WELCOME TO GRAND FORKS AFB Welcome to Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota; a base in transition from air refueling tankers to remotely piloted aircraft which has given the United States a game-changing capability to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions throughout the world. In compliance with a 2005 Base Realignment and Closure directive, we successfully ended one half century of air refueling operations when the last KC-135 departed Grand Forks on December 4, ...

SAN DIEGO San Diego, named after Saint Didacus, is the second-largest city in California and the eighth largest city in the United States. Though San Diego's economy is multifaceted—biotechnology, defense manufacturing, agriculture, software development and microbreweries are some of the city's biggest money-makers—tourism is a cornerstone that can't be ignored. Tourism drastically affects the city's culture, and San Diego houses many local attractions, such as SeaWorld San Diego, Belmont amusement park, San ...