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Los Alamitos Army Airfield (ICAO: KSLI, FAA LID: SLI) is a armed forces airport turn up 1 land mile (two kilometre) southeastward of Los Alamitos, in Orange County, California, USA.

Facilities

Los Alamitos Army Airfield has 2 landing track:

• Runway 4L/22R: 5,900 x 150 foot. (1,798 x 46 m), Surface: PEM
• Runway 4R/22L: 8,000 x 200 foot. (2,438 x 61 m), Surface: Asphalt/Concrete

History

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, due to what the United States Navy comprehended as a hostile mental attitude on the division of the City of Long Beach regarding improvements and upkeep of Long Beach Airport (then both a municipal airport and Naval Reserve air station), and unknown to town officials at the clip, the Navy had set about a appraise for a more suitable location for voyage functioning. Admiral Ernest J. King, then the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and Admirals William D. Leahy, Joseph K. Taussig, and Allen E. Smith pointedly claimed that the City of Long Beach fix the hazardous landing track at Long Beach Airport and just reminded the town that the Pacific Fleet, then putting offshore in both Long Beach and San Pedro seaports, had a paysheet of over US$1 million per calendar month. That amount being rather deal of money at the clip, the town abide by with the Navy's claims.

Still, the town elongated to present a hostile mental attitude toward okaying a rent on anybody additional district that the Naval Reserve currently claimed. The Navy there upon, fed up with the town of Long Beach, determined upon the buy of some belonging owned by a Mrs. Susanna Bixby Bryant, a fact made known by the commanding officer of the ground, Commander Thomas A. Gray, to the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Admiral John H. Towers. The circumstances behind the buy were bring out to James V. Forrestal, Under Secretary of the Navy, and by him to the House Naval Affairs Committee who okayed the buy. Although Commander Gray had offered Mrs. Bryant US$350 an acre, in the most good loyal spirit she sold the belonging at US$300 an acre.

With the location get, in 1941, building monetary funds before long come after and Naval Reserve Air Base (NRAB) Los Alamitos set about to take characteristic. The new ground supplied many businesses and spurred modest ontogeny. On one June 1941, functioning physically relocated from Long Beach to Los Alamitos.

By May 1942, Los Alamitos was functioning with a complete physical constitute including administrative business office, ill embayment, a synthetic grooming installation, central registers, schoolroom, and an fabrication & fix section. With a station complement of about 2,500 military officers and adult male, the initial air power plebes set about their grooming. The 1st graduating category amounted 729 plebes, 180 having wash out. By the finish of the yr, the ground's 36 aeroplanes had increased to 140, and in 1943, five outlying fields were get, Training was execute largely in plyboard N2T1s. When modified from the bid of the Naval Primary Training Command to that of Naval Air Center, Eleventh Naval District, on 15 August 1943, it was used to station bearer air grouping. Renamed a naval air station, its voyage functioning were dealt by a Fleet Air Detachment, with station complement dropping from approximately 250 military officers and 2000 adult male to 40 military officers and 500 adult male and the Assembly and Repair Department give up but still used by the CASU on board. Many CASUs and ARGUSs (grouping to constitute forward air ground) were characteristic at and send off from Los Alamitos during the conflict. With additional building set about after mid-1943, the aggregative investing at the station to one January 1945 was $4,827,014.64. Growing from 1 military officer, 1 adult male, and 1 aeroplane in 1928, Los Alamitos in 1945 had get 1 of the Navy's most eminent air stations.

On 15 August 1943 it went an operational grooming ground for preparation of fleet units and was reclassified as a Naval Air Station. In addition to furnishing grooming, the ground serviced aircraft from the battle fleet, including bearer air grouping from USS Lexington, Saratoga, and Langley.

NRAB Los Alamitos was ab initio under the bid of the naval functioning found at San Pedro, California. Like other Naval Reserve Air Bases constituted during the 1930s, it fell under the bid of the Naval Air Primary Training Command on one October 1942; Naval Air Center, Eleventh Naval District, San Diego, on 15 August 1943; and eventually Naval Air Bases, Eleventh Naval District, on ten August 1944. As an NRAB, the missionary post of Los Alamitos was to learn, railroad train and bore Naval Reserve air power force living in the Eleventh Naval District.

Many former armed forces force take to stay on in the City of Los Alamitos after the conflict, living in such vicinities as Carrier Row, where streets are named for World War II aircraft carrier.

As was the example with other naval air stations retained in functioning position coming after the conflict, Los Alamitos endured a time period of passages and modifies. Under the bid of the Chief of Naval Air Training at NAS Pensacola, its foreign missions were to prepare reservists and service the fleet. On one March 1946, while it furnished grooming, CASU 33 back up Air Group 98, but the devotedness of action is able to be measure out by the fact that, as of 28 February 1946, it had only ninety-seven V-6 force on active responsibility as deskman, yet until the finish of September this group furnished proficiency winging for more than 1,500 inactive reserve airplane pilots. Meanwhile, CASU 706 back up Patrol Squadron 908 (VP-908), Escort Carrier Air Groups 779 and 778, and Carrier Air Group 716. On 16 August 1946, the 1st group of air power plebes in the Selective Training Program came on board, and after one September, the station shall be used by the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS). On 13 October, the record-making Truculent Turtle, which had winged nonstop for about 4,500 land mile, paid the station a see. By the finish of 1946, with 243 reserve airplane pilots, 1,375 volunteer reserve airplane pilots, 255 inactive reserve enlisted adult male, and 368 active agent obligation deskman, Los Alamitos was 1 of the busiest Naval Air Reserve Stations. Between January and March 1947, the station got the biggest in the entire Naval Reserve air grooming program.

On 17 May 1947, the disposal of NAF Litchfield Park, southwestward of business district Phoenix, Arizona, was location under Los Alamitos to assist volunteer reserve air power force in the Phoenix-Tucson area . With 1,300 coordinated reservists, 1,682 inactive reservists, twelve over-aged reservists, seven adult female reservists, and 583 deskman, Los Alamitos rested the biggest Naval Air Reserve Station in the United States.

On board during the 1st one-fourth of 1948 were a visible radiation bearer aircraft group (CLG); 2 bearer air grouping; 2 escort bearer air grouping; 2 patrol aeroplane squadrons; 3 transport squadrons; 4 fleet aircraft service squadrons; 2 Marine contending squadrons and a Marine ground command interceptor unit; 2 volunteer units, 1 at Litchfield, 1 on the station proper; a NATS Unit; GCA; and an all-weather station. Until it was make up one's mind that there were not enough force to elongate related volunteer units at Bakersfield Municipal Airport and Santa Barbara, Los Alamitos presumed administrative duties for them. At the station full functioning were carried on for 5 solar days a hebdomad from 0730 to 1630. Saturday nighttime was reserved for nighttime winging. Operations were limited on Mondays and Thursdays; weekends were funny house as the "weekend warrior" came on board.

On seven November 1949, Los Alamitos had its 1st jet plane, an FJ-1 Fury. With all FGs replaced with F6F Hellcats, a reorganization take place on one December 1950 in which there was supplied a wing staff with twenty-five squadrons. During the summertime of 1950, 105 midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy accounted for 4 solar days of an air cruise and 112 gobs accounted for 8 hebdomads of grooming obligation. Meanwhile, there was a waiting listing for airplane pilots and dry land military officers. When the naval air power plebe program, which had opened on one July, closed on 25 October 1950, Los Alamitos had obtained a 10th of the plebes entered in the entire state. Meanwhile, in respond to President Truman's quest for reservists to volunteer for obligation during the Korean War, VG-781 called for mobilization as a complete unit, and was accepted – the 1st squadron in the state to do so – VP-772 accounted for active agent responsibility on one September; 3 Marine Corps Organized Reserve units were say to active agent obligation, and so was VP-772. To accelerate grooming, on six March and once again on 16 May 1951 ninety-day trainees accounted on board. The 3rd group of trainees came on board for preparation 16 June and many of them and station force helped saved dwells and holding during heavy rainfalls and swamps that damaged the nearby city of Los Alamitos. On 15 January 1952, the 1st eggbeater unit came on board. Also in 1952, a reserve air intelligence unit came on board.

On 16 July 1957, then-Major John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC, position the Transcontinental air velocity enter, winging a F8U-1 Crusader from NAS Los Alamitos to Floyd Bennett Field, New York, in three 60 minutes, 23 min., and 8.4 2nd. Project Bullet, as the missionary post was named, furnished both the 1st transcontinental voyage to mean supersonic velocity, and the 1st uninterrupted transcontinental panoramic picture of the United States. Glenn was presented his 5th Distinguished Flying Cross for the missionary post.

For the next decennium, functioning at Los Alamitos were modus operandi. In 1970, nevertheless, the Navy closed the station as a Naval Air Reserve grooming installation and allow it assist just as a Naval Air Station. In 1972, eggbeater components of both the California Army National Guard and United States Army Reserve relocated from rent installations at commercial airports to NAS Los Alamitos. Following blessing of an environmental impact statement filed in August 1973, the ground was denominated an Armed Forces Reserve Center for which the Navy was denominated host, and the California Army National Guard was bear down with functioning the field.

The senior bid on station is the 40th Infantry Division (Mechanized), headquartered in the big, prominent construction human facing the the range pole and briny gate arterial blood vessel.

In July 2000, Los Alamitos Armed Force Reserve Center was renamed Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Center.

This location assisted as the scratch line for the 14th season of the hit CBS Reality TV Show The Amazing Race.

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