The freedom and rights a good majority of us take for granted daily. Our troops selflessly put their physical well-being and their lives at risk to ensure our freedom. Training facilities, rest rooms, coffee shops, sporting fields, dining facilities, recreation and medical care facilities are offered to the staff and personnel living on the base.Lackland Air Force Base, 1701 Kenly Avenue, Texas is known as the “Gateway to the Air Force”. It can accommodate the C-5 Galaxy, F-16 Fighting Falcon, B-52 Stratofortress, F-4 Phantom II, SR-71 Blackbird, C-121 Constellation, B-17 Flying Fortress and B-25 Mitchell. The runway is 3,523m long and is surfaced with concrete. The base features a single runway jointly used by Lackland AFB and the city of San Antonio. Other tenant units of the base include the 59th Medical Wing, Civil Air Patrol, Corps of Engineers, Defence Commissary Agency, Government Printing Office, Air Force Security Forces Center, Naval Technical Training Center Lackland, Tops In Blue, 651st Munitions Squadron, the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, Inter-American Air Force Academy and the 67th Network Warfare Wing. “LAFB merged with Randolph Air Force Base, Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis in 2009.” The base also houses 802nd Mission Support Group, Air Force Reserve Command’s 433rd Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command, the Texas Air National Guard 149th Fighter Wing, 24th Air Force, 688th Information Operations Wing, the Air Force Information Operations Center and the Air Force Information Operations Battlelab. The headquarters of 37th Training Group and the 737th Training Group are located in LAFB. The complex will include classrooms, aircraft operations and hangar maintenance training areas. The Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment awarded a $18.5m contract to AMEC Earth and Environmental consultancy in July 2009 to construct a 74,000ft² airfield maintenance training complex in the base. After completion, each dining-classroom facility is expected to serve two ATCs. The construction of two campuses will be finished within nine years. Work on the dining and classroom facility began in February 2010 and is expected to be complete by 2011. Construction of the second ATC will begin in 2010. Work on the first ATC began in November 2009 and is scheduled to finish in early 2011. Each will have its own running track, drill pad, war skills area and utility infrastructure. The dining and classroom facilities will cost $32 million.Įach ATC can accommodate 1,200 trainees and is expected to cost around $75m. These two campuses will replace the training buildings and 1,000-person recruit housing that has been there since the 1960s. USAF awarded Merrick & Company a $900m contract in September 2009 to construct eight state-of-the-art airman training complexes (ATC) and four associated dining-classroom facilities in two campuses. Initial construction of LAFB began in June 1941. Merrick & Company provided conceptual design for a 21,000ft² dining hall, vehicle maintenance and operations complex, fuel operations, a refueller complex and the inter-American Air Force Academy training complex at LAFB.
The combined base is designated Joint Base San Antonio and operated by the 502nd Air Base Wing. LAFB merged with Randolph Air Force Base, Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis in 2009.
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