{"id":315777,"date":"2025-11-13T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/largest-us-air-force-bases-population\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:00:16","slug":"the-7-largest-us-air-force-bases-by-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=315777","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Largest US Air Force Bases By Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the largest <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> bases by population? It is not possible to give a complete and consistent ranking for the largest airfields by population. In some cases, the number of deployed personnel is not disclosed, and with others, it can vary significantly depending on deployments in that region. The population also varies depending on what is being counted. For example, are only active personnel counted, or also civilian contractors and associated families? Breakdowns in these figures are not always given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest US Air Force bases can host over 10,000 active duty personnel, rising much more when reserves, contractors, and dependents are included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,1794,2125,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-base","category-f-15","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315778,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315777\/revisions\/315778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}