Oct. 2, 2023 482d Fighter Wing commander meets with Florida Defense Support Task Force Col. Joshua Padgett, Commander of the 482d Fighter Wing, and other base leadership participated in a two-day meeting with the Florida Defense Support Task Force September 20 and 21, at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida.The primary purpose of this engagement was to provide a detailed briefing to
June 1, 2023 Civil engineers survey their mettle, build esprit de corps during 2-week annual tour Approximately 50 members from the 908th Civil Engineer Squadron came together for more than two weeks of annual training split between Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, and Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, from April 22, 2023, to May 7, 2023. The training covered everything from Air Force
Aug. 24, 2022 Hurricane Andrew’s 30th anniversary Built in 1942, Homestead Army Airfield was destroyed three years later, on Sept. 15, 1945, by a hurricane with winds of 145 miles per hour.HAAF was officially abandoned three months later. In the three years it was open, the airfield trained hundreds of Air Force pilots who then went on to fly the
Aug. 17, 2022 HARB supports DoD Warrior Games with flyover The 482nd Fighter Wing is scheduled to perform a flyover with two of its F-16 Fighting Falcons during the opening ceremony of the Department of Defense Warrior Games in Orlando, Florida, August 19.The Warrior Games is an annual event, first held in 2010, that celebrates the resiliency and dedication
Sept. 26, 2016 Commentary -- We are MAKO proud On Sept. 16, the Homestead Air Reserve Base turned 74 years old. And for 74 years we have led the way in mission accomplishment and fighter aircraft flown. We are proud of that. We are consistently chosen, based on who we are, to fly the world’s greatest jets. The Makos support, maintain, and fly