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MfLITAti' FORCES IN TtA9. &
yard. Dallas; San Diego and Indiana Streets.
El Paso; 2222 Worth Street. Fort Worth: 710
College Avenue, Lubbock- Fifty-third and
Avenue S, Galveston; 4415tt. Bernard Street.
Houston, 1941 South Third Street, Abilene;
17 Federal Building, Port Arthur, 410 Avenue
B. San Angelo; 311 East Arsenal Street. San
Antonio; 1823 Fifth Street. Wichita Falls.
Organized Submarine Division.-4415 St.
Bernard Street. Houston.
Construction Battalion (Seabees).---Organ-
ized CB companies, which meet at Surface
Reserve 'r-alning Centers have been formed
in: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Corpus
Christi. Fort Worth.
Volunteer Naval Reserve Units have been
organized In many Texas cities carrying on
training of a specialized nature at meetingsgs
and through work projects. These units ex-
tend facilities of the Navy to: Alice. Angle-
ton, Arlington. Ballinger. Bay City. Bellville.
Big Spring, Brownwood. Brownsville. Bryan,
Cisco, Clarendon, Commerce. Del Rio. Eagle
Pass. Graham. Groesbeck, Hamilton. Harlin-
gen. Huntsville. Kingsville, La Grange. La-
redo, Linaen, Longview, Marshall. McKin-
ney. Medina, Midland, Mineola, New Braun-
fels. Odessa, Paris. Pharr, Sherman, South-
mayd, Sweetwater, Taylor. Temple, Tyler.
Van Horn. Victoria and Waco.
Among these volunteer units, operating un-
der the Director of Naval Reserve, Eighth
Naval District, are: Electronic warfare com-
panies and platoons, aviation units, composite
units, dental units. Construction Battalion
units, automotive transportation unit, petro-
leum units, research units, medical units, na-
val transportation service units, supply corps
units, law units.
Naval Reserve Radio Stations, which have
provided c.inmunications for many disaster-
struck communities in Texas, including FortWorth. Lubbock, San Angelo. Amarillo and
others. are located at Naval and Marine Corps
Training Centers. electronic warfare units
and naval stations.
Operating the Organized Marine Corps Re.
serve Units in Texas are Inspector-Ihstructor
Marine Otficers. Their objective Is to train
Marine personnel to be prepared for immedi-
ate detene ot the nation in time of national
emergency. Marine reserves meet at the Na-
val Reserve Training Centers in Houston,
Austin and Galveston. Elsewhere in the state
they have separate training centers located
at: 111 Laguna. Corpus Christi; U.S. Naval
Air Station. Dallas; Building 33. 219 East
Arsenal Street. San Antonio: 2222 Worth
Street. Fort Worth: 1002 Pine Street. Tex-
arkana
Recruiting and Procurement.
To keep the fleet, shore establishments
and naval schools supplied with personnel Is
the job ot several procurement and recruiting
offices in Texas: Office of Naval Officer Pro-
curement, Branch Office, Dallas; Inspector of
Navy Recruiting, Seventh Recruiting Area,
Dallas: Navy Recruiting Station, Room 522,
Terminal Annex Building. Commerce and
Houston Streets, Dallas: Navy Recruiting
Station, Room 616, Federal Building. Hous-
ton; Marine Corps Headquarters, Southern
Recruiting Division. Terminal Annex Build-
ing. Dallas: Marine Corps District Headquar-
ters Recruiting Station, Terminal Annex
Building, Dallas; Marine Corps District
Headquarters Recruiting Station, Room 316.
Federal Building. Houston: Marine Corps Dis.
trict Headquarters Recruiting Station, 407
Post Otfice Building. San Antonio.
In addition to these many Texas cities have
recruiting substations which are usually lo-
cated 'n their post office buildings.U.S. Air Force in Texas
Examples of most major United States Air
Force activities are found within the state of
Texas. Aviation cadets train at several Texas
bases as they have for many years, and at
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. is
found ine USAF's only postwar officers can-
didate school. Also at Lackland AFB is the
Air Force's only basic training center for the
initial indoctrination and training of all USAF
recruits.
Several operational units of the Air Force's
combat strength are stationed at Texas bases.
From the School of Aviation Medicine at Ran-
dolph AFB flight surgeons are trained for
assignment throughout the Air Force to pro-
tect the Air Force pilot and improve his effi-
ciency at te altitudes and speeds of modern
aerial warfare. A major command headquar-
ters is located at Carswell Air Force Base
Fort Worth-Maj. Gen. Roger M. Ramey's
war-tamed Eighth Air Force of the USAF's
Strategic Air Command. The first two active
operational units flying the largest bomber
min the world, the six-engined Consolidated
Vultee B-3b. are assigned to the Fort Worth
installation. The San Antonio Air Materiel
Area covers Kelly Air Force Base, San An-
tonio, with warehouses and maintenance
hangars supplying most of the Ali Force ac-
tivities in Texas.
Major Air Bases.
Including major bases and auxiliary land-
Ing fields the U.S. Air Force has approximate-ly fifty installations in Texas. The major
bases and list of their commanding officers
follow:
Bergstrom Air Force Base. Austin, Col. Ash-
ley B. Packard. commanding officer; Biggs
AFB, El Paso. Brig. Gen. David W. Hutch-
ison, commanding officer; Brooks AFB, San
Antonio, Col. Cecil E. Henry. commanding
officer: Ellington AFB, Houston, Col. Ben-
.lamin T. Starkey. commanding officer; Cars-
well AFB, Fort Worth, Col. William P. FIsh-
er. commanding officer; Connally AFB, Waco,
Col. John T. Sprague, commanding officer;
Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo. Col. James E.
Roberts. commanding officer; Kelly AFB,
San Antonio, Maj. Gen. Clements McMullen.
commanding officer; Lackland AFB, San An-
tonio. Ma. Gen. Charles W. Lawrence, com-
manding officer: Perrin AFB, Sherman. Col.
Chester P. Gilger, commanding officer; Pyote
AFB. Pyote. Col. Y. B. KuykendalL com-
manding officer: Randolph AFB, San An-
tonio, Col. Thomas L. Moseley, commanding
officer; Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Brig.
Gen John H. McCormick, commanding of-
ficer.
All basic phase flying training given to avi-
ation cadets of the Air Force is centered in
Texas at tour installations: Connally AFB,
Goodfellow AFB. Perrin AFB and Randolph
AFB. On April 30. 1949, the U.S. Air Force
had a total of approximately 58.000 officers
and men stationed in Texas and a civilian
force of nearly 20,000 was employed by the
Air Force at Its Texas bases.STWR OFIC SUPL COMPANY
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