Stewart Air National Guard Base

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Not to be confused with Sewart Air Force Base.

Stewart Air National Guard Base is the home of the 105th Airlift Wing (105 AW) of the New York Air National Guard. The former Stewart Air Force Base is also known as Newburgh-Stewart IAP and Stewart International Airport. The military portion of this now-joint civil-military airport is known as Stewart Air National Guard Base (Stewart ANGB).

Located in Newburgh, New York. The 105th Airlift Wing's mission is to provide peacetime and wartime inter-theater airlift operations using the C-5A “Galaxy” cargo aircraft. Newburgh is approximately 60 miles north of New York City, NY and 100 miles due south of Albany, the capital of New York State. The air national guard base encompasses 267 acres (107 ha) and contains 36 buildings, amounting to approximately 757,000 square feet (68,130 m²). There is no family or transient military housing, with military personnel residing outside of a 50 miles radius normally being billeted in nearby hotels and motels under military contract arrangements.

The day-to-day base population of Stewart ANGB is approximately 660 full-time personnel, comprised of both Air Reserve Technician (ART) and Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) personnel. This is further augmented on a daily basis by a fluctuating number of traditional part-time air national guardsmen. Because of the operational flying mission, most of the wing's personnel are funded for, and perform, additional military duty in either a drilling status or an active duty status far in excess of the typical ground-based reserve or national guard unit. One weekend each month, the wing's population surges to over 1,600 personnel in response to the monthly required Air National Guard unit training assembly (UTA) by nearly all of the wing's personnel.

Stewart ANGB is also host to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452 (VMGR-452), a unit of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing of the United States Marine Corps Reserve, flying the KC-130T Hercules aircraft.