Randolph AFB

Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio
Part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC)
Bexar County, near San Antonio, Texas
T-38 Talons of the 560th Flying Training Squadron
Coordinates	29°31′46″N 098°16′44″W / 29.52944°N 98.27889°W / 29.52944; -98.27889 (Randolph AFB)
Type	Air Force Base
Site information
Controlled by	United States Air Force
Site history
Built	1928
In use	1930 – present
Garrison information
Garrison	902d Mission Support Group

Airfield information
IATA: RND ICAO: KRND FAA LID: RND
Summary
Elevation AMSL	761 ft / 232 m
Coordinates	29°31′46″N 098°16′44″W / 29.52944°N 98.27889°W / 29.52944; -98.27889Coordinates: 29°31′46″N 098°16′44″W / 29.52944°N 98.27889°W / 29.52944; -98.27889
Website	www.randolph.af.mil
Map
KRND Location of Randolph Air Force Base
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14L/32R 8,351 2,545 Concrete 14R/32L 8,351 2,545 Concrete

Randolph Air Force Base (IATA: RND, ICAO: KRND, FAA LID: RND) is a United States Air Force base located at Universal City, Texas (14.8 miles (23.8 km) east-northeast of Downtown San Antonio). The base is under the jurisdiction of the 902d Mission Support Group, Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and is the headquarters of AETC's Nineteenth Air Force.

Opened in 1931, Randolph has been a flying training facility for the United States Army Air Corps, the United States Army Air Forces, and the Air Force during its entire existence.

Randolph AFB is part of Joint Base San Antonio, an amalgamation of the United States Army Fort Sam Houston, the United States Air Force Randolph Air Force Base and Lackland Air Force Base, which were merged on 1 October 2010.

The base is listed as a census-designated place for statistical purposes, with a population of 1,241 counted at the 2010 census.

Randolph AFB is named after Captain William Millican Randolph, a native of Austin, who was on the base naming committee at the time of his death in a crash. It serves as headquarters of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) as well as the Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) and is known as "the Showplace of the Air Force" because of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture in which all structures including hangars were constructed. The symbol of the base is a large water tower atop Building 100, housing the headquarters for Randolph's major flying unit, the 12th Flying Training Wing (12 FTW). With its distinctive architecture, the wing's headquarters has come to be known throughout the Air Force as "the Taj Mahal," or simply "The Taj".