PAF Camp Badaber

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Coordinates: 33°57′28″N 71°34′25″E / 33.9579°N 71.5737°E / 33.9579; 71.5737
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PAF Camp Badaber, formerly known as Peshawar Air Station, is a non-flying

air force base of the Pakistan Air Force and a former United States Air Force–Central Intelligence Agency[1] listening post, used by the 6937th Communications Group from July 17, 1959[2] until being evacuated on 7 January 1970,[3] when the facility was formally closed.[4] It was located in Badaber, a remote area about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. However, since 2021, sixty-five U.S. Air Force personnel have been stationed at Camp Badaber.[5]

Project Sand Bag

In 1955, the United States Air Force started to survey various locations in West Pakistan for a radio intercept site. At that time, the US was interested in radio transmission intercepts from the Soviet Union. The survey team recommended the site be located near Peshawar in West Pakistan. Its final location was in Badaber, a remote area about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the city of Peshawar, Pakistan.[6] Creating the site would be known as project Sand Bag.

Facilities

The United States established permission from

DoDDS
school.

Staff at the air base grew to about 800 personnel. An additional 500 support personnel provided other services such as mail handling, cooks, chaplains, teachers, etc.[8]

In September 1965, the tensions between India and Pakistan peaked. Construction crews built bomb shelters in the back yards of all family housing units for protection.[9]

Commanders

[8]

  • Col Ethyl Branham, Apr 58 – Apr 59
  • Col Long, Apr 59 – Apr 60
  • Col Julius Spooner, Apr 60 – Jun 61.
  • LTC Skinner (acting base commander)
  • Col Tom Hanley
  • Col Robert Goerder, Jun 61 – July 9, 1963
  • Col Thomas C. Hyde, July 9, 1963 – July 4, 1965
  • Col Henry Taylor, July 4, 1965 – Jun 67
  • Col Graydon K. "Rocky" Eubank, Commander, June 67 – June 69.
  • Col Bill Hezlip, Jul 69 – Jul 70

History

Peshawar Air Station was used as the communication station for the ill-fated May 1, 1960 flight of a

Gary Powers, which was shot down over the Soviet Union
.

The former station was later used as a training camp for

prisoners of war held captive at the camp.[11]

In December 1983 the Pakistan Air Force moved its Basic Staff School to the installation, which became PAF Camp Badaber. In August, 2007, the In-Service Education Scheme for mid-career officers was revitalized and replaced with Officers' Military Education (OME) in which the whole officers training programme was brought under the administrative and functional control of the Commandant, PAF Air War College. Thus Basic Staff School (BSS) and Junior Command and Staff School (JC&SS) were merged into one institution named as the JC&SS at Camp Badaber.

The camp

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants on 18 September 2015.[12]

Vocational Institute

33°57′28″N 71°34′25″E / 33.9579°N 71.5737°E / 33.9579; 71.5737

Asfandyar Ahmed Bokhari Shaheed Vocational Training Institute, KPK

Chief Minister

Isfandyar Ahmad Bukhari Shaheed
Vocational Training Centre at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Base Badaber on July 14, 2016.

The centre is named in the memory of the Pakistan Army officer who was killed in the 2015 attack.[13]

References

  1. ISBN 978-8-3757-1101-1
    . Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–7, Documents on South Asia, 1969–1972 – Office of the Historian". history.state.gov.
  3. ^ "New Page 1". www.6937th.org.
  4. ^ History of the base during American use Archived 2011-05-08 at the Library of Congress Web Archives. Peshawar Air Station Alumni Association.
  5. ^ "USA's Military Empire: A Visual Database". World BEYOND War. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
  6. ^ Noble, Barnes &. "No Results Page". Barnes & Noble.
  7. ^ "The US mounts". www.journalofamerica.net. Archived from the original on 2012-05-17.
  8. ^ a b "Unit History". www.6937th.org.
  9. ISBN 978-1-4990-5638-9
    .
  10. ^ Eduardo Real. "Zbigniew Brzezinski, Defeated by his Success".
  11. ^ Роман Шкурлатов (Roman Shkurlatov). "Архив: Последнее па Пешаварского вальса" Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine ("Archive: Last step of the Peshawar waltz"). Bratishka magazine, July, 2006. (in Russian)
  12. ^ "At least 29 killed, including army captain, as militants attack PAF base in Peshawar". The Express Tribune. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  13. ^ "Captain Isfandyar Bukhari Shaheed Vocational Training Centre opens". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
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