Homestead Air Force Base

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U.S. air base in Florida. Used for the CIA's drug smuggling during the 1980s. 2017-19 site of a camp for unaccompanied children run by a number of deep state operatives.

Homestead Air Reserve Base, previously known as Homestead Air Force Base (Homestead AFB) is located in Miami–Dade County, Florida. As of 2025, it, as well as the headquarters of SOCSOUTH, regional headquarters of the United States Special Operations Command of United States Southern Command. It was a base for the CIA's drug smuggling during the 1980s and 2017-2019 walso was a camp for unaccompanied children run by a number of deep state operatives.

History

The base was opened in 1942, during World War 2.

It was the home base for nuclear bombers from the Strategic Air Command from 1953.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, Homestead AFB was a critical marshaling base for large numbers of USAF SAC bombers, TAC fighters and tactical reconnaissance assets. In 1994 it was moved to the Air Force Reserve and renamed Homestead Air Reserve Station.

Drug smuggling

In 1987, Mike Tolliver, convicted drug smuggler and part-time CIA pilot, told of flying 25,000 pounds of marijuana to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.

Barry Seal piloted a plane, equipped with CIA-installed spy cameras against the Sandinista government, to a Nicaraguan airstrip and brought cocaine back to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. In return for his services, Seal received more than $700,000 and a reduced sentence on pending drug convictions.

Also the pilot Tosh Plumlee told of how a moved weapons to Central America, where his U.S. Air Force cargo plane was emptied of its shipment, and a drug cache was put aboard that aircraft. The Air Force plane then took off for Homestead Air Force Base.

Unaccompanied children

The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children operated between 2018 and 2019. It held several thousand teenagers, ages 13 to 17 mostly from Central America lived in dormitories inside a fenced campus next to Homestead Air Reserve Base. The camp was run by Caliburn International, a security consulting firm, who earlier had President Donald Trump's former Secretary of Homeland Security and Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, on the board.

Caliburn's board of directors includes several other retired former military personnel including Generals Anthony Zinni and Michael Hayden and Admirals Stephen Loftus, Kathleen Martin and James G. Stavridis. Other members of the military–industrial complex on the board included scientist and bureaucrat Donald Kerr and Ambassadors Michael Corbin and Richard Armitage.