Editing Peterson Space Force Base (section)

=== USAF installation ===
[[File:2021 NORAD and NORTHCOM Sept. 11 Commemoration 210911-F-HL664-024.jpg|thumb|The [[September 11 attacks|9/11 memorial]] at Peterson as it appears after the 20th anniversary commemoration of the event, with wreaths laid, on September 11, 2021.]]

The military base at the municipal field reactivated as an off-base installation of [[Ent Air Force Base]] on 1 January 1951 and was operated by Ent's 4600 Air Base Group.{{r|Mueller}} After being assigned to Peterson on 1 March 1952,{{r|Mueller}} the 4602d [[Air Intelligence Service]] Squadron had subordinate organizations at the "Defense Force Headquarters [on] [[Hamilton Air Force Base]], California, at [[Fairfax Field|Kansas City, Missouri]],{{Specify|reason=Was the DF headquarters at Fairfax Field?|date=October 2013}} and at [[Stewart Air Force Base]]" New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=4602d AISS Unit History Sampler |url=http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl1.htm |format=transcribed excerpts of ''Secret History of 4602D Air Intelligence Squadron''|publisher=Cufon.org|access-date=2013-10-09|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004122638/http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl1.htm|archive-date=2013-10-04}}</ref> The 4600th Group became the [[4600th Air Base Wing]] on 8 April 1958 (moved to Peterson on 18 October 1972).{{r|Johnson}}{{rp|40}}<!--Mueller claims 1 November 1971--> The 4600th was replaced by the [[46th Aerospace Defense Wing]] on 1 April 1975.{{r|Johnson}}<!--Mueller p. 474 claims 15 March 1975--> In January 1968, [[Air Training Command]]'s 3253d Pilot Training Squadron at Peterson Field began light aircraft indoctrination for cadets. These operations moved to the [[United States Air Force Academy]] on 21 March 1974.<ref name=AETChistory>{{cite report|title=A Brief History of Keesler AFB and the 81st Training Wing|url=http://www.keesler.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090203-089.pdf|volume=A-090203-089 |pages=173, 198|access-date=2013-07-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904055045/http://www.keesler.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090203-089.pdf|archive-date=2012-09-04}}</ref>  The military base at Peterson Field gained its own base commander{{Specify|reason=Mueller is not clear on whether the Ent & Peterson base commander, "Col John R. Budner, 4 April 1972", continued as the Peterson commander but not the Ent commander.|date=August 2013}} on 28 February 1975.<!--{{r|Mueller}}-->