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	Keesler Air Force Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The base is home of the 81st Training Wing, and the base is responsible for training airmen who have just completed basic training as well as additional training they will need for upcoming assignments.
		Thereafter, shrinking budgets forced the base to reduce its operating costs: the Airplane and Engine Mechanics School and the Radar School were consolidated on 1 April 1948.
		At the same Air Training Command was redesignated the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), and the command activated Second Air Force and stationed it at Keesler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keesler_Air_Force_Base (959 words)

	Fact Sheet #1 - Former Chanute Air Force Base Environmental Restoration Program
		Chanute Field (640 acres) was constructed, initially serving as a pilot training facility and a storage depot for aircraft engines and paint in 1917.
		The Air Force, along with the state and federal regulatory agencies, want to ensure that remedial action decisions are based on accurate information and are protective of human health and the environment.
		Based on the recent laboratory results, it was indicated to the homeowners of this private well that an alternative water supply for drinking and cooking was recommended in order to reduce the exposure and possible adverse health effects from ingesting lead.
	www.epa.state.il.us /community-relations/fact-sheets/chanute-afb/chanute-1.html (2757 words)

	ATSDR - Health Consultation - Rural Rantoul Residential Wells, Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		CAFB is an inactive military facility within the incorporated limits of the Village of Rantoul, in Champaign County, Illinois.
		At the time of the base closure, all of the hazardous waste generated on the base was collected from storage and designated accumulation points, and disposed off the base in a permitted facility [1].
		Based on the well water sampling data from years 1998 to 2001, IDPH concludes that under current conditions, exposures are not at levels expected to cause adverse health effects.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080 /HAC/PHA/rantoul/rrr_p1.html (1593 words)

	Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chanute AFB is lower in military value than other technical-training centers because the facilities significantly detract 'from its mission effectiveness.
		Chanute AFB is one of five Air Training Command Technical Training Centers providing specialized training for officers, airmen, and civilians of the Air Force, and for other Department of Defense agencies.
		Chanute AFB can be closed without degrading the overall capability of the Air Force to provide technical training.
	www.afrpa.hq.af.mil /library/BRAC/88bases/chanute.html (402 words)

	The Wetokian: The Journal of the Atomic Weathermen
		Chanute Air Field opened in Rantoul in the summer of 1917, and pilots trained then and there went directly to France into the midst of WWI.
		A severe wind and hail storm struck Chanute in 1962; the worst blizzard in Chanute’s history happened in 1964; and later that year, the wooden hanger, last of the original buildings built in 1917, was demolished.
		Navy and Air Force weather training was consolidated at Chanute in 1977; and in 1978, the first five-service consolidated weather forecaster class began.
	www.aracnet.com /~pdxavets/wetokian/whit3.htm (1698 words)

	Chanute Air Force Base
		In 1917 Rantoul, Illinois, was chosen by the U.S. Army Air Service to train pilots for World War I. Over the next 75 years Chanute Field (which later became Chanute Air Force Base) became the premier technical training school for the USAAF and USAF.
		At the time of its closure in 1993 Chanute had trained over 2 million men and women and was the third oldest active base in the U.S. Air Force.
		The base was Declared closed in 1988 and was handed over to the Village of Rantoul officially on September 30th, 1993.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /j2hanten/starfire/places/chanuteafb.html (203 words)

	Chanute Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chanute Air Force Base is one of five Air Training Command Technical Training Centers providing specialized training for officers, airmen, and civilians of the Air Force, and for other DoD agencies.
		The Air Force and regulatory agency personnel interact closely by sharing information and facilitating consensus on regulatory issues, thereby conserving resources and costs.
		Chanute Air Force Base is currently remediating petroleum-contaminated soil at 15 UST sites as part of a treatability study for low temperature thermal volatilization.
	www.dtic.mil /envirodod/derpreport/chanute.html (524 words)

	NPL Site Narrative for Chanute Air Force Base, NPL, Superfund, US EPA
		Chanute Air Force Base (AFB) is located in the north-central portion of Champaign County in east-central Illinois.
		Chanute AFB was constructed in 1917 and initially served as a pilot training facility and a storage depot for aircraft engines and paint.
		Military flight operations were terminated at Chanute AFB in 1971, and base closure began in 1990 in response to an order issued by the Secretary of Defense.
	www.epa.gov /superfund/sites/npl/nar1615.htm (852 words)

	Chanute Air Force Base: Weather observer school (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		From 1989 to 1998 I was in the Air Force, serving as a meteorologist.
		This rule was typically carried over during an Air Force member's first few years by not providing BAQ (bachelor's allowance for quarters) to single members, meaning they had to pay out of their own pockets if they wanted to live off-base.
		Air Force Weather lost a substantial number of people around 1997-98 due to the surging economy and the fact that people in this career field, which had one of the most stringent aptitude requirements in the Air Force, had a lot of IT skills just by the job's very nature.
	www.weathergraphics.com /tim/chanute (929 words)

	12:0261(60)UC - Air Force, Air Training Command, Randolph AFB, TX and NFFE -- 1983 FLRAdec RP
		The Activity operates the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, which is primarily responsible for Air Force professional education, the Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, Squadron Officer School, Leadership and Management Development Center, as well as other educational functions.
		At Lowry Air Force Base, the Activity operates a correctional and rehabilitation unit in addition to a technical training center.
		Based on these facts, the Authority finds that the petitioned for consolidated unit would not ensure a clear and identifiable community of interest among the employees involved.
	www.flra.gov /decisions/v12/12-060-3.html (1643 words)

	Chanute Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chanute AFB closed on September 30, 1993, pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, Pub.
		The FEIS analyzed potential environmental impacts of the Air Force's disposal options by portraying a variety of potential land uses to cover a range of reasonably foreseeable future uses of the property and facilities by others.
		The Air Force issued a ROD on July 21, 1992 which documented a series of decisions regarding the intended disposal of Government-owned property.
	love1394.home.mchsi.com /chanute/chanute.html (1141 words)

	Nation's Business: Lessons from Chanute - closing of Chanute Air Force Base - Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chanute's 3,500 military personnel and 1,035 civilian employees accounted for $341 million a year spent in the regional economy.
		Although Chanute's closing in 1993, announced in 1988, came as little surprise, coping with the actual loss of an economic mainstay was difficult.
		Chanute has two: Frank Elliott, a retired Air Force major general who commanded Chanute in the 1970s, and Ray Boudreaux, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, now director of Aviation and Reuse Development of Rantoul.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1154/is_n11_v82/ai_15843461 (1070 words)

	Donald Weckhorst
		CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE HISTORIAN: Donald O. Weckhorst was born 4 February 1932 in Appleton, Minnesota.
		After Chanute AFB closes in 1993, he plans to continue teaching and assist the central Illinois community in developing and maintaining the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum and Air Park.
		The bride is employed at the I.B.M. office at the University of Illinois in Urbana, and the groom is a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force, having recently re-enlisted for four years, and is at present stationed at Chanute Air Force base.
	www.dallas.net /~mcmanus/wec_don.htm (2108 words)

	When does "Air Force base" have a capital "B"?
		The term Air National Guard base (instead of Air Force base) is used for Air Force bases which are used exclusively by the Air National Guard (ANG).
		The term Air National Guard station instead of Air Force station is used for Air Force Stations which are used exclusively by the Air National Guard.
		Some "Air Force Stations" were spared from the redesignation fracas; St Louis AFS MO is one example, others included radar stations that were already programmed to close.
	www.airforcebase.net /usaf/capitalb.html (1677 words)

	ECONOMIC RENEWAL: COMMUNITY REUSE OF FORMER MILITARY BASES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although many communities feared that the closing of a nearby military base would be their economic death knell, in practice it has been the starting bell for charting a new economic future.
		Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, TX (BRAC 91; closed Sep 93) – "Fly Austin – The Sky's the Limit" is the theme for this month’s grand opening of the new Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, located at the former Bergstrom Air Force Base.
		Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda, MI (BRAC 91; closed Jun 93) – This former air base is located in a rural township with a population of only 1,061 and in a county with a total population of only 30,209.
	www.defenselink.mil /pubs/reuse042199.html (6945 words)

	KeepMedia \| American City & County: Closing headaches teach city valuable lessons
		But, since Chanute was one of the first bases on the closure list, neither it nor the city had a redevelopment template from which to work.
		In the beginning, for example, frequent changes in base closure personnel meant that the city was constantly forced to build and rebuild personal relationships.
		Secondly, the communtiy had to adopt a Base Reuse Plan that incorporated and environmental impact study on base closure and reuse, as well as a Socioeconomic Impact Analysis and a Base Historic Evaluation, all of which were crucial in helping the city to make the right decisions.
	keepmedia.com /pubs/AmericanCityCounty/1996/02/01/133391?...&oliID=229 (251 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Living the Good Life After Base Closure
		With the possibility of more base closures in fiscal 2001 and 2005, the lessons the people of Rantoul learned could be important to other communities around military installations.
		The city owns 60 percent of the former training base, including two runways reopened to general aviation that the Air Force had closed in 1971, he said.
		Named after aviation pioneer Octave Chanute, for whom the base was named, the museum has exhibits showing life on the base throughout its history.
	www.dod.gov /news/Apr1999/n04161999_9904161.html (1501 words)

	Air Force Link - MAJOR GENERAL JAMES B. KNAPP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1944 he was assigned as chief of operations, Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, to coordinate and plan air actions of the Atomic Energy Commission.
		In September 1945 he returned to the United States and was assigned to Headquarters Army Air Forces in Washington, D.C., where he served as staff planning officer and later as chief, Strategy Branch of War Plans Division, Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Plans.
		General Knapp went to Goose Air Base, Labrador, in August 1953, as base commander and in April 1957 assumed command of the 4082d Strategic Wing.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=6082 (579 words)

	US Air Force at Offutt AFB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Construction of the permanent base began in May 1941 and some of the troops were able to move into permanent quarters late in the year.
		Initially the air forces were part of the Army and wore the same uniform.
		Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE The 30th Communications Squadron was activated at Andrews Field, Camp Springs, Maryland in the fall of 1946.
	members.aol.com /ajwheat (9690 words)

	IGS 2002
		Chanute Air Force Base opened in 1917 and continued as a military site until 1993.
		It was primarily used as a training facility for air corps mechanics.
		Chanute was a non-flying training facility at the time it was closed.
	levy.topcities.com /igs2002.html (335 words)

	Chanute Air Force Base, BRAC, Federal Facilities, Superfund, Region 5, US EPA
		Based on preliminary discussions, it appears that Chanute will fall approximately ten million dollars short of the funding it needs to meet the cleanup milestones presented in the Consensus Statement Project Schedule.
		TCE Risk Assessment - Disagreement between U.S. EPA and the Air Force over the toxicity of TCE, which is a risk driver at many of the Chanute sites, may result in significant delays if the Air Force refuses to use the new information in the human health risk assessment.
		PCB Studies - Due to the type of training that was done at Chanute, it was a huge consumer of electricity, and had dozens of PCB-containing transformers distributed throughout the base.
	www.epa.gov /R5Super/fed_fac/brac_sites/ff_brac_chanute.htm (653 words)

	Air Force Link - BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES M. FITZMAURICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Upon completion of these courses, he remained at Chanute Air Force Base as commanding officer of the Fifth Photo Section, and later as instructor in the Department of Photography, until March 1928.
		In July 1937, he was assigned to Langley Air Force Base, Va., as squadron operations and engineering officer, flight commander and commanding officer, successively of the 21st Reconnaissance Squadron and approximately two years later, became a student at the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
		In October 1947, he returned to the United States, where he became deputy chief of staff for operations of Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base, Va. He was appointed vice commander and chief of staff of TAC in December 1948.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=5424 (557 words)

	Newsletter, Spring 1998, Chanute.., THROUGH THE YEARS, African-American History in Champaign County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The 99th Pursuit Squadron began as an experiment by the Armed Forces in March of 1941, prior to the American entry into World War II to support the fl pilots who were simultaneously being trained at Tuskegee, Alabama.
		Upon completion of their training at Chanute in October of 1941, the men were transferred to Tuskegee for active duty specialists and mechanics supporting the 33 pilots in training at that time.
		The Experiment of 1941, the establishment of the 99th Pursuit Squadron and all supporting elements thereof, complete within the Unit, was a success far beyond the belief of many in Congress who had opposed the experiment.
	www.prairienet.org /years/chanute.htm (243 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Pentagon report on perchlorate inadequate, senator says
		WASHINGTON – A Pentagon report found contamination from a toxic chemical at 14 closed military bases nationwide, but a Democratic senator criticized the report Friday as inadequate.
		Feinstein said the report should have addressed 74 potentially contaminated closed bases – a number contained in a General Accounting Office report from 2003.
		She also complained that the Pentagon shouldn't wait for the EPA to issue a final national standard for perchlorate to develop clean-up plans.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040723-1757-rocketfuelpollution.html (397 words)

	Autobiography of C.R.H. Part 2
		We were rescued from the wreckage by young Air Force non-coms who were students at Chanute and were sleeping in near by barracks.
		Back in the Air Force I was soon deeply involved in all the fascinating things going on in research and development at that time.
		Contacts were made with NASA, the Air Force, the Navy, the U.K., the aircraft manufacturers concerned, and the engine manufacturers, to accomplish this.
	www.chuckhawks.com /crh2.htm (2594 words)

	Garlington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Colonel Gerald T. Garlington is the air national guard advisor to the commander, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Ga. He provides direct liaison between the Warner Robins Air Logistic Center Commander, the director of the Air National Guard and the commander, Air Force Reserve Command.
		Garlington acts as a focal point and coordinating office for all Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command operational and logistics matters and he works in close association with all directorates in an advisory capacity.
		Garlington enlisted in the Air Force May 1966 and his service included a tour of duty with the Jolly Green Giants of the 37th Air Rescue and recovery Squadron, Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam.
	www.robins.af.mil /biographies/garlington.htm (523 words)

	MSN Encarta - Illinois
		Later events include the Venetian Night (lighted boats parading on the Chicago River) in July, the Chicago Air and Water Show along the shore of Lake Michigan in August, and the Chicago Jazz Fest around the Labor Day weekend.
		Rantoul holds The Gathering of Eagles Airshow in June, even though its Chanute Air Force Base closed several years ago.
		Nauvoo sponsors the Grape Festival in September to commemorate the vineyards that supply the local winery and the settlers who first brought the grape to this Mississippi River community.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566615_9/Illinois.html (683 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		MIU applied through the U.S. Department of Education to use most of the 2,174-acre Chanute Air Force Base for expansion of its Fairfield campus.
		The Air Force plans to close the base in September 1993.
		The university, as a non-profit educational institution, is trying to obtain the air base and its buildings at no cost through a public benefit transfer.
	minet.org /TM-EX/articles/0042 (339 words)

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