Usaaf Fourth Air Force Replacement Training Stations: March Joint Air Reserve Base, Portland International Airport

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: March Joint Air Reserve Base, Portland International Airport, Ontario International Airport, Hamilton Air Force Base, Tonopah Army Air Field, Paso Robles Municipal Airport, Paine Air National Guard Base, Visalia Municipal Airport, Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport, Buchanan Field Airport, Sacramento Executive Airport, Olympia Regional Airport, Chico Municipal Airport, Santa Maria Public Airport, Barstow-Daggett Airport. Excerpt: March Joint Air Reserve Base (IATA: RIV, ICAO: KRIV, FAA LID: RIV) is located in Riverside County, California between the cities of Riverside and Moreno Valley. It is the home to the Air Force Reserve Command's 4th Air Force (4 AF) Headquarters and the 452d Air Mobility Wing (452 AMW), the largest air mobility wing of the 4th Air Force. In addition to multiple units of the Air Force Reserve Command supporting Air Mobility Command, Air Combat Command and Pacific Air Forces, March ARB is also home to units from the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and the California Air National Guard. For almost 50 years, March AFB was a Strategic Air Command base during the Cold War. March is one of the oldest airfields operated by the United States military, being established as Alessandro Flying Training Field in February 1918. The airfield was renamed March Field the following month for 2nd Lt Peyton C. March, Jr., the recently deceased son of then-Army Chief of Staff Peyton C. March, who was killed in an air crash in Texas just fifteen days after being commissioned. Major General George Owen SquierThe establishment of March Air Force Base began in the early 1900s at a time when the United States was rushing to build up its military forces in anticipation of an entry into World War I. In 1917, in response to news from the front lines, Congressional appropriations attempted to back ...