Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, shortened as F.E. Warren AFB is a United States Air Force base (AFB) located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is one of three strategic-missile bases in the U.S. It was named in honor of Francis E. Warren in 1930. Warren AFB is home of the 90th Missile Wing, assigned to the Twentieth Air Force, Air Force Global Strike Command. The 90 MW operates the LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM. It is also the home of Twentieth Air Force, which commands all U.S. Air Force ICBMs.
A static display of intercontinental ballistic missiles at F.E. Warren AFB during 2012. From left are the Peacekeeper, the Minuteman III and the Minuteman I.
Former U.S. Army residence of General John J. Pershing at Warren AFB
A postcard showing the exterior barracks, circa 1941
These student repairmen install a terminal box atop a telephone pole. This is an example of the practical training received in the ATC installer repairman phase of the fixed wire communications course at Francis E. Warren AFB.
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming, as well as the county seat of Laramie County, with 65,132 residents, per the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Laramie County and had 100,512 residents as of the 2020 census. Local residents named the town for the Cheyenne Native American people in 1867 when it was founded in the Dakota Territory. Along with Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Topeka, Kansas, Cheyenne is one of three state capitals with an indigenous name in a state with an indigenous name.
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