Nellis Air Force Base
| Nellis Air Force Base Las Vegas Air Force Base (1948) Las Vegas Army Airfield (1941) McCarran Field (c. 1935)  |
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| Part of Air Combat Command (1992) | |
| Clark County, Nevada, in the Great Basin physiographic section adjacent to North Las Vegas | |
| Coordinates | 36°14′57″N 114°59′46″W / 36.24917°N 114.99611°W |
| Type | Air Force Base |
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| Controlled by | United States Air Force |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1941 |
| In use | 1941–present |
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| Garrison |
 99th Air Base Wing
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| Elevation AMSL | 1,867 ft / 569 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°14′08″N 115°02′24″W / 36.23556°N 115.04000°WCoordinates: 36°14′08″N 115°02′24″W / 36.23556°N 115.04000°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | Nellis Air Force Base | ||||||||||||||
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Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada with military schools and more squadrons than any other USAF base. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in "Military Operations Area (MOA) airspace". associated with the nearby Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The base also has the Combined Air and Space Operations Center-Nellis.
The Nellis AFB mission of advanced combat training for composite strike forces is commonly conducted in conjunction with air and grounds units of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and allied forces. The base also supports operations at the nearby Creech Air Force Base, the Tonopah Test Range and the Nevada National Security Site. Nellis ground systems for range operations (e.g., by callsign "Nellis Control") include the Computer and Computed Subsystem used to receive microwave signals from the NTTR Ground Based Stations of the Tracking and Communications Subsystem (TCS) for presentation on Nellis' Display and Debrief SubSystem (DDS).
Nellis AFB covers about 11,300 acres (4,600 ha) in the northeast corner of the Las Vegas Valley, an alluvial basin in the Basin and Range Province. Since World War II, Nellis has had areas added, such as Area II in 1969, but still has about 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) of undeveloped space. One World War II runway has been removed. The base has 3 areas (I, II, III). The United States Geological Survey names five different locations for the base: "Nellis Air Force Base", the airfield, the post office, a Community College of Southern Nevada campus, and the census-designated place (CDP).
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