Joint Base Langley–Eustis (IATA: LFI/FAF^{[lower-alpha 1]}, ICAO: KLFI/KFAF^{[lower-alpha 2]}, FAA LID: LFI/FAF^{[lower-alpha 3]}) is a United States military facility located adjacent to Hampton and Newport News, Virginia. The base is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's Langley Air Force Base and the United States Army's Fort Eustis which were merged on 1 October 2010. The base was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The legislation ordered the consolidation of the two facilities which were nearby, but separate military installations, into a single Joint Base, one of 12 formed in the United States as a result of the law.

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Joint Base Langley–Eustis
Newport News, Virginia in the United States of America
Aerial view of the airfield of Joint Base Langley–Eustis in 2011
15km 10miles Langley Air Force Base Fort Eustis    Locations of Fort Eustis and Langley Air Force Bases in the Hampton Roads area
JB Langley–Eustis Location of Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia
Coordinates	37°04′58″N 076°21′38″W (Air Base) 37°09′33″N 076°34′30″W (Army Base)
Type	U.S. military Joint Base
Site information
Owner	Department of Defense
Operator	US Air Force
Controlled by	Air Combat Command (ACC)
Condition	Operational
Website	www.jble.af.mil
Site history
Built	1917 (as Langley Field and 1918 (as Camp Abraham Eustis)
In use	2010 (2010) – present (as Joint Base)
Garrison information
Current commander	Colonel Clinton A. Ross (USAF)
Garrison	633rd Air Base Wing (Host)
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: LFI/FAF, ICAO: KLFI/KFAF, FAA LID: LFI/FAF, WMO: 745980
Elevation	8 feet (2 m) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 08/26 10,002 feet (3,049 m) Concrete
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

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Unlike other joint bases that share common perimeters, the two components are geographically separated by 17 miles. In January 2010, the Air Force reactivated the 633rd Air Base Wing to assume host unit and installation support functions at each location.^[2] The installation assumed its full operational capability (FOC) in October 2010.^[3] The 633rd ABW commander is Col Gregory Beaulieu, and Chief Master Sgt. Kennon D. Arnold is its command chief master sergeant. The 633rd ABW is responsible to Air Combat Command.

Langley Air Force Base is the first half of Joint Base Langley–Eustis and is home to JBLE's Air Force units. With the 633rd Air Base Wing as its host unit, this portion of the base is home to three fighter squadrons, one fighter training squadron, and several intelligence units and other non-flying units.

Langley also hosts the Headquarters of Air Combat Command (ACC).

Langley is also home to the F-22 Raptor Demo Team. This team, who travels all over the world performing different maneuvers used in air combat, is used to help recruit for the United States Air Force. Performing in airshows and other special events all around the world, the squadron is the only demonstration team in the world to use the F-22 Raptor.

Fort Eustis, a historic Army installation and the second half of Joint Base Langley–Eustis, is an area to train service members in transportation, aviation maintenance, logistics and deployment doctrine with its diverse landscape and easy access to the James River.

The installation is the training ground for the majority of the transportation MOSs (with the exception of the 88M truck driver specialty located at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.) and all of the helicopter maintenance technicians. It is the home of the Transportation Regiment, and received the transfer of some activities that were conducted at Fort Monroe, which was decommissioned on September 15, 2011 under BRAC.^[4]

Notable units based at Joint Base Langley-Eustis.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]}

Units marked GSU are Geographically Separate Units, which although based at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, are subordinate to a parent unit based at another location.