Seeligson Air Force Base

Seeligson Air Force Base, formerly Seeligson Field, is a US Military installation located just North of Premont, Texas. It is commanded by Major General Joseph Elliott Kawallis and is the home of The Wrangler Squadron and The USAF Skywatch Command. The base, until recently, was responsible for primary Air Defense for the Rio Grande Valley and Coastal Bend until it was slated to be closed in late-2009. Following an "incident" with a "UFO," the base was granted a new life in dealing with extraterrestrial and super-science matters.

In addition to a being the home base of an A-10 Thunderbolt fighter squadron, Seeligson A.F.B. has been host to several "visiting units," one of which was an armor demonstration under General John F. Morelli. As of late 2010, extensive launch and "space port" style facilities have begun construction as well as new base operations buildings and facilities. It is hoped that launches of experimental vehicles and rockets will generate more interest in keeping the installation open.

## Command Structure

While initially in a state of flux following the Battle of Dick Kleberg Park in January 2009, the overall facility is commanded by Maj. General Joseph E. Kawallis. Kawallis was initially in command of the base before it was slated for decommissioning and was tasked with closing the facility and moving its assets to other USAF installations. Once it was clear that the base was to remain open to house the SPECIAL OPERATIONS of LION SQUAD Air force Auxiliary, Kawallis was reinstated as the base's overall commander.

In that there are several commands beneath that echelon, Maj. General Kawallis delegated the these tasks to other. Wrangler Squadron, the AIR STRIKE arm of the base was assigned Ft.Lt. Percival Forbes-Smyth, a British Exchange officer assigned to LION SQUAD who had extraordinary qualifications as seen in his service in Iraq and Afghanistan, in mid-2009. USAF SKYWATCH was assigned to Col. Harvey Lemmeck in early 2010. Col. Lemmeck is a noted scientist who had been overseeing a communications project at a station at the South Pole. Col. Lemmeck's task would be to restructure the USAF SKYWATCH using his vast scientific knowledge and skills into a nexus of information gathering to assist LION SQUAD in its missions as well as to reconnoiter extraterrestrial threats to North America.

## History

Seeligson Field was opened on November 5, 1942 by Maj. General John F. Curry as a US Army Air Force training base and repair facility. It remained in this capacity until the end of the Second World War. At that time, the base was temporarily closed operating only as an auxiliary landing field for pilots training in San Antonio and Naval Air Station Kingsville. The base was reopened as Seeligson Air Force Base in 1947 and took up its roll as a "SKY WATCH" facility following events at Roswell Air Force Base that same year.

Extraterrestrial activities reached a peak in the 1950s and 60s and the base was the nerve center of the "SKY WATCH" missions which, in the late-1960s including tracking NASA space missions and providing training for would-be astronauts assigned to the AIR FORCE.

In the 1990s, the base was rigged to include missile defense measures as the UFO threat seemed to have subsided considerably. These missile programs eventually became somewhat dormant resulting in a major drawdown of the base.

By 2009 the base was slated to be closed and its resources moved to Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio.

## Units Assigned

There are two major units assigned to Seeligson A.F.B. a fighter squadron known as The Wrangler Squadron and The US Sky Watch Command. The two units operate together to address issues regarding alien encounters from Outer Space.

### The Wrangler Squadron

Activated in late 1942 as a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomb squadron, trained under Second Air Force. Deployed to England in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during April 1943, assigned to VIII Bomber Command as a strategic bombardment squadron. Participated in the air offensive over Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe until German capitulation in May 1945. Personnel demobilized in England and returned to the United States; squadron reassigned to Second Air Force and was programmed to be re-equipped with B-29 Superfortresses for deployment to Pacific Theater. Japanese capitulation led to units inactivation in September 1945, being neither manned or equipped.

Activated in the postwar reserve as a B-29 squadron.

The mission of the squadron changed in 1952 as the air defense of South Texas. During the postwar years, the fighter pilots have been trained locally under a commanding general officer. This duty is primarily to deal with "UFOs,"which were seen most often in the 1950s and 1960s.

## Base Facilities

Since the base was slated to be closed in 2009 or 2010 many of its facilities had been dismantled and sent to other bases. This changed after the STEVE INCIDENT when Seeligson AFB was retooled as a "SPACE PORT and LAUNCH FACILITY" and many new an cutting edge instrumentalities were installed. These, however, would not be fully in place until 2012.

Space Launch Rocket Complex

The Post Exchange

Base Operations

The Post Hospital

Bachlor Officer's Quarters

Lt. General Arthur MacDouglas Computer Center

USAF SKYWATCH Center

The Wrangler's Nest Recreation Center

The Wrangler's Nest

The Seeligson Security Vault Complex

## Personnel

Maj. Gen, J. E. Kawallis, USAF- Commanding General

Capt Mari Solinski- Special Officer

Capt Zandra Niko- Special Officer

Capt Douglas MacKillroy

1st Lt. Eric Robinson

CMSgt Lewis Edward Barker- Maj. Gen. Kawallis' assistant