- Caribou Air Force Station
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Caribou Air Force Station Part of Air Force Logistics Command
Strategic Air CommandLimestone, Maine 
The station in 1967Coordinates Coordinates: 46°58′9.80″N 67°52′19.77″W / 46.969389°N 67.8721583°W. Built 1951 Built by U.S. Air Force In use 1951-1962 Garrison Limestone, Maine Caribou Air Force Station, also known as North River Depot and East Loring, is a defunct Air Force Station that operated from 1951 until some time when it was absorbed into Loring Air Force Base in 1962. It was located in Limestone, Maine, adjacent to Loring. Between 1951 and 1962 Stony Brook AFS was an Operational Storage Site for Air Materiel Command (AMC-OSS), one of five in the United States, and the nuclear weapons storage and maintenance facility for Loring alert aircraft.
Units Based There
- 3080th Aviation Depot Group
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