Aberdeen Proving Ground

Spread out along 20 miles of Chesapeake Bay, Aberdeen Proving Ground is home to a diverse array of weapons development and testing programs. The installation covers 72,516 acres, ranging from heavily industrialized areas (the base has over 2,000 buildings) to remote testing ranges on peninsulas, bays, and tidal areas. The Edgewood area of the Proving Ground has been the nation's primary chemical and biological weapons development location since World War I, and is now littered with contamination and unexploded chemical weapons. Over 15,000 employees work at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Location: 30 miles NE of Baltimore
State: MD
http://www.apg.army.mil/

Adak Naval Station

A remote and barren outpost on an island in the middle of the Aleutian Chain, the Naval Air Facility in Adak had a community of 5,000 as recently as a few years ago, but has been closed by recent BRAC decisions and is largely abandoned now. The facilities at Adak are especially built for the harsh environment, which is very seismically active and extremely windy. There are no other communities on Adak, and the treeless island is littered with ash from nearby volcanoes. Anti-submarine warfare surveillance aircraft were stationed here, and chemical warfare material has contaminated portions of the base.
Location: 1,200 miles SW of Anchorage, on Adak Island
State: AK
County: Aleutians West
Latitude / Longitude: N51 47.0400 / W176 38.2500
http://www.adakisland.com/tour/
http://www.akaction.net/pages/critical/adak.html

Site Name: Air Force Plant 42

A major Air Force aircraft development and construction facility, with over eight million square feet of covered space. Contractors with substantial structures at the site include Northrop-Grumman, Rockwell/McDonnell Douglas/Boeing, NASA, and Lockheed-Martin's Skunk Works. Aircraft developed here include the B1-B bomber (Rockwell), B-2 stealth bomber (Northrop), SR-71 surveillance aircraft (Lockheed) and, currently, several UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) models. EG&G operates an terminal inside the base, providing air transport to other aerospace R&D centers such as Groom Lake (Area 51).
Location: 80 NE of Los Angeles, in Palmdale
State: CA
County: Los Angeles
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/afp-42.htm

Air Force Propulsion Lab, Leuhman Ridge

One of the largest rocket test sites in the USA. The Air Force Research Lab's Propulsion Directorate has its primary field lab at the remote northeast corner of Edwards AFB, on and around Leuhman Ridge, with additional test facilities on Haystack Butte, covering a total of 65 square miles of the base. The Air Force Research Lab (used to be called Phillips Lab) is one of the primary Air Force labs, concerned with directed energy weapons, space-related defense, and propulsion systems. The Lab has an annual budget of more than $600 million, and is headquartered at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with other branches of the lab at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts. The Edwards facilities serve the Space Experiments Directorate and the Propulsion Directorate. There is a space simulation facility as part of the Astronautics Lab, and several rocket engine test stands, some of which are visible from the highway, prominently sticking out of the top of Leuhman Ridge.
Location: Edwards Air Force Base, N. Edwards
State: CA
County: Kern
Latitude / Longitude: N34 54.1700 / W117 53.0100
http://www.pr.afrl.af.mil/

Air Force Research Lab Headquarters (Phillips Lab)

The Air Force Research Lab (called Phillips Laboratory until 2000), is headquartered at Kirtland Air Force Base. The Laboratory is one of the Air Force's major research and development labs, and is a focal point for all space- and missile-related research and technology; including geophysics, propulsion, space vehicles, survivability, and directed-energy weapons. The Laboratory has an annual budget of over $600 million, and has nearly 1,900 military and civilian employees at three locations: Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico; Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts; and Edwards Air Force Base, California. It is part of Air Force Materiel Command and reports to and supports the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
Location: S Albuquerque, on Kirtland Air Force Base
State: NM
http://www.afrl.af.mil/

Alameda Naval Air Station Site

The Navy began building the 1,734 acre base on Alameda Island in the late 1930's, and for over 50 years it was a repair and maintenance facility for Navy aircraft, including carrier-based planes and helicopters. It was closed by BRAC in 1997, and is now in the lengthy transition stage from a military base to a civilian extension of the City of Alameda. The base once employed as many as 15,000 people, but now has a couple thousand working on it at most. Large maintenance hangars are used as soundstages, tradeshow exhibit fabrication, motor coach conversion, and other light industries. The former seaplane lagoon is a man-made harbor, flanked by expanses of asphalt, a port area with reserve military cargo vessels stationed there, engine test buildings, and a former corrosion control facility. The west end of the island, including the main runways, is again restricted to the public, this time as a wildlife refuge. The refuge covers over 500 acres of the base, including the runways, munition bunkers and the main landfill, where thousands of tons of toxic material was dumped for decades.
Visitation Information: The built-up areas of the former Naval Air Station are now open to the public, and the aircraft carrier (the USS Hornet) docked there alongside the MARAD ships is a museum. There is also a base museum, at the end of Atlantic Avenue next to the lagoon, which is open on some weekends. The expanses of asphalt outside the refuge fence, including the west side of the lagoon, are accessible through some parking lots between the hangars.
Location: Five miles E of San Francisco, in Alameda
State: CA
County: Alameda
Latitude / Longitude: N37 47.2500 / W122 19.3100
http://www.alameda-point.com/
http://www.dtic.mil/envirodod/derpreport95/vol_1/al.html

Albany Marine Corps Logistics Base

A 3,500 acre supply and repair center for the Marine Corps' East Coast and Atlantic Ocean operations. Employing over 4,000 people, the installation is equivalent in many respects to the West Coast's Barstow Marine Corps Logistics Base, near Barstow, CA. In addition to supporting Marine Corps bases stateside and overseas, MCLB Albany supports the Maritime Pre-positioning Service, which maintains the stock of the fleet of 13 Marine Corps "forward-based" (pre-positioned) supply ships, located all over the world (at places like Diego Garcia Island, a busy US base in the Indian Ocean; and in the Mediterranean Sea; and on Guam. These ships are stocked with weapons, amphibious vehicles, ammunition, and food, to sustain 16,500 fighting marines for 30 days. They are dispatched to conflict sites to provide immediate support for the Marine Corps, which often have the first units arriving at an international US forces operation.
Location: 175 miles S of Atlanta
State: GA
http://www.ala.usmc.mil/

Amherst College Strategic Air Command Bunker

Andrews Air Force Base

Andrews serves primarily as a VIP airport, flying heads of state into and out of the Washington DC area, using helicopters, large jetliners, and everything in between. It is home of Air Force One, the president's personal air shuttle. Related to this function is a medical evacuation unit, a small logistics center, and a communications unit. The 4,320 acre base is home to 26,000 military and civilian workers and their families.
Location: 10 miles SE of Washington, DC
State: MD
Latitude / Longitude: N38 48.3900 / W76 52.0200
http://www.andrews.af.mil/

Anniston Army Depot

A munitions storage and maintenance center, Anniston employs over 2,000 people and covers 25 square miles of land. Tanks and other equipment are repaired and tested here, but historically Anniston's main role has been as a major munitions storage site, since WWII. Chemical weapons are among the munitions stored here (7.2% of nation's chemical weapons stockpile), mostly M55 rockets shells with Sarin, and VX, as well as Mustard gas, which are stored in some of the hundreds of earthen "igloos" at Anniston. Over the years many of the chemical weapons cannisters have leaked, and hundreds were disposed of in unknown locations. One of eight sites in this country where the Army stores obsolete chemical weapons. The Army would like to build an incinerator to dispose of the material, similar to the controvercial and recently finished chemical agent incinerator at Tooele Depot in Utah.
Location: 50 miles E of Birmingham, 10 miles W of Anniston
State: AL
County: Calhoun
http://www.anad.army.mil/

Arnold Air Force Base

The base consists almost exclusively of the Arnold Engineering Development Center, the largest flight simulation test facility in the world. Over 50 wind tunnels and test cells are used for testing aircraft, missiles, rockets, engines, and satellites. Employs 3,500 people, and has an annual budget of over $300 million.
Location: 70 miles S of Nashville
State: TN
http://www.arnold.af.mil/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/arnold.htm

Atlanta Naval Air Station

A 166-acre installation, supporting Naval and Marine aircraft. Aircraft here include F/A-18 fighter jets, and Cobra attack helicopters. Located adjacent to Dobbins Air Force Base and a major Lockheed military aircraft plant at Marietta.
Location: 15 miles NW of Atlanta, near Marietta
State: GA
Latitude / Longitude: N33 54.4100 / W84 31.4700
http://www.nasatlanta.navy.mil/