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Sheppard AFB

Facility · USA

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USAF training facility for Atlas and Titan crews operated here 1959-1976.

Established just before World War II as a technical training center, in February 1958 this Air Training Command facility began providing operational and maintenance crew training for the Atlas and Titan ICBM programs. The Atlas/Titan I training facility was dedicated in November 1959. During the early 1960s, Titan II training facilities were installed. Titan II missile crews trained at these facilities for the next two decades.

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