United States Forces Azores United States Forces Azores United States Forces Azores (USAFORAZ) is based at Lajes Field, Portugal near Lajes on Terceira Island in the Azores. In 1953, the U.S. Forces Azores Command was organized as subordinate Unified Command under the Command-in-Chief Atlantic. In peacetime, the U.S. Forces Commander (COMUSFORAZ) is assisted by a small joint staff responsible for contingency planning. Members of U.S. Forces Azores provide base and en route support for Department of Defense, allied nation and other aircraft transiting the installation. Air Force units that make up the 65th Air Base Group. In peacetime, a small joint staff composed of
Horta, Azores stopped in Horta on the first leg of his solo circumnavigation, which he chronicled in his 1899 book "Sailing Alone Around the World." In his semi-autobiographical story "The Innocents Abroad", Mark Twain was complimentary about the physical appearance of Horta: However, Twain painted a less complimentary picture of the inhabitants of Horta and Faial at the time: In works by Vitorino Nemésio ("O Corsário das Ilhas"), Raul Brandão ("As ilhas Desconhecidas"), the island is characterized as a focus of the story, while Jules Verne mentioned Horta in descriptions to his fiction tales. Horta, Azores Horta () is a single municipality