Popular Culture
- The flight simulator game Jane's USAF features training missions that are done in Nellis AFB.
- A fictional version can be found in the 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- In the 2010 game Fallout: New Vegas, a post-apocalyptic Nellis AFB is featured as the home of a self-contained, xenophobic society known as the Boomers.
- The Combined Air Operations Center-Nellis (CAOC-N) is referenced as the location of the fictional experimental operations (call sign Beleaguered Castle) depicted in the 2011 film Source Code.
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