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The 11th Operations Group
The Air Force's 11th Operations Group, a mission unit at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, is part of the historic 11th Wing. The 11th OG supervises the operations and scheduling of the Air Force's premier ceremonial, musical, and chaplain units.
 
The United States Air Force Band
The United States Air Force Band is the premier musical organization of the U.S. Air Force. Stationed on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling at historic Hangar II, The USAF Band's official military life began Sept. 24, 1941, with the formation of the Bolling Army Air Forces Band.
Through numerous international concert tours with performances in more than 50 countries and 42 world capitals, the Band has come to be known as "America's International Musical Ambassadors." Also, the Band entertains troops deployed overseas and presents concerts from coast to coast through local performances and national concert tours. The USAF Band's ensembles include the Air Force Strings, Airmen of Note, Ceremonial Brass, Concert Band, Max Impact and Singing Sergeants. Collectively, these groups present more than 2,000 live performances annually.
• The highly acclaimed Guest Artist Series is held on Sunday afternoons in February and March at the 3,700-seat Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington,D.C.
• The Band's popular Summer Concert Series is held regularly during June, July and August at the Air Force Memorial and at other locations in the National Capital Region. The Jazz Heritage
Series, presented each fall, features the Airmen of Note in concert with the world's foremost jazz artists.
• Annual Holiday Concerts are presented the first weekend each December.
In addition to regular programs in the National Capital Region, the USAF Band can be heard in performances at area high schools, colleges, universities and concert halls.
All performances are free and open to the public. For the latest information on all performances, call the concert information line 202-767-5658 or visit the USAF Band's website at www.USAFBand.af.mil.
 
Chaplaincy at Arlington National Cemetery
Paying final respects to departed heroes, Air Force chaplains and chaplain assistants provide spiritual care and guidance to families as they commemorate their departed family members. They help provide the "final tribute on behalf of a grateful nation" in over 1,000 chapel and graveside funeral services annually at the nation's premier military shrine. For additional information or to contact the chaplaincy call 703-607-8951.
 
The United States Air Force Honor Guard
The United States Air Force Honor Guard is home to more than 200 men and women directly responsible for providing final military funeral honors at Arlington National Cemetery. "Sharp, crisp, and motionless," the members of the USAF Honor Guard are also called upon to train other Air Force base honor guards, and to support State Funeral plans any where they may occur. Members of the Air Force Honor Guard represent the Air Force in a variety of military and civilian ceremonies conducted throughout Washington, D.C., including events at the White House, Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknowns.
The Honor Guard also operates the Air Force's only precision drill team, which is dedicated to inspiring Air Force awareness among military and civilian audiences. Through its complex drill routines, the drill team attempts to personify the integrity, discipline, teamwork, and professionalism of every military mission.
 
For more information visit www.honorguard.af.mil or call 202-404-2428.
  
579th Medical Group
The 579th Medical Group has a proud history and enjoys a reputation of being an indisputable leader in quality medical and dental care. The group provides health care services supporting JBAB, Headquarters Air Force, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Headquarters Air Force District of Washington, three wings and 233 geographically separated units in 126 countries.
 
The group delivers medical and dental care to 20,000 tri-service beneficiaries assigned to the National Capital Region, including SECDEF, SECAF and CSAF. The group also directs an Advanced Education General Dentistry Residency Program, and plans, trains and deploys to support worldwide contingencies.
 
To make a medical appointment call 1-888-999-1212
 
 
The 579th Medical group consists of three squadrons:
 
579th Medical Operations Squadron
The 579th Medical Operations Squadron supports the health and readiness of Airmen and Sailors and their families on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and across the National Capital Region. Operating out of a number of locations across JBAB and at the Pentagon, the squadron offers a broad range of clinical and health promotion services, including family health, pediatrics, flight medicine, mental health, family advocacy, substance abuse, drug testing, optometry, public health, force health, bioenvironmental engineering, health and wellness, immunizations. Committed to the highest quality standards, MDOS serves as a proud member of the Air Force District of Washington, 79th Medical Wing and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling communities.
 
579th Medical Support Squadron
The 579th Medical Support Squadron supports Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling along with the eligible beneficiary population, Air Force District of Washington, the Department of Defense, and our nation's security by providing health support for the full range of military deployments and sustaining the health of members of the armed forces, their families, and others to advance our national security interests. The 579th Medical Support Squadron provides the highest standard of direct medical care and medical administrative services to JBAB units. These areas of expertise include pharmacy services, diagnostic imaging and clinical laboratory support. Superior logistical and administrative support is also provided through information system management, facility management, medical equipment and supply processing, orderly room, resource management, patient administration, TRICARE services, medical readiness and referral management.
 
579th Dental Squadron
The 579th Dental Squadron provides comprehensive dental care for active duty personnel assigned to Joint Base Anacostia-Bollling and the Washington metropolitan area, including restorative and preventive dentistry, endodontics (root canal therapy), periodontics, prosthodontics (tooth replacement), orthodontics, pediatric dentistry and oral surgery. The dental squadron is one of 13 in the Air Force that has an Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency program, and is one of the largest Air Force implant centers on the East Coast.
 
744th Communications Squadron
The 744th Communications Squadron provides network operations for Joint Base Andrews-NAF Washington and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, to include a help desk, network management, small computer support, and information protection. The squadron also provides administrative communications and customer training, technical and systems support for communications and computer systems including ground radio (land mobile radio, cellular phones and frequency management), telephone and client computer systems.
 
To contact the help desk call 202-767-8000.
 
Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 7FIS-OLA
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 7FIS-OLA is a field operating agency under the 7th Field Investigations Squadron Washington Field Office at Joint Base Andrews-NAF Washington. The 7FIS-OLA is responsible for providing independent, professional, criminal, fraud and counterintelligence investigative services to the Air Force and specified Defense Department elements within the National Capital Region.
 
The 7FIS-OLA consists of special agents who work to uncover facts surrounding felony crimes including robbery, sexual assault, homicide, narcotics and fraud. 7FIS-OLA focuses on identifying, investigating and neutralizing espionage and terrorist activities that threaten Air Force and Defense Department resources.
 
To speak with an agent call 202-767-7692.
 
Defense Intelligence Agency
The Defense Intelligence Agency is a Department of Defense combat support agency and an important member of the United States Intelligence Community. With more than 16,500 military and civilian employees worldwide, DIA is a major producer and manager of foreign military intelligence. They provide military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers and force planners, in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, in support of U.S. military planning and operations and weapon systems acquisition.
 
For more information visit www.dia.mil .
To contact DIA Public Affairs call 703-695-0071.
 
 
Air Force Departmental Publishing Office (AFDPO)
Located in Bldg. 94, AFDPO is the publishing manager for the Air Force secretariat and Air Force staff. AFDPO provides publishing products and services for administrative publications and forms to customers worldwide. AFDPO assists the office of primary responsibility with formatting and coordination requirements for publications and designing headquarters forms. AFDPO also manages the Air Force Publishing Distribution Center (AFPDC), located in Essex, Md., which is the central repository for storage and distribution of physical products used worldwide. It manages the centralized electronic repository for storage and dissemination of digitized publications and forms from departmental down to base level. And, it manages the central tagging operation that prepares all publications from headquarters to wing level for digital dissemination.
 
AFDPO is responsible for providing and maintaining the official software used for designing and filling out “standard” Air Force forms and assisting functional communities in developing interactive applications with more intelligent forms.
 
To contact the customer service desk call 202-404-2438.
 
 
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard Station Washington is located at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling's Capital Cove Marina. It's an operational unit responsible for ensuring the maritime safety and security of the National Capital Region.
The missions Station Washington conduct are truly unique to this area. In addition to the traditional missions of search and rescue and law enforcement, Station Washington works alongside a multitude of federal, state and local agencies to detect, deter and defend against terrorist attacks around our nation's capital.
For more information visit www.uscg.mil/d5/stawashingtondc/ or call 202-767-1194.
 
Civil Air Patrol
Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling is home to Civil Air Patrol's National Capital Wing headquarters and Challenger 1 Cadet Squadron located at 200 McChord St., Suite 111.
The National Capital Wing is the primary point of contact for all CAP activities and Air Force support missions in the Washington, D.C., metro area. The wing currently has six subordinate squadrons, including the Challenger 1 Cadet Squadron - the sister squadron to the Air Force Honor Guard.
 
CAP's National Capital Wing encompasses the greater Washington, D.C., metro area and has approximately 223 volunteer officers and senior members and 162 cadets. Federal employees and military personnel can support the wing through the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area - CFC charity number 26757. Follow the wing on Facebook for current updates, or go to NatCapWing.org.
 
Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 61,000 members nationwide. CAP, in its Air Force auxiliary role, performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the AFRCC with saving 113 lives in fiscal year 2010. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to more than 23,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for 70 years.
 
Phone Numbers
Administrator: 202-767-4405
HQ Fax: 202-767-5695
Commander: 202-767-4405
Public Affairs: 301-751-2011
Challenger 1 Cadet Squadron DC060: 202-767-4405
 
Navy Ceremonial Guard
Established in 1931, The Navy Ceremonial Guard Is the Official Honor Guard of the United States Navy, With the Primary Mission of Representing the Navy in Presidential, Joint Armed Services, Navy And Public Ceremonies In The Nation's Capital, Across The Country And Around The World.
 
The Ceremonial Guard is comprised of approximately 200 junior Navy enlisted men and women. Guardsmen are hand selected from the Navy's Great Lakes Recruiting Command based on stringent physical and ethical standards. Only the tallest (a minimum 6'0" for men and 5'10" for females), fittest and most motivated seamen recruits are picked to serve alongside the Navy's finest junior sailors.
Upon reporting to the command, guard recruits embark on an intensive 10 week training program, which is designed to test their resolve, commitment, and endurance. Guardsmen are trained to maintain stoic, motionless military tightness for extended periods of time, so that they will be prepared to hold their bearing through the entirety of the longest of Military Ceremonies. Only the strongest willed sailors persevere. They are trained in the areas of rifle drill manual and marching as well as the daily labor of maintaining the rigorous physical and uniform standards demanded of Ceremonial Guardsmen. Guardsmen and trainees alike spend hours every day pressing their uniforms and shining their shoes and belt brass. Meticulous inspections are performed prior to every ceremony. Once recruits graduate training and become Ceremonial Guardsmen, they are required to join one of the Guard's specialized platoons, including the Ceremonial Drill Team, Color Guard, Firing Party, and Casket Bearer Platoons.
 
Guardsmen perform in a myriad of high visibility Navy and Joint Service Ceremonies. Navy elements have marched in Presidential Inauguration Parades, State Funeral Processions, and numerous annual celebrations. Full Honors Presidential Arrivals at the White House, Navy and Joint Service Wreath Laying Ceremonies at the Navy Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Chief of Naval Operations Arrivals at the Washington Navy Yard are among the many events that the Ceremonial Guard executes routinely with unparalleled military bearing and accuracy. The Guard's most somber duty is the delivering of funeral honors at every Navy funeral service conducted in Arlington National Cemetery. This honor is performed by the Guard's casket bearers, firing party and marching elements on a daily basis and over twenty times every week.
 
The Navy Ceremonial Guard is the face of the Navy and publicly personifies our Navy core values, maintaining the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. These young sailors represent the best and brightest of today as well as the future leaders of the Navy.
 
Quarterdeck number is 202-433-0050.
 
The White House Communications Agency (WHCA)
The White House Communications Agency (WHCA), originally known as the White House Signal Detachment (WHSD), was officially formed by the War Department on 25 March 1942 during the Roosevelt Administration.
The detachment was activated under the Military District of Washington to provide normal and emergency communications requirements in support of the President of the United States. WHSD provided mobile radio, teletype, telephone, and cryptographic aids in the White House and at Shangri-La, now known as Camp David.
In 1954, during the Eisenhower Administration, WHSD was reorganized under the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Army Signal Corps as a Class II unit and renamed the White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA).
In 1962 WHASA was discontinued by order of the Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy, transferred to the auspices of the Defense Communications Agency under operational control of the White House Military Office, and reestablished as the White House Communications Agency.
WHCA played silent, significant roles in many historical events to include World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Panama and Guatemala, Operation Just Cause, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.
WHCA was also a key player in documenting the assassination of President Kennedy and the attempt on the lives of Presidents Ford and Reagan.
The Agency evolved over the past 60 years from a small team of 32 personnel working out of the basement of the White House to a self-supporting joint service command. Headquarters for WHCA is at Anacostia Navy Yard.
WHCA also has supporting detachments in Washington, D.C. and various locations throughout the United States. WHCA is organized into functional areas each with its own mission in support of the total WHCA mission of Presidential support.
For more information visit www.disa.mil/WHCA or call 301-225-5550
 
Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1)
Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1) was established 1 December 1947 at Marine Base Quantico, Virginia, as an experimental unit tasked with testing and evaluating military helicopters when rotary wing flight was still in its infancy. Founded to test tactics, techniques, procedures and equipment, HMX-1 has since then, become synonymous with helicopter transport of the President of the United States.
In 1957, rotary wing movement of the President, Vice President, and other important personnel originated, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower – away on vacation – was urgently needed back at the White House. What would have been a two hour motorcade trip was reduced to a seven minute helicopter ride. On that day, HMX-1 earned its most prestigious of missions – direct support of the President.
 
In addition to Presidential and VIP support, the “Nighthawks” of HMX-1 maintains the role as the primary Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) unit for Marine assault support helicopters and related equipment. Indeed, the same pilots and aircrew supporting the President are often testing and evaluating aircraft and systems used by the Fleet Marine Forces. HMX-1 aircraft and Marines also support the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in the development of helicopter tactics, techniques and landing force equipment, as well as for student demonstrations and helicopter indoctrination. The squadron currently operates a fleet of “White Top” VH-3D "Sea King" and VH-60N "White Hawk” and the “Green Top” CH-46E "Sea Knight".