Stewart Air National Guard Base, located in

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, is the base of the 105th Airlift Wing (105 AW), an

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unit of the

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and "host" wing for the installation. The airport also hosts extensive civilian facilities, known alternately as Newburgh-Stewart,

Stewart International Airport Stewart International Airport, officially New York Stewart International Airport , is a public/military airport in Orange County, New York, United States. It is in the southern Hudson Valley, west of Newburgh, south of Kingston, and southwest ...

or New York Stewart International. Stewart Airfield opened in 1934 at the direction of

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as a training facility for the nearby

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(West Point). The base is named in honor of 19th-century Scottish-born sea captain, Lachlan Stewart, and his son, who donated the land it now occupies. It was built out significantly during

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. In 1948 it transitioned to the newly formed

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to become the Stewart Air Force Base while also continuing its training mission with West Point. In 1958 it added a SAGE direction center, DC-02, controlling the

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. Most operations at Stewart wound down in the 1960s. The base was deactivated in 1970 and taken over by

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as a civilian airport. The current base opened in 1983 by agreement between the State and the ANG. The next year, it was the arrival airport for the freed American hostages from Iran.

Overview

Located in the Town of Newburgh, New York, the 105th Airlift Wing's mission is to provide peacetime and wartime inter-theater airlift operations using the

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. Newburgh is approximately north of New York City, NY and due south of Albany, the capital of New York State. The air national guard base encompasses 267 acres (107 ha) and contains 36 buildings, amounting to approximately 757,000 square feet (68,130 m²). There is no family or transient military housing, with military personnel residing outside of a radius normally being billeted in nearby hotels and motels under military contract arrangements.

Units

The day-to-day military population of Stewart ANGB is approximately 660 full-time

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personnel, both Air Reserve Technician (ART) and Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) personnel, plus approximately 150 additional active duty Army, AGR Army Reserve and AGR Army National Guard, active duty Marine Corps and Active Reserve Marine Corps personnel. This is further augmented on a daily basis by a fluctuating number of over 3,000 additional traditional, part-time

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and Selected Marine Corps Reserve (SMCR) personnel. Because of the operational flying missions, most of the personnel of the Air National Guard, the Army National Guard, the Army Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve are funded for, and perform, additional military duty in either a drilling status or an active duty status far in excess of the typical ground-based reserve or national guard unit. For example, on at least one weekend each month, the 105 AW's population surges to over 1,600 personnel in response to the monthly required Air National Guard unit training assembly (UTA), attended by nearly all of the 105 AW's personnel. In 1988, the

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became a tenant of the Stewart ANGB with the establishment of Marine Air Refueler and Transport Squadron Four Five Two (

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), along with

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(MALS-49) and Marine Aircraft Group 49 (MAG-49), Detachment Bravo. A

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unit of the

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, VMGR-452 has operated KC-130T Hercules aircraft available for worldwide tasking in support of Marine Expeditionary Forces and combatant commanders and is transitioning to the KC-130J Hercules. Stewart Army Subpost and the Stewart-Newburgh Armed Forces Reserve Center are also located on Stewart ANGB. The former supports the U.S. Military Academy, the 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment (1-1 INF BN) and the

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-equipped 2nd Aviation Detachment (2ND AVN DET), while the latter supports the consolidation of several smaller and obsolescent

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Centers and

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Armories throughout the Hudson River Valley, colocating their associated units at a single site with modern training facilities. The

also maintains the Stewart-Newburgh Armed Forces Reserve Center on the installation. In November 2010, it was announced that the Air Force had selected Stewart ANGB as its "preferred base" for eight

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jet cargo aircraft slated to be operated by the

for the

, with the twelve C-5A Galaxy cargo aircraft operated by the 105 AW at the base to be retired and replaced by the C-17s. In March 2011, Air Force officials announced that the 105 AW had been chosen as the final basing decision for eight C-17 Globemaster III mobility aircraft. The 105 AW's first C-17, AF Ser. No. 05-0105, arrived on 1 July 2011 and the wing commenced retiring their C-5 aircraft and transitioning to the C-17. This transition was completed in September 2012 with the departure of the wing's last C-5 aircraft.

Stewart Air National Guard Base - 105 AW C-5

New York Air National Guard * 105th Airlift Wing *

137th Airlift Squadron The 137th Airlift Squadron (137 AS) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard 105th Airlift Wing located at Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh, New York. The 137th is equipped with the C-17A Globemaster III. History World War II T ...

* 105th Maintenance Squadron * 105th Operations Group * 105th Operations Support Flight * 105th Mission Support Group * 213th Engineering Installation Squadron United States Marine Corps * Marine Air Refueler and Transport Squadron Four Five Two (

) "Yankees" * Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 49 ( MALS-49) * Marine Aircraft Group 49 ( MAG-49), Detachment Bravo United States Military Academy * 2nd Aviation Detachment (2ND AVN DET) "Wings of West Point"

Disaster Relief

In August 2005 the 105th Airlift Wing supported U.S. Air Force missions including the delivery of emergency supplies and personnel following Hurricane Katrina. Transported cargo and search and rescue teams to assist following the January 2010 Haiti earthquake. Debarkation point for the Air Force's airlift of critically needed utility vehicles and linemen for

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relief efforts in the Northeast In September 2017 the 105th Airlift Wing assisted in the delivery of vital equipment and aid supplies to Puerto Rico after devastating Hurricane Maria. Transporting more than 231 tons of cargo including 326 personnel, seven UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, 54 vehicles and 41 pallets of supplies.

Overview

Units

Disaster Relief

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