Base Name: ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE
Service: Air Force
Description: Altus hosts the nation’s C-17 and KC-135 Strategic Airlift and Air Refueling Training School and maintains a force of 550 mobility airmen available for immediate worldwide deployment. It also acts as the wartime aerial port of embarkation for 27,000-plus soldiers and their equipment from Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
State/country: OKLAHOMA
Population: 1,333 active duty, 1,691 dependents
Zip: 73523
City/metro: Altus, Jackson County
Phone Numbers:
- Main Phone: (580) 481-6761, DSN 312-866-6761
- Information and referral services: (580) 481-6761, DSN 312-866-6761
- Housing: (580) 481-7235 or (580) 379-4002, DSN 312-866-7235
- Child care: (580) 481-7502, DSN 312-866-7502
- Schools: (580) 481-6761/5439, DSN 312-866-5439
- Youth services: (580) 481-7903/6209, DSN 312-866-7903
- Family: (580) 481-6761, DSN 312-866-6761
- Temporary lodging: (580) 482-7356, DSN 312-866-7356
- Health care: (580) 481-5235/5013, DSN 312-866-5235
- Commissary number: (580) 481-6529/7999, DSN 312-866-6529
- Exchange number: (580) 481-8733/7009, DSN 312-866-8733
Chaplain: (580) 481-7485, DSN 312-866-7485