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Fort William Henry Harrison's most famous contribution during the 20th century was its 1942 use as the organization and training area for the U. S. Army's 1st Special Service Force, [3] a joint World War II American-Canadian light infantry brigade [4] made famous by the 1966 book, The Devil's Brigade, co-written by Robert H. Adleman and George ...
Constituted 23 June 1942 in the Regular Army as 10th Field Hospital. Activated on 6 July 1942 at Camp Bowie, Texas. Inactivated on 4 November 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts. Reactivated on 25 August 1949 in Germany before being allotted on 5 May 1951 to the Regular Army. Reorganized and redesignated on 15 June 1962 as the 10th ...
Carlson Evans was born and raised on a dairy farm in rural Minnesota and graduated from nursing school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upon graduation, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and served in Vietnam, at age 21, in 1968–1969. She served in the burn unit of the 36th Evacuation Hospital in Vung Tau and at Pleiku in the 71st Evacuation Hospital ...
Fort Ellis, Bozeman, MT, 1871. These installations are classified as historical by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names: Historical Features – Features that no longer exist on the landscape or no longer serve the original purpose. [6] Camp Baker Military Reservation, Meagher County, Montana, 46°40′43″N 111°10′19″W.
Fort Missoula was established as a permanent military post in 1877 and built in response to requests of local townspeople and settlers for protection in the event of conflict with western Montana Indian tribes. It was intended as a major outpost for the region; however, area residents also were quite aware of the payroll, contracts, and ...
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
Helena has been the capital of Montana Territory since 1875 and the state of Montana since 1889. Referendums were held in 1892 and 1894 to determine the state's capital; the result was to keep the capitol in Helena. In 1902, the Montana State Capitol was completed. [55] [56] Until the 1900 census, Helena was the most populous city in the state.
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center ( WRAMC ), officially known as Walter Reed General Hospital ( WRGH) until 1951, was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on 113 acres (46 ha) in Washington, D.C., it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the United States Armed Forces.