Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base

Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base
Near Martinsburg, West Virginia in the United States
A C-17A Globemaster III assigned to the 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard, based at Shepherd Field ANGB.
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Coordinates	39°24′07″N 77°59′04″W
Type	Air National Guard Base
Site information
Owner	Department of Defense
Operator	US Air Force (USAF)
Controlled by	West Virginia Air National Guard
Condition	Operational
Website	www.167aw.ang.af.mil
Site history
Built	1955 (1955)
In use	1955 – present
Garrison information
Garrison	167th Airlift Wing (host)
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: MRB, ICAO: KMRB, FAA LID: MRB, WMO: 724177
Elevation	172.2 metres (565 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 8/26 2,686.8 metres (8,815 ft) Asphalt/Grooved
Airfield shared with Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport. Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

For civil airport information, see Eastern WV Regional Airport.

Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base is the home base of the West Virginia Air National Guard 167th Airlift Wing located at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport, 4 miles south of Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Environmental issues

As of May 2016^[update] the U.S. Air Force has been investigating whether industrial chemicals have seeped from the 167th Airlift Wing base into the groundwater.^[2]

In August 2014, the Air Force had found 10 areas where aqueous film forming foam may have entered the soil including "a former fire-training area, three hangars, two buildings, a fire-truck testing area, two storage areas and a wastewater-treatment area".^[2] The military seeks to determine if the compounds are present, and if they seeped into the groundwater.

The Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport is in the Big Springs wellhead-protection area for the city's water supply.^[2]

See also

West Virginia National Guard

References

1. "Airport Diagram – Eastern WV Rgnl/Shepherd Fld (MRB)" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
2. Matthew Umstead (21 May 2016). "Air Force exploring whether it contaminated Berkeley County water". Herald Mail. Herald Mail Media. Retrieved 25 May 2016.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency