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342 TEXAS ALMANAC-1958-1959
ly at naval activities, and a branch hydro-
graphic office at Galveston.
The balance of Regular Navy activities in
the state consists of recruiting and officer
procurement offices.-
e NAVAL RESERVE.
Reserve activity of the U.S. Navy is divided
into two general types: pay and 'non-pay
units. Members of pay units .receive class-
room, shop and laboratory instruction at
weekly meetings, and compensatory pay for
their paticipation. Non-pay units consist of
officers and enlisted men who attend periodic
meetings to keep 'abreast of naval develop-
ments but who do not qualify for the com-
pensatory pay feature.
Personnel of either type unit may go on
two-weeks annual training duty with pay
either ashore or afloat within budgetary
limitations.
. The Naval Reserve includes the Naval and
<Marine Corps Reserve. Training Centers,. and
electronics facilities, which are operated by
officers and enlisted men on active duty,
These activities have the facilities for train-
ing reservists, keeping them in readiness for
rapid assimilation into the active fleet,
Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training
Centers in Texas are located at: 1941 S. 3rd,
Abilene; 2309 "L ine, Amarillo; 1110 Barton
Springs, Austin; 780 South Fourth Rd.; Beau-
mont; 9638 Bachman Blvd., Dallas: Box 3098,
Station ''A," El Paso; 2222 Worth St., Fort
Worth; 53rd St. at Ave "S", Galveston; 4415
Cullen Blvd.. Houston: Box 49, Lubbock;
Pleasure Pier Blvd., Port Arthur; 311 E.
Arsenals San Antonio: and Box 1247, -Waco.
NavalReserve Electronics Facilities are at:
Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi; Box 1526,
San Angelo;: and Box 184, Wichita Falls.Naval Reserve radio stations located at
these installations have provided communica-
tions duiilng disasters :and heavy storms.
There is a Submarine Division at 4415 Cul-
len Blvd., Houston. _
-Naval Reserve Construction Battalion Divi-
sions, which meet weekly at Naval Reserve
Centers or Facilities, are located -at Abilene,
Amarillo, Austin. Beaumont, Corpus Christi,
Dallas. El Paso. Fort Worth. 'Houston, and
San Antonio.- These .divisions are the pri-
mary' source of trained, readily available
construction forces.
Navy Civil Engineer Corps Companies,
which meet bi-monthly, are active in Bay-
town and McAllen.
MARINE CORPS RESERVE
Organized Marine Corps Reserve. units are
located at Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Beau-
mont, Corpus Christi, Dallas. El Paso. Fort
Worth, Galveston, two in Houston, Lubbock,
Midland, Port Arthur. San- Angelo, San An-
tonio, Texarkana, Waco and Wichita Falls.
Recruiting' and Officer Procurement
Main Navy Recruiting Stations and Naval
Officer Procurement Offlees are located in
Dallas and Houston, with Recruiting Sub-
stations in Abilene, Amarilloi,:Austin, Beau-
mont, Corpus Christi, Denison, Edinburg, El
Paso. Fort Worth, Galveston, Longview, Lub-
bock, Paris, San Angelo, San Antonio, Tyler,
Victoria, Waco and Wichita Falls.
Marine Corps Recruiting; Stations are lo-
cated-at: Houston, SamAntonio and Dallas,
with substations cat Abilene, Austin, Beau-
mont. ,Corpus Christi,. Denison; Fort Worth,
Galveston, Harlingen, Huntsville, Lufkin.
Odessa, Paris, San, Angelo, Tyler, Waco and
Wichita Falls.United States Air. Force Operations in Texas
Meteorological and physlographie. condi-
tions have-- favored Texas as a site for 'mill-
tay air training installations from the begin-
ning of military aviation in World War L As
of Sept. 1, 1957, there were 25 major U.S.
Air Force bases in Texas, out of a total of
about 150 In the United States. (See also
U.S. Naval Air Stations, p. 341.) The Texas
air bases cover 'practically all types of Air
Force operations and training.
Kelly Field at San Antonio was one of
the Army's largest air bases during World
War I. Today Air Force .:operations-'at the
several bases near San 'Antonio and at 'Cars-
well Field, Fort Worth. are among the larg-
est in the country. Lackland,;Field is one of
the Air Force's most important training fields.
Randolph -Field has a 'School of Aviation
Medicine in addition to bomber training.
U.S. AIR FORCE BASES IN TEXAS
Below is a list of the 'twenty-five major
Air Force Bases in 'the State. The following
abbreviations are tised:
AAB-Army Air: Base (reference below to
former installation); AAF-Army Air Force
(reference below to former Army operations);
AF-Ar Force;- AFB-Air, Force; Base ;AMC-
Air Materiel Command;. ATRC--Air Training
Command; ConAC-Continental Air Command;
CT'AF- CrewTraining Air Force:; FTA -Fly-
Ing Training Air Force MATS-Military Air
Trasprt- Service; OC-Offcers Candidate
School; SAC--Strategic- Air Command: ;TAC--
Tactical ' Air 'Command; TTAF Technical
Training:. Air Force; WAF-Woimen'. Air
Force..
Amarillo AFB.-14 Miles SE of Amarillo.
Jet mechanics and alrframe repair schools,
TTAF. ATRC.
Bergstrom AFB--7 Miles SE of Austin.
eStraye fighter: base, 2d AF, SAC; formerly
Del.Vale AAB.Biggs AFB.-6 Miles NW of El Paso. Medi-
um bomber and tow target base, :15th AF,
SAC Heavy and medium bomb wings.
Brooks AFB.-7 Mlles SSE of San Antonio.
Reserve training, ANG and units of Security
Service.
Bryan AFB.--6 Miles WSW :f 'Bryan. Basic
single-engine jet pilot training; FTAF, ATRC.
Carswell .AFB.-7 Miles WNW of Fort
Worth. Heavy bomber base; formerly Tar-
rant Field.
Ellington AFB.-16' Miles SE of Houston.
Observer training. FTAF, ATRC. Reserve
activities,
Foster AFB.-5 Miles NE of Victoria. Fight-
er (day) base, TAC.
Goodfellow AFB.-2 Miles SE of.. San An-
gelo.: Basic multi-engine training base.
Gray- AFB.-6 Miles SW" of Killeen. Special
activities base, 2d AF, AMC; formerly Camp
Hood AAF.
Harlingen AFB.-Near Harlingen. Observer
training,=FTAF, ATRC.
Hensley Field.-ll. Miles. SSW of Dallas.
Troop carrier base, reserve training,' Navy,
joint use with TAC, ConAC.
Hondo AB.-1 Mile'NW. of Hondio. Primary
contract pilot training. FAF. ATRC. -
James Connally AFB.-7 Miles NNE Waco.
Basic pilot: training, observer intercepterr
training, FTAF, ATRC; formerly Waco AFB.
-:Kelly AFB.-4 Miles:WSW of San'. Antonio.
Hq., Air Materiel Area ,.AMC: foreign'clear-
Ing station; MATS. Hq, -U.S. SecurityService.
Lackland AFB.-7lIles WSW of San An-
tonio:'Processing center, basittraining, OCS,
WAF training. TTAF' ATR%: Hq., Humas
Resource .Researeh Ceiter; formerly San A.
tonio Aviation Cadet Center.,
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