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U-2 Dragon Lady

The U-2 provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance, day or night, in direct support of U.S. and allied forces.

T-38 Talon

The T-38A Talon is a 2-seat, twin-engine, supersonic jet trainer used in a variety of roles because of its design, economy of operations, ease of maintenance, high performance and exceptional safety record. Air Education and Training Command is the primary user of the T-38C for joint specialized undergraduate pilot training. Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command and the National Aeronautics and Space administration also use the T-38A in various roles. The T-38A is used at Beale AFB as the companion trainer to the U-2 program.

PAVE PAWS

PAVE PAWS is a radar system operated for missile warning and space surveillance, primarily to detect and track sea-launched (SLBM) and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

ACC Fact Sheet

Air Combat Command, with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Va., is a major command created June 1, 1992, by combining its predecessors Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command. ACC is the primary provider of combat air forces to America's unified combatant commands. Learn more about ACC.

9th Reconnaissance Wing

The wing also maintains a high state of readiness in its expeditionary combat support forces for potential deployment in response to theater contingencies. The 9th RW is composed of more than 3,000 personnel in four groups at Beale and multiple overseas operating locations. At any given moment, day or night, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, there is probably a U-2 aircraft from the 9th RW flying an operational mission somewhere in the world.

Beale's History

Camp Beale opened in October 1942 as a training site for the 13th Armored and the 81st and 96th Infantry Divisions. During World War II, Camp Beale's 86,000 acres were home for more than 60,000 soldiers, a prisoner-of-war encampment and a 1,000-bed hospital. In 1948, the camp transferred from the Army to the Air Force.

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  • 5th Reconnaissance Squadron

    Lineage.  Organized as 5 Aero Squadron on 5 May 1917. Redesignated as Squadron A, Souther Field, GA, on 15 Jul 1918. Demobilized on 11 Nov 1918. Reconstituted, and consolidated (1924) with 5 Aero Squadron, which was organized on 24 Oct 1919.  Redesignated as: 5 Squadron (Observation) on 14 Mar 1921;

  • 9th Operations Support Squadron

    MissionThe 9th Operations Support Squadron’s mission is to drive the 9th Operations Group and 9th Reconnaissance Wing’s global reconnaissance operations through world-class training and support of the U-2S Dragon Lady, T-38A Talon and KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. Functional areas of expertise

  • 9th Maintenance Operations

    MISSIONThe 9th Maintenance Operations Flight provides world-class staffing, and training of aviation maintenance personnel. Additionally, the 9th MXO provides world-class resource planning, scheduling, management, and analysis to ensure a ready, viable Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

  • 9th Comptroller Squadron

     MISSION STATEMENT:Financing the fight by providing customer focused financial services and decision support to enable the war fighters of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and Team Beale.ORGANIZATION INFORMATION:The 9th Comptroller Squadron consists of 40 military, civilian and contractor personnel that

  • U-2 Pilot Application

    ---- FLYING THE "DRAGONLADY" ----The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is looking for a few officers with the professionalism and flying skills necessary to pilot the U-2 "Dragonlady", and provide our nation's decision-makers with critical high-altitude Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance.U-2

  • DETACHMENT 4, 9TH OPERATIONS GROUP

    MISSIONThe mission of Detachment 4 is to launch and recover RQ-4B Global Hawk High-Altitude ISR assets in support of EUCOM, AFRICOM, and CENTCOM theater mission taskings.ORGANIZATIONDetachment 4 has approximately 110 unit personnel - 65 active duty and 45 contractors. The active duty component spans

  • 48th Intelligence Support Squadron

    The 48th Intelligence Support Squadron is one of three squadrons aligned under the 548th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group. The unit was activated at Beale Air Force Base on 30 November 1994, and its lineage can be traced throughout the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and

  • 9th Intelligence Squadron

    MissionThe 9th Intelligence Squadron (Air Combat Command), home to the “BASHR Eagles” located at Beale Air Force Base, California conducts 24/7 real-time Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations as a part of Distributed Ground Site-2 (DGS-2) in direct support of combat

  • 548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group

    Mission To provide the right intelligence to the right person at the right time by analyzing imagery and signals intelligence collected by multiple platforms and creating tailored, all-source analytical reports in response to theater requirements.Vision Warrior Airmen and ISR airpower