Dyess Air Force Base
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![Abilene Army Airfield, mid-1940s.](/Images/godic/202501/10/Dyessafb-mid1940s5534.jpg")
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Dyess Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS, FAALID: DYS) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Abilene, Texas.
The host unit at Dyess is the 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) assigned to the Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force. The 7 BW is one of only two B-1B Lancer strategic bomber wings in the United States Air Force, the other being the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota.