505th Test & Evaluation Group (TEG)

702-652-8583

53rd Test and Evaluation Group (53rd TEG)

702-652-5300

57th Adversary Tactics Group

57th Maintenance Group (57th MXG)

702-652-4836

57th Operations Group

The 57th Pursuit Group, as it was originally designated, began in 1941. It was involved in training and aerial protection of the New England coast in the lead up to U.S. involvement in World War II. The group’s pilots simultaneously flew with multiple Allied countries’ Air Forces (including the Royal Australian Air Force and the South African Air Force) while under the command of the U.S. Army Middle East Force in 1942. Later that year and into early 1943, the 57th was involved in various bombing missions over Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia. Missions continued into summer of 1943 during the invasions of Sicily and Pantelleria. The Battle of El Alamein in Egypt earned the group its first of several Distinguished Unit Citations (DUC). In an operation referred to by the 57th as the “Palm Sunday Massacre”, the group destroyed enough enemy aircraft to force them to eventually surrender Tunisia. The 57th did maximum damage and took only a few hits of its own, which won them their second DUC. Their third DUC was earned during the invasion of Southern France and fighting in Elba and Florence in 1944. Years later they would also receive a French Croix de Guerre with Palm. Though it deactivated in 1953, the group was briefly used during the 1960s for aerial protection of the Pacific Northwest from Paine Field north of Seattle, Washington, and was shut down again in 1968. When the group finally reactivated in 1991 as the 57th Operations Group at Nellis AFB, it was used by the 57th Wing in support of multiple operations in the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s.

57th Wing (57th WG)

702-652-5700

99th Air Base Wing (99th ABW)

702-652-9900

The 99th Air Base Wing began as the 99th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in 1942 and moved to several different bases in its first year to find the best climate for flying their B-17 Flying Fortresses. In early 1943, the group operated from Algeria in order to intercept Germans trying to get supplies through Sicily and Italy. That summer, the 99th was involved with the bombing and invasion of Sicily, for which it earned a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC), and an attack on Rome several days later. The group moved from the tough conditions of Algeria and its frequent sand storms to the rough living in Tortorella, Campania, in southern Italy. They continued to bomb various locations around Europe into 1944 and were awarded a second DUC for a successful bombing of an Austrian aircraft facility without losing any of their own planes. At the beginning of June, just before D-Day, the 99th flew to Russia, becoming the first Air Force group to do so, and used it as a taking off point to drop bombs on a railroad yard in Hungary. On D-Day, the group was busy in Romania destroying another of the Germans’ airfields, then returned to Tortorella while the ground forces invaded Normandy. After participation in the invasion of Southern France later that summer, the group deactivated in the fall of 1945. In 1953, the group was brought back as the 99th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing and right away began working to improve the long-range capabilities of the B-36 Peacemakers as a part of the Fighter Conveyer Project (FICON). By the next year, the wing was operating out of Andersen AFB, Guam, with its new long-range bombers. Once the B-36s were replaced with B-52s, the 99th Bombardment Wing, as it was now called, supported the Vietnam War and bombing of Hanoi in 1972. The wing deactivated in 1974 until 1989 when it was reactivated as the 99th Strategic Weapons Wing. After moving from South Dakota to its final destination at Nellis AFB in 1992, the 99th became the Air Base Wing and remains a non-flying host unit.

99th Medical Group (99th MDG)

702-653-2000

99th Mission Support Group (99th MSG)

702-652-6550

99th Security Forces Group (99th SFG)

702-652-2566

Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR)

702-653-4600

USAF Advanced Maintenance & Munitions Officer School (AMMOS)

702-652-5964

USAF Weapons School (USAFWS)

702-652-4846