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'''Andrews Air Force Base''' ('''Andrews AFB''', '''AAFB''') is the airfield portion of [[Joint Base Andrews]], which is under the jurisdiction of the [[United States Air Force]] (USAF).<ref name=Sperling>{{cite web|last=Sperling |first=Capt. Robert |url=http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123171867 |title=Officials unveil Joint Base Andrews |publisher=Af.mil |access-date=12 July 2013}}</ref> In 2009, Andrews Air Force Base merged with [[Naval Air Facility Washington]] to form [[Joint Base Andrews]]. Andrews, located near [[Morningside, Maryland]] in [[Washington, DC metropolitan area|suburban Washington, D.C.]], is the home base of two Boeing [[VC-25A]] aircraft with the call sign [[Air Force One]] when the president is on board, that serve the [[President of the United States]], and the President is typically flown in and out of Andrews when travelling from Washington, D.C. by plane.<ref name="air force one">{{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9834 |title=Factsheets : Presidential Airlift Group (AMC) ''United States Air Force'' |publisher=Afhra.af.mil |access-date=12 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530200840/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9834 |archive-date=30 May 2013 }}</ref>
The host unit at Andrews is the [[316th Wing]], assigned to the [[Air Force District of Washington]]. It is responsible for maintaining emergency reaction rotary-wing airlift and other National Capital Region contingency response capabilities critical to national security and for organizing, training, equipping and deploying combat-ready forces for Air and Space Expeditionary Forces (AEFs). The 316th Wing also provides installation security, services and airfield management to support the President, Vice President, other U.S. senior leaders and more than 50 tenant organizations and federal agencies.
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=== 2020 census ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Andrews AFB CDP, Maryland – Racial and
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2010<ref name="2010CensusP2">{{Cite web |title=P2
!Pop 2020<ref name="2020CensusP2">{{Cite web |title=P2
!% 2010
!% 2020
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|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race
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