Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base is a former military airport, now a joint civil-military airport, located in Westhampton, 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Westhampton Beach, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. It is approximately 80 miles (130 km) east of New York City.
Known as Suffolk County Air Force Base until 1969, then Suffolk County Air National Guard Base until 1991, when it was renamed in honor of Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, a flying ace in both World War II and the Korean War, who was the commander of the 52nd Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Suffolk County AFB from 1964 through November 1967 when he retired.
Today, the airport is used by the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing (106 RQW), an Air Combat Command (ACC)-gained unit.
The airport's collocated civil operations operate at Francis S. Gabreski Airport.
Read more about Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base: History
Famous quotes containing the words francis, air, national, guard and/or base:
“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“My companion and I, having a minute’s discussion on some point of ancient history, were amused by the attitude which the Indian, who could not tell what we were talking about, assumed. He constituted himself umpire, and, judging by our air and gesture, he very seriously remarked from time to time, “you beat,” or “he beat.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has to bring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one who obeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word “accident” makes sense.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren’t ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.”
—Mary Pipher (20th century)