[4][5] Initially the post served to train military glider pilots, under the supervision of I Troop Carrier Command, but later trained combat crews to fly the Martin B-26 Marauder and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

Hall's 394th Bombardment Group (the 584th; 585th; 586th; and 587th) were briefly stationed at Ardmore AAF for five weeks in July-August 1943.

[6] The group was then moved again, on August 19, 1943, to Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, Michigan.

Units stationed at the post during some or all of this era included the:[6] The first Lockheed C-130A Hercules put into active USAF service was at Ardmore Air Force Base when plane number 55-023 (named the "City of Ardmore") first went into service as part of the 463d Troop Carrier Wing on December 9, 1956, and later saw action in deployments to Europe, Africa, Japan, Okinawa, and Vietnam (where the plane was nearly destroyed) before finally being decommissioned and placed on static display at Linear Park at Dyess AFB in Abilene, Texas in 1989.

[10] Today, the Department of Defense reports that there are five "medium risk" hazard sites at the former military installation.