Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
“Ther once was a base called Mather AFB and the flyers out of there had a shoulder patch that said Air Training Command Headquarters West. At the time I think only two ATC bases were west of the Mississippi (Williams In Tempe, now also gone, and Mather itself).”
I’m not sure what timeframe this might have been. I know Mather was still training Nav’s when I graduated college in ‘89, but there are numerous ATC bases west of the Mississippi.
not any more. ATC went away in 1993, but yeah, the ‘west of the Mississippi was wrong. It should have been west of the Rio Grande. But in the early 1990s I do believe the only ATC bases left that were once part of ATC West were Mather, Williams, And a couple of tenant units at Fairchild AFB and up in Alaska that taught basic and arctic survival. During WWII, there were over 100 ATC training bases or auxiliary fields in California alone.
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