SAN ANTONIO - Official Photo Thread for San Antonio & Surrounding Communities! (Alamo: tile, architectural)

[DonMattingly]

Originally Posted by alfredomora

One of my very early shots from the Riverwalk

Beautiful!

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Randolph Air Force Base is named after Captain William Millican Randolph, an Austin native and a Texas A&M graduate, who was killed on February 17, 1928, when his AT-4 crashed on takeoff.

In 1930 Randolph Air Force Base was dedicated as a flying training base, a mission it maintains to this day. The Base is also known as the "West Point of the Air" – the name of a 1935 film shot on location at Randolph – and "the Showplace of the Air Force" because of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture in which all structures including hangars were constructed.
The symbol of the base is a large water tower atop Building 100, housing the headquarters for Randolph's major flying unit,
and has come to be known throughout the Air Force as "the Taj Mahal," or simply "The Taj".





Eight decades ago, Randolph AFB built a chapel with a nod to the city's heritage as a Spanish Catholic colony.
Workers carved a cross into the chapel's stone facade. They built stucco walls from a floor plan shaped in a cross pattern. And a few years later, donors paid for stained-glass windows that depict saints including Christopher, Michael and the Virgin Mary.
One window with a Jesus figure got its inspiration from the famed Rose Window at Mission San José.
Called Chapel 1, it's one of the base's most enduring landmarks. It was completed in 1934, long before the military adopted a policy that chapels may not have a religiously distinctive design. It also stands as a rare example of top brass paying for pricey design features unlikely to find such support today.
“They'll never build one like this again — not in the Air Force,” said Lt. Col. Robert Wido, joint base installation chaplain at Randolph. “It really is beautiful.”
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...never-be-built

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A T-43 combat systems officer trainer sits on the flightline Sept. 1, 2010, at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The T-43, a CSO training aircraft since 1973, was officially retired Sept. 17, 2010.

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The "Missing Man" Monument of four aircraft in V formation (missing one airplane) at Randolph Field, now Randolph Air Force Base, part of the U.S. Military's Joint Base San Antonio, Texas

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A T-38A from 560th Flying Training Squadron



"Red Tails" continue to fly in the 99th Flying Training Squadron at Randolph Air Force Base in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen. The airfield where the airmen trained is now the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site.
Tuskegee Airmen - Military Wiki - Wikia





RAFB airport traffic control tower



Aircraft hangars:



The Hap Arnold Wings are how Airmen commonly refer to the Army Air Corps symbol, the emblem used before the U.S. Air Force was created as its own military service in 1947.

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Boots at North Star Mall by elnina, on Flickr

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