F. E. Warren Air Force Base
Near Cheyenne, Wyoming
Just west of Cheyenne sits Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, the oldest continuously active military installation in the entire United States Air Force, established in eighteen sixty-seven as Fort David Allen Russell to protect Union Pacific Railroad workers from attack. In nineteen thirty, President Hoover renamed it for Francis E.
Warren, Wyoming's first state governor and a United States Senator for thirty-seven years, who had earned the Medal of Honor at age nineteen during the Civil War. Today the base is home to the Ninetieth Missile Wing, which operates Minuteman Three intercontinental ballistic missiles spread across three states. It organized the nation's very first ICBM wing when it joined Strategic Air Command in nineteen fifty-eight.
