Waco High School). The James Connally Air Base opened in 1947 and closed in the 60’s to become the home of James Connally Tech later renamed Texas State Technical Institute.
@@barryhorst6009 Rich Field served as the municipal airport until WWII. The old terminal is now an event hall called the Lions Den. James Connally AFB was Waco Army Air Field during WWII (there's a picture of its gate).
So I have to ask where is the picture of the thumbnail from?
Blackland is now waco regional not TSTC.
You missed Webb AFB.
Goliad is pronounced Go-Lee-Ad.. I'm about 30 minutes from there.
We should leave all of our current military bases and make new ones.So we just have a country of abandoned military bases.
And incredible bureaucratic waste
He said "the base trained alot of aviators, especially pilots"
All pilots are aviators, but not all aviators are pilots!
Majors field, Greenville tx?
So which one is the thumbnail of???
Military and airforce bases? Last I checked the airforce is in the military
Most of these bases were not abandoned.. They are integral airports that operate to this day. You talk about Brooks but don’t mention Ellington Field’s history.
Left out Laredo Air Force Base.
So as others had asked, what is the building in the thumb nail?
I tried doing a Google image reverse search but I think it's a squashed image of something else
What about fort gates
I DIDN'T REALIZE CARSWELL WAS ABANDONED
The last I heard, it was a federal prison.
you left out Laredo Air Force Base
You should sheck-out Western Washington State for Forgotten WWII Bases.
Thank you for suggestion! Will research about them for the upcoming videos
yall forgot Biggs Air Force Base El Paso texas
Biggs is an army airfield, not abandoned
True today it is but back in the 60 it was an air force base then it sat closed for years before it was incorporated into fort bliss and opened as biggs army airfield@@billallen8998
there is one more base left out camp Barkley. Outside of Abilene Texas. It was a WW2 base that held Nazi prisoners
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Hey wiz kid. Air Force is still military
Multiple reasons why I no longer service Texas feel free to ask me why🙄