Has an Air Force base ever been attacked?

[Against ME]

In the History of the United States? My sister is thinking about joining the Air Force as a doctor, and she was talking about it, and we were trying to figure out if a base had ever been attacked.

I googled it for awhile, and came up with nothing, so does anyone happen to know of an example where one's been attacked, or were we correct in our assumption?

[Noordam]

1. Cam Ranh Bay , Viet Nam

was attacked by "terrorist".

[DemoTex]

3. Cam Ranh was attacked several times.

They got in a hospital there once and killed nurses and patients. While I was at Cam Ranh there were numerous rocket and mortar attacks. The VC got the POL (petroleum, oil, lubricants) dump while I was there. The most spectacular attack I ever saw was the night Viet Cong sappers got into the ammo dump. When it was all over, tons of US ordnance - including about 25 15,000-pound Blockbuster bombs - exploded over a six hour period. Surprisingly, there were no US casualties in the Cam Ranh ammo dump attack.

Other AFBs in Vietnam were regular targets of VC and NVA attacks. DaNang, Bien Hoa, and Tan Son Nhut (Saigon) come to mind.

[trof]

2. Not in the continental U.S.

Not to my knowledge.
Of course Hickam Field (now Air Force Base) during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Several in WW I, WW II, Korea, Viet Nam.

[Wcross]

4. She will be safe

The airforce is the safest armed service a person can join.(Unless your a pilot or P.J.)

[Kellanved]

5. a terrorist attack on the Frankfurt Airbase in 1985

But the terrorist organisation (RAF) responsible has been destroyed/disbanded.

[DS1]

6. Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii

Also known as the "Pearl Harbor" attack.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Does Gander Newfoundland have an airforce base?

I know it was a refueling stop. Either way you may be interested in the 1985 Crash at Gander. 248 Troops and 8 crew members were killed shortly after take off, when the plane blew up.


http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr/h920430-gander.htm

Flying home for Christmas in 1985, three years before the Pan Am bombing, 248 American soldiers and eight crew members died when their chartered DC-8 jet plunged to earth just after taking off from a refueling stop in Gander, Newfoundland. It was the worst U.S. military air disaster ever. Icing of the wings was immediately suggested as the cause, although Islamic Jihad terrorists just as quickly boasted of blowing up the jet.

It wasn't until 1989 that an Iran-contra connection to the tragedy was revealed. Arrow Air, the charter company, turned out to be one of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's regular arms shippers. Although most of the crash victims belonged to the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, returning from six months' duty with the multinational peacekeeping force in the Sinai, more than 20 Special Forces personnel trained for counterterrorist missions were also on board. Suspicions have recently deepened that they, like Charles McKee and the members of his hostage-rescue team on Pan Am Flight 103, were the target of an attack.

more...


Tragedy at Gander

Lot more detail at the above link.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Khobar Towers was an AF facility

IIRC