Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base
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| nearest_town = Martinsburg, West Virginia
| country = the United States
| image = File:40069 C-17 Globemaster III 167th Airlift Wing (167th AW) (33066403105).jpg
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| caption = 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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| type = Air National Guard Base
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| ownership = Department of Defense
| operator = US Air Force (USAF)
| controlledby = West Virginia Air National Guard
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| built = {{Start date|1955}}
| used = 1955 – present
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| garrison = 167th Airlift Wing (host)
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| website = {{URL|https://www.167aw.ang.af.mil}}
| IATA = MRB
| ICAO = KMRB
| FAA = MRB
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| WMO = 724177
| elevation = {{Convert|172.2|m|0}}
| r1-number = 8/26
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| footnotes = Airfield shared with Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport.
Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{Cite web|url=https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2008/00249ad.pdf#nameddest=(MRB)|title=Airport Diagram – Eastern WV Rgnl/Shepherd Fld (MRB)|date=16 July 2020|website=Federal Aviation Administration|access-date=22 July 2020}}
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{{for|civil airport information|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}} the U.S. Air Force has been investigating whether industrial chemicals have seeped from the 167th Airlift Wing base into the groundwater.{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/tri_state/west_virginia/air-force-exploring-whether-it-contaminated-berkeley-county-water/article_4d075120-1eed-11e6-812a-ffd59553d727.html | title=Air Force exploring whether it contaminated Berkeley County water | publisher=Herald Mail Media | work=Herald Mail | date=21 May 2016 | accessdate=25 May 2016 | author=Matthew Umstead}}
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". 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.
See also
References
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Category:Installations of the United States Air National Guard
Category:Martinsburg, West Virginia