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Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos
Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos is a joint base in Los Alamitos, California, United States. Formerly operated as a Naval Air Station, the base contains the Los Alamitos Army Airfield and is sometimes called by that name. The base is also known as JFTB – Los Al or just JFTB. The base covers 1,319 acres and "supports 850 full-time employees and more than 6,000 National Guard and Reserve troops."
JFTB has an MWR with billeting, a pub, and a banquet hall. Fiddler's Green is the last remaining military pub in Orange County.
JFTB has significant training facilities, including an Engagement Skills Trainer, a Virtual Convoy Operations Trainer, a HMMWV Egress Assistance Trainer, a Laser Marksmanship Training System, and a Close Combat Tactical Trainer.
The airfield has two runways:
The airfield is home to Company A, 1st Battalion (Assault), 140th Aviation Regiment.
The JFTB Aquatics Training Center is an Olympic-size swimming pool 50 m by 25 m, which offers year-round lap swimming, swim lessons, and fitness classes. The women's national water polo team regularly practices at the facility.
In 1942, the current JFTB was established as Naval Air Reserve Base Los Alamitos, providing advanced training for U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot in addition to hosting units from nearby Naval Air Station Terminal Island/Reeves Field in San Pedro. The following year, it was renamed Naval Air Station Los Alamitos and began supporting fleet carrier air groups. In the post-World War II war period, its focus changed to support of Naval Air Reserve units following the release from active duty of many Naval Aviators, enlisted Naval Aircrewmen, and support personnel and their subsequent affiliation in the Naval Reserve. The air station continued this mission through the early years of the Cold War into the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
On 16 July 1957, then-Major John H. Glenn Jr., USMC, set a transcontinental air speed record, flying a F8U-1P Crusader from NAS Los Alamitos to NAS Floyd Bennett Field, New York, in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds. Project Bullet, as the mission was called, provided both the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed, and the first continuous transcontinental panoramic photograph of the United States. Glenn was awarded his fifth Distinguished Flying Cross for the mission.
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Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos
Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos is a joint base in Los Alamitos, California, United States. Formerly operated as a Naval Air Station, the base contains the Los Alamitos Army Airfield and is sometimes called by that name. The base is also known as JFTB – Los Al or just JFTB. The base covers 1,319 acres and "supports 850 full-time employees and more than 6,000 National Guard and Reserve troops."
JFTB has an MWR with billeting, a pub, and a banquet hall. Fiddler's Green is the last remaining military pub in Orange County.
JFTB has significant training facilities, including an Engagement Skills Trainer, a Virtual Convoy Operations Trainer, a HMMWV Egress Assistance Trainer, a Laser Marksmanship Training System, and a Close Combat Tactical Trainer.
The airfield has two runways:
The airfield is home to Company A, 1st Battalion (Assault), 140th Aviation Regiment.
The JFTB Aquatics Training Center is an Olympic-size swimming pool 50 m by 25 m, which offers year-round lap swimming, swim lessons, and fitness classes. The women's national water polo team regularly practices at the facility.
In 1942, the current JFTB was established as Naval Air Reserve Base Los Alamitos, providing advanced training for U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot in addition to hosting units from nearby Naval Air Station Terminal Island/Reeves Field in San Pedro. The following year, it was renamed Naval Air Station Los Alamitos and began supporting fleet carrier air groups. In the post-World War II war period, its focus changed to support of Naval Air Reserve units following the release from active duty of many Naval Aviators, enlisted Naval Aircrewmen, and support personnel and their subsequent affiliation in the Naval Reserve. The air station continued this mission through the early years of the Cold War into the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
On 16 July 1957, then-Major John H. Glenn Jr., USMC, set a transcontinental air speed record, flying a F8U-1P Crusader from NAS Los Alamitos to NAS Floyd Bennett Field, New York, in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds. Project Bullet, as the mission was called, provided both the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed, and the first continuous transcontinental panoramic photograph of the United States. Glenn was awarded his fifth Distinguished Flying Cross for the mission.