Oct. 15, 2020 AFCEC leads major airfield modernization at Wake Island Airfield The outpost, known as Wake Island Airfield, holds great significance to the Air Force because it serves as a trans-Pacific refueling depot for military missions in addition to being a military training and missile testing location.
Aug. 3, 2015 Securing Alaska’s airspace: Radar sites work around the clock All around Alaska and out into the Pacific, little white domes dot the mountainside, coastlines and islands -- the only tangible evidence of America's invisible armor.