Caribou Air Force Station
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 Caribou was an Operational Storage Site for Air Materiel Command (AMC-OSS), one of five in the United States, and the weapons storage and maintenance facility for Loring alert aircraft.
Caribou Air Force Station
The Maintenance Area was under the overall supervision of the Chief, Civil Engineering Division, and served as a base for the maintenance and repair of all buildings, fences, grounds, roads and utilities at the site. Personnel who were assigned to this area operated such facilities as the Sewage Disposal Plant, water supply, Stand-by Power Plant and snow removal equipment. Bench stocks of lumber, builders hardware, paint, parts, pipe and other required component items were stored in the area. The Warehouse and Supply area was adjacent to the Civil Engineering Division Area, and to the Motor Pool. This function of the site processed requisitions issued from the adjacent areas. This area was not separated from the Maintenance Area. The principal building was a permanent, warehouse-type structure (Building No. 101), which housed offices for supply administration, warehousing for base and organizational supplies, and other supplies pertaining to special weapons, office administration and housekeeping supplies. Another permanent structure was used for supply functions and for the Motor Pool, with a dividing partition between (Building No. 107). Clothing was issued here, as well as organizational equipment and cold weather gear. Laundry was collected for shipment to the nearby Air Force base laundry. Certain types of salvage equipment and material were collected in this building. There were no provisions for clothing sales, and site personnel purchased such items at the nearby Air Force base. Since bulk supplies were drawn from the Air Force base each day, no large stocks were kept on hand.