Joint Forces Training Base

4522 Saratoga Ave.
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-4216

BASE FACT SHEET
14JAN05

The Joint Forces Training Base is a full-service joint military training center and airfield. Centered in the greater Los Angeles-Orange County area, this installation serves a wide variety of government and public interests, while making critical assets available to the Nation and State in the event of a regional disaster or emergency.

The Department of the Navy established the Base in 1942 as a Naval Air Station supporting the war effort. Today there are 87 tenant entities representing military services, federal, state, municipal, public, private and nonprofit organizations. The larger of these agencies are the 40th Infantry Division (Mechanized) of the California Army National Guard, the 63rd Regional Readiness Command (US Army Reserve), Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Southern Region) and Operation Medfly of California’s Department of Food and Agriculture. Other JFTB tenants include the National Aquatic Center, home of the US Women’s Olympic Water Polo Team, the 9th Civil Support Team for Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Air Force Civil Patrol, the Marine G Company and the Army Airfield. The JFTB also houses the nation’s first Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP). The JFTB has a daily average of 850 employees and supports 3,500 military members for Guard and Reserve duty.

During regular operations the Base provides facilities to federal, state, county, and city government agencies. It is a community focal point for general public events. The base hosts an annual Wings, Wheels and Rotors Exposition, 5K/10K run and Independence Day Spectacular for the surrounding communities. The JFTB has also dedicated 4 baseball fields for the use of Los Alamitos Youth Baseball and encourages the use of its facilities by the community. The JFTB has its own community-focused Residential Advisory Board (RAB) to review and coordinate environmental issues on the base.

A premier training base, the JFTB provides classrooms, a distance learning and video teleconferencing center, and a variety of state-of-the-art training simulators. There are small-unit training areas, including the Anderson Drop Zone for parachute drills. Yearly, the Army Airfield averages between 165,000 and 169,000 flights and radar ground control approaches.

The JFTB provides a wide range of military support to civil authority during federal and state emergency and disaster mitigation operations. With two active runways, 10,000 and 6,000 feet, the Los Alamitos Airfield is the region’s primary airfield for emergency air transport of relief crews, humanitarian supplies, equipment relocation, and medical operations. It is the alternate site to support air transportation in the event of disaster impact to Los Angeles International Airport. The Base will support the emergency relocation of disaster support agencies and agency disaster mitigation activities, to include crew housing, sustenance, equipment staging, communications, warehousing of relief materials, secure facilities for hazardous material handling, and command post functions. Ground transport crews are dispatched to impacted areas for disaster mitigation through the Base and its many facilities. Hardtop areas and unimproved zones provide key space during multi-agency relief missions to the residing populace.

Point of contact is 2LT Jarvis at (562) 795-1330.