• More than 23,000 people work at the base. They include 13,000 civilians, 4,700 full-time military personnel, 3,700 contractors and 1,600 reservists.

• Construction began in 1940 as World War II loomed.

• The base occupies 6,698 acres at the Davis/Weber county line with more than 1,400 buildings and 13 million square feet of floor space.

• Hill runs the Utah Test and Training Range 70 miles west of Salt Lake City, covering 2,675 square miles in western Utah and eastern Nevada.

• Main organizations at Hill include the Ogden Air Logistics Center, host unit; the 388th Fighter Wing (active Air Force); the 419th Fighter Wing (Air Force Reserve); and the UTTR.

• Hill's Ogden Air Logistics Center provides worldwide engineering and logistics for the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. The center repairs, modifies and maintains the F-16 and A-10 as well as the C-130 Hercules cargo plane. Hill also provides logistics management and repair of the U.S. fleet of strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles.

• Hill's base payroll exceeds $838 million, in 2002 figures. Base officials say Hill's total annual impact on the Utah economy is more than $2.5 billion.

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Source: Hill Air Force Base